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Moir\'e lattices provide a highly tunable platform for exploring the interplay between electronic correlations and band topology. Introducing a second moir\'e pattern extends this paradigm: interference between the two moir\'e patterns…

The coupling between electrons and phonons is one of the fundamental interactions in solids, underpinning a wide range of phenomena such as resistivity, heat conductivity, and superconductivity. However, direct measurements of this coupling…

We develop a first-principles quantum scheme to calculate the phonon magnetic moment in solids. As a showcase example, we apply our method to study gated bilayer graphene, a material with strong covalent bonds. According to the classical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-05 Xiao-Wei Zhang , Yafei Ren , Chong Wang , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

We investigate the dispersion relation and damping of plasmon modes in a bilayer-monolayer graphene heterostructure with carrier densities and at zero temperature within the random-phase-approximation taking into account the nonhomogeneity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 Nguyen Van Men , Nguyen Quoc Khanh

We theoretically study the dynamic screening properties of bilayer graphene within the random phase approximation assuming quadratic band dispersion and zero gap for the single-particle spectrum. We calculate the frequency dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-18 Rajdeep Sensarma , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

The phonon thermal transport properties of twisted bi-layer graphene are investigated using lattice dynamics and the Boltzmann transport equation. The thermal conductivities of 13.2 and 21.8 twisted configurations are 56% and 36% lower than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Shahid Ahmed , Shadab Alam , Ankit Jain

Phonon dispersion is widely used to elucidate the vibrational properties of materials. As an emerging technique, momentum-resolved vibrational spectroscopy in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) offers an unparalleled approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-07 Aowen Li , Paul Zeiger , Zuxian He , Mingquan Xu , Stephen J. Pennycook , Ján Rusz , Wu Zhou

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits electronic properties that are highly correlated with the size and arrangement of moir\'e patterns. While rigid rotation of two layers creates the topology of moir\'e patterns, local rearrangements of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aditya Dey , Shoieb Ahmed Chowdhury , Tara Peña , Sobhit Singh , Stephen M. Wu , Hesam Askari

A major achievement of the past decade has been the realization of macroscopic quantum systems by exploiting interactions between optical cavities and mechanical resonators. In these systems, phonons are coherently annihilated or created in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 R. De Alba , F. Massel , I. R. Storch , T. S. Abhilash , A. Hui , P. L. McEuen , H. G. Craighead , J. M. Parpia

The role of twist angle ($\theta_t$) in tailoring the physical properties of heterostructures is emerging as a new paradigm in two-dimensional materials. The influence of flat electronic bands near the magic angle ($\sim$1.1$^{\circ}$) on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Darshit Solanki , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , A. K. Sood , Anindya Das

We investigate zero-temperature plasmon modes in a double-layer bilayer graphene structure under a perpendicular electrostatic bias. The numerical results demonstrate that there exist two collective modes which are undamped in the long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Nguyen Van Men , Nguyen Quoc Khanh , Dang Khanh Linh

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking, where the ground state of a system has lower symmetry than the underlying Hamiltonian, is ubiquitous in physics. It leads to multiply-degenerate ground states, each with a different "broken" symmetry labeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan S. Alden , Adam W. Tsen , Pinshane Y. Huang , Robert Hovden , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , David A. Muller , Paul L. McEuen

We study surface plasmons in minimally-twisted gapped bilayer graphene that contains a triangular network of partial dislocations (or AB-BA domain walls) hosting topologically protected one-dimensional electronic states. We show that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Brian S. Vermilyea , Michael M. Fogler

Recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments [K.P. Nuckolls et al., arXiv:2303.00024] have revealed the ubiquity of Kekul\'e charge-density wave order in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Most samples are moderately strained and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-06 Yves H. Kwan , Glenn Wagner , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran

Experiments on graphene bilayers, where the top layer is rotated with respect to the one below, have displayed insulating behavior when the moir\'e bands are partially filled. We calculate the charge distributions in these phases, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-15 Ipsita Mandal , Jia Yao , Erich J. Mueller

The out-of-plane fluctuations of carbon atoms in a graphene sheet have been studied by means of classical molecular dynamic simulations with an empirical force-field as a function of temperature. The Fourier analysis of the out-of-plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-27 R. Ramirez , E. Chacon , C. P. Herrero

The spectrum of electron-phonon complexes in a monolayer graphene is investigated in the presence of a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. Despite the small electron-phonon coupling, usual perturbation theory is inapplicable for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 J. Zhu , S. M. Badalyan , F. Peeters

A simple model for flexural phonons in graphite (and graphene, corresponding to the limiting case of infinite distance between carbon planes) is proposed, in which the local dipolar moment is assumed to be proportional to the curvature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-16 Konstantin L. Metlov