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The phonon spectra of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) are analyzed for a series of 692 twisting angle values in the $[0,30{\degree}]$ range. The evolution of the phonon bandstructure as a function of twist angle is examined using a band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Michael Lamparski , Benoit Van Troeye , Vincent Meunier

We present the full in-plane phonon dispersion of graphite obtained from inelastic x-ray scattering, including the optical and acoustic branches, as well as the mid-frequency range between the $K$ and $M$ points in the Brillouin zone, where…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mohr , J. Maultzsch , E. Dobardzic , S. Reich , I. Milosevic , M. Damnjanovic , A. Bosak , M. Krisch , C. Thomsen

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits extremely low Fermi velocities for electrons, with the speed of sound surpassing the Fermi velocity. This regime enables the use of TBG for amplifying vibrational waves of the lattice through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Iliya Esin , Ilya Esterlis , Eugene Demler , Gil Refael

We report on a double moir\'e system consisting of four graphene layers, where the top and bottom pairs form small-twist-angle bilayer graphene, and the middle interface has a large rotational mismatch. This system shows clear signatures of…

Using the tight-binding model, we report a gap opening in the energy spectrum of the twisted bilayer graphene under the application of pressure, that can be further amplified by the presence of a perpendicular bias voltage. The valley edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 V. G. M. Duarte , D. R. da Costa , N. M. R. Peres , L. K. Teles , A. J. Chaves

The interplay between substrate interactions and electron-phonon coupling in two-dimensional (2D) materials presents a significant challenge in understanding and controlling their electronic properties. Here, we present a comparative study…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-15 Amjad Al Taleb , Wen Wan , Giorgio Benedek , Miguel M. Ugeda , Daniel Farías

We determine from first-principles the finite-temperature properties--linewidths, line shifts, and lifetimes--of the key vibrational modes that dominate inelastic losses in graphitic materials. In graphite, the phonon linewidth of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-25 Nicola Bonini , Michele Lazzeri , Nicola Marzari , Francesco Mauri

Band engineering in twisted bilayers of the five generic two-dimensional Bravais networks is demonstrated. We first derive symmetry-based constraints on the interlayer coupling, which helps us to predict and understand the shape of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Toshikaze Kariyado , Ashvin Vishwanath

Displacement fields are one of the main tuning knobs employed to engineer flat electronic band dispersions in twisted van der Waals multilayers. Here, we show that electric fields can also be used to tune the phonon dispersion of moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Alejandro Ramos-Alonso , Benjamin Remez , Daniel Bennett , Rafael M. Fernandes , Hector Ochoa

The introduction of 'twist' or relative rotation between two atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) membranes gives rise to periodic Moire potential, leading to a substantial altercation of the band structure of the planar assembly. While most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Phanibhusan S Mahapatra , Bhaskar Ghawri , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Subroto Mukerjee , Arindam Ghosh

We show that the insulating states of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene support a series of collective modes corresponding to local particle-hole excitations on triangular lattice sites. Our theory is based on a continuum model of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-09 Ajesh Kumar , Ming Xie , A. H. MacDonald

Using first-principles methods, we show that an applied perpendicular electric field $E$ breaks the inversion symmetry of AB-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG), thereby slightly mixing the two in-plane high-energy optical vibrations ($E_g$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Stein , D. Hughes , Jia-An Yan

Interference between different possible paths lies at the heart of quantum physics. Such interference between coupled discrete and continuum states of a system can profoundly change its interaction with light as seen in Fano resonance. Here…

Collective excitations of coupled electron-phonon systems are calculated for both monolayer and bilayer graphene, taking into account the non-perturbative Coulomb coupling between electronic excitations in graphene and the substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-12 E. H. Hwang , Rajdeep Sensarma , S. Das Sarma

We show how to include the Jahn-Teller coupling of \mo phonons to the electrons in the continuum model formalism which describes small-angle twisted bilayer graphene. These phonons, which strongly couple to the valley degree of freedom, are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-03 M. Angeli , M. Fabrizio

Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we investigate electron-phonon heat transfer rate in a suspended bilayer graphene. Contrary to monolayer graphene with heat flow via three-body supercollision scattering, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Antti Laitinen , Manohar Kumar , Mika Oksanen , Bernard Plaçais , Pauli Virtanen , Pertti Hakonen

The electric structure of twisted bilayer GeSe, which shows a rectangular moir\'{e} pattern, is analyzed using a $\bm{k}\cdot\bm{p}$ type effective continuum model. The effective model is constructed on the basis of the the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Manato Fujimoto , Toshikaze Kariyado

Over the years, great efforts have been devoted in introducing a sizable and tunable band gap in graphene for its potential application in next-generation electronic devices. The primary challenge in modulating this gap has been the absence…

While a typical material exhibits field induced currents only at the boundary, a uniform out-of-plane magnetic field applied to two mutually rotated layers of graphene is shown to result in an ordered array of permanent current loops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 D. Weckbecker , M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , W. Landgraf , S. Leitherer , O. Pankratov , S. Sharma , V. Meded , S. Shallcross

The origin of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene -- whether phonon-driven or electron-driven -- remains unresolved, in part due to the absence of a quantitative and efficient model for electron-phonon coupling (EPC). In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Ziyan Zhu , Thomas P. Devereaux