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Stacking geometry in multilayer graphene (MLG) provides an interesting degree of freedom to engineer its electronic structure near the Fermi level, wherein the linear bands in single layer graphene could retain or evolve into parabolic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Fred Sun , Jia-An Yan

Heterostructures of atomically-thin materials have attracted significant interest owing to their ability to host novel electronic properties fundamentally distinct from their constituent layers. In the case of graphene on boron nitride, the…

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene, often feature flat electronic bands that enable the observation of electron correlation effects. In this work, we study the electronic structure of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Valerio Vitale , Kemal Atalar , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

A double moir\'e superlattice can be realized by stacking three layers of atomically thin two-dimensional materials with designer interlayer twisting or lattice mismatches. In this novel structure, atomic reconstruction of constituent…

There is a recent upsurge of interests in flat bands in condensed-matter systems and the consequences for magnetism and superconductivity. This article highlights the physics, where peculiar quantum-mechanical mechanisms for the physical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Hideo Aoki

Altermagnets feature unconventional magnetism due to their momentum-dependent spin splitting purely driven by magnetic order, for which a variety of transition-metal-based d-wave altermagnets have been proposed. However, carbon-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Cuiju Yu , Jose L. Lado

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) provides us with a large rotational freedom to explore new physics and novel device applications, but many of its basic properties remain unresolved. Here we report the synthesis and systematic Raman study of…

We propose that constructing a molecule super-lattice on a superconducting ultrathin film is a promising way to manipulate superconductivity in experiment. We theoretically study superconductivity in a molecule graphene system, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Jin-Hua Gao , Yi Zhou , Fu-Chun Zhang

Flat bands are of significant interest due to their potential for energy confinement and their ability to enable strongly correlated physics. Incorporating topology into flatband systems further enhances flatband mode robustness against…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yongsheng Liang , Jingyan Zhan , Shiqi Xia , Daohong Song , Zhigang Chen

This work presents a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in graphene-related systems using the first-principles method. The geometric and electronic properties are greatly diversified by the number of layers, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Ngoc Thanh Thuy Tran , Shih-Yang Lin , Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

The structures and electron properties of new superlattices formed on graphene by adsorbed hydrogen molecules are theoretically described. It has been shown that superlattices of the (n, 0) zigzag type with linearly arranged pairs of H…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Chernozatonskii , P. B. Sorokin , E. E. Belova , J. Bruning , A. S. Fedorov

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

Strain-engineered graphene has garnered much attention recently owing to the possibilities of creating substantial energy gaps enabled by pseudo-magnetic fields. While theoretical works proposed the possibility of creating large-area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 M. Luo , H. Sun , Z. Qi , K. Lu , M. Chen , D. Kang , Y. Kim , D. Burt , X. Yu , C. Wang , Y. D. Kim , H. Wang , Q. -J. Wang , D. Nam

The understanding of strongly-correlated materials, and in particular unconventional superconductors, has puzzled physicists for decades. Such difficulties have stimulated new research paradigms, such as ultra-cold atom lattices for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Yuan Cao , Valla Fatemi , Shiang Fang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Two-dimensional (2D) bilayers, twisted to particular angles to display electronic flat bands, are being extensively explored for physics of strongly correlated 2D systems. However, the similar rich physics of one-dimensional (1D) strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Sunny Gupta , Henry Yu , Boris I. Yakobson

Two-dimensional quantum materials offer a robust platform for investigating the emergence of symmetry-broken ordered phases owing to the high tuneability of their electronic properties. For instance, the ability to create new electronic…

Topological flat bands, such as the band in twisted bilayer graphene, are becoming a promising platform to study topics such as correlation physics, superconductivity, and transport. In this work, we introduce a generic approach to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Da-Shuai Ma , Yuanfeng Xu , Christie S. Chiu , Nicolas Regnault , Andrew A. Houck , Zhida Song , B. Andrei Bernevig

We study topological effects in an one-dimensional plasmonic crystal formed by the screened plasmons emerging in a periodically modulated graphene sheet, placed on top of a metallic substrate. To this end, we develop the theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 André Octávio Soares , Christos Tserkezis , N. M. R. Peres

Flat bands with small energy dispersion can give rise to strongly correlated electronic and topological phases, especially when located at the Fermi level. Whilst flat bands have been experimentally realized in two-dimensional (2D) twisted…