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We present measurements of quantized conductance in electrostatically induced quantum point contacts in bilayer graphene. The application of a perpendicular magnetic field leads to an intricate pattern of lifted and restored degeneracies…

We propose a new system where electron and hole states are electrostatically confined into a quantum ring in bilayer graphene. These structures can be created by tuning the gap of the graphene bilayer using nanostructured gates or by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Zarenia , J. M. Pereira , F. M. Peeters , G. A. Farias

Artificial molecular states of double quantum dots defined in bilayer graphene are studied with the atomistic tight-binding and its low-energy continuum approximation. We indicate that the extended electron wave functions have opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

Electrostatically confined quantum dots in bilayer graphene have shown potential as building blocks for quantum technologies. To operate the dots, e.g., as qubits, a precise understanding and control of the confined states and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Dennis Mayer , Angelika Knothe

Transport measurements through a few-electron circular quantum dot in bilayer graphene display bunching of the conductance resonances in groups of four, eight and twelve. This is in accordance with the spin and valley degeneracies in…

We report on transport measurements of dual-gated, single-layer graphene devices in the quantum Hall regime, allowing for independent control of the filling factors in adjoining regions. Progress in device quality allows us to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 F. Amet , J. R. Wiliams , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The few-layer graphene quantum dot provides a promising platform for quantum computing with both spin and valley degrees of freedom. Gate-defined quantum dots in particular can avoid noise from edge disorders. In connection with the recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Haonan Xiong , Wentao Jiang , Yipu Song , Luming Duan

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

We study ground states and excited states in semiconductor quantum dots containing 1 to 12 electrons. For the first time, it is possible to identify the quantum numbers of the states in the excitation spectra and make a direct comparison to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. P. Kouwenhoven , T. H. Oosterkamp , M. W. S. Danoesastro , M. Eto , D. G. Austing , T. Honda , S. Tarucha

We report on finite bias spectroscopy measurements of the two-electron spectrum in a gate defined bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum dot for varying magnetic fields. The spin and valley degree of freedom in BLG give rise to multiplets of 6…

We demonstrate that excited states in single-layer graphene quantum dots can be detected via direct transport experiments. Coulomb diamond measurements show distinct features of sequential tunneling through an excited state. Moreover, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Schnez , F. Molitor , C. Stampfer , J. Guettinger , I. Shorubalko , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We study the low energy edge states of bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. Several possible simple boundaries geometries related to zigzag edges are considered. Tight-binding calculations reveal three types of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Victoria Mazo , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig

Quantum states in graphene are four-fold degenerate: two fold in spins, and two fold in valleys.Both degrees of freedom can be utilized for qubit preparations. In our bilayer graphene quantumdots, we demonstrate that the valley g-factorgv,…

By applying the infinite-mass boundary condition, we analytically calculate the confined states and the corresponding wave functions of AA-stacked bilayer graphene quantum {dots} in the presence of an uniform magnetic field $B$. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-29 Abdelhadi Belouad , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal

We determine the optical properties of gated bilayer graphene quantum dots with trigonal warping (TW) of single-particle energy spectra. The lateral structure of metallic gates confines electrons and holes in a quantum dot (QD)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Matthew Albert , Daniel Miravet , Yasser Saleem , Katarzyna Sadecka , Marek Korkusinski , Gabriel Bester , Pawel Hawrylak

Spin transitions driven by a periodically varying electric potential in dilute fluorinated graphene quantum dots are investigated. Flakes of monolayer graphene are considered as well as electrostatic electron traps induced in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

We study topological bound states in quantum dots defined by an electric field in bilayer graphene. An external field is perpendicular to the bilayer and changes sign in a finite region that defines the quantum dot. The electric field opens…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

Bilayer graphene provides a unique platform to explore the rich physics in quantum Hall effect. The unusual combination of spin, valley and orbital degeneracy leads to interesting symmetry broken states with electric and magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Manabendra Kuiri , Anindya Das

Interacting electrons in flat bands give rise to a variety of quantum phases. One fundamental aspect of such states is the ordering of the various flavours - such as spin or valley - that the electrons can undergo and the excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Gelareh Farahi , Cheng-Li Chiu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zlatko Papic , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani