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A two-dimensional electron system placed in a magnetic field develops Landau levels, where strong Coulomb interactions lead to the appearance of many-body correlated ground states. Quantum numbers similar to the electron spin enable the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Ke Huang , Hailong Fu , Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey , Nasim Alem , Xi Lin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jun Zhu

The edge states of the quantum Hall and fractional quantum Hall effect of a two-dimensional electron gas provide key access to the excitations of the bulk. Here we demonstrate controlled transmission of edge states in bilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Jing Li , Hua Wen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jun Zhu

The most celebrated property of the quantum spin Hall effect is the presence of spin-polarized counter-propagating edge states. This novel edge state configuration has also been predicted to occur in graphene when spin-split electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Patrick Maher , Cory R. Dean , Andrea F. Young , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kenneth L. Shepard , James Hone , Philip Kim

Spins in SiGe quantum dots are promising candidates for quantum bits but are also challenging due to the valley degeneracy which could potentially cause spin decoherence and weak spin-orbital coupling. In this work we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Y. -Y. Liu , L. A. Orona , Samuel F. Neyens , E. R. MacQuarrie , M. A. Eriksson , A. Yacoby

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Louk Rademaker , Paula Mellado

We investigate electronic transport in dual-gated twisted bilayer graphene. Despite the sub-nanometer proximity between the layers, we identify independent contributions to the magnetoresistance from the graphene Landau level spectrum of…

We set up and parametrize a Hubbard model for interacting quantum dots in bilayer graphene and study double dots as the smallest multi-dot system. We demonstrate the tunability of the spin and valley multiplets, Hubbard parameters, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Angelika Knothe , Guido Burkard

Ground state of two-electron quantum dots in single-valley materials like GaAs is always a spin singlet regardless of what the potential and interactions are. This statement cannot be generalized to the multi-valley materials like $n$-doped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-27 D. Miserev , O. P. Sushkov

A magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the chiral two-dimensional electron gas (C2DEG)\ in a Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene quantizes the kinetic energy into a discrete set of Landau levels $N=0,\pm 1,\pm 2,...$ While Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Wenchen Luo , R. Côté , Alexandre Bédard-Vallée

The quantum Hall effect near the charge neutrality point in bilayer graphene is investigated in high magnetic fields of up to 35 T using electronic transport measurements. In the high field regime, the eight-fold degeneracy in the zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Zhao , P. Cadden-Zimansky , Z. Jiang , P. Kim

Bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a rich platform for broken symmetry states stabilized by interactions. In this work we study the phase diagram of BLG in the quantum Hall regime at filling factor $\nu=0$ within the Hartree-Fock approximation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Ganpathy Murthy , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert Fertig

In a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer, an electronic state in Landau level $% N=0$ is described by its guiding-center index $X$ (in the Landau gauge) and by its valley, spin, and orbital indices $\xi =\pm K,\sigma =\pm 1,$ and $% n=0,1.$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 J. Lambert , R. Côté

We demonstrate theoretically that quantum dots in bilayers of graphene can be realized. A position-dependent doping breaks the equivalence between the upper and lower layer and lifts the degeneracy of the positive and negative momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Milton Pereira , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We report on an experimental study of spin and valley blockade in two-electron bilayer graphene (BLG) double quantum dots (DQDs) and explore the limits set by asymmetric orbitals and electronelectron interactions. The results obtained from…

We report on microscopic measurements of the low-energy electronic structures both at zigzag and armchair edges of bilayer graphene using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM and STS). We have found that, both in the absence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Long-Jing Yin , Yu Zhang , Jia-Bin Qiao , Si-Yu Li , Lin He

We perform transport measurements in high quality bilayer graphene pnp junctions with suspended top gates. At a magnetic field B=0, we demonstrate band gap opening by an applied perpendicular electric field, with an On/Off ratio up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lei Jing , Jairo Velasco , Philip Kratz , Gang Liu , Wenzhong Bao , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

The chiral two-dimensional electron gas in Landau levels $\left\vert N\right\vert >0$ of a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer has a valley-pseudospin Ising quantum Hall ferromagnetic behavior at odd filling factors $\nu _{N}=1,3$ of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Wenchen Luo , R. Côté

We report a well-resolved 0.7 conductance anomaly at $G = 0.7\times(2e^2/h)$ in bilayer graphene/WSe$_2$ quantum point contacts. Proximity-enhanced spin-orbit coupling splits the four-fold ground state of bilayer graphene into…

We identify states favored by Coulomb interactions projected onto the Wannier basis of the four narrow bands of the "magic angle" twisted bilayer graphene. At the filling of two electrons/holes per moire unit cell, such interactions favor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-20 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek

Landau level gaps are important parameters for understanding electronic interactions and symmetry-broken processes in bilayer graphene (BLG). Here we present transport spectroscopy measurements of LL gaps in double-gated suspended BLG with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Velasco , Y. Lee , Z. Zhao , Lei Jing , P. Kratz , Marc Bockrath , C. N. Lau