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Recent experiments on magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have discovered correlated insulating behavior and superconductivity at a fractional filling of an isolated narrow band. In this paper we show that magic-angle bilayer graphene…

We review recent work on superlattices in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We highlight the role of the quasiparticle chirality in generating new Dirac fermion modes with tunable anisotropic velocities in one dimensional (1D) superlattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

A universal set of third--nearest neighbour tight--binding (TB) parameters is presented for calculation of the quasiparticle (QP) dispersion of $N$ stacked $sp^2$ graphene layers ($N=1... \infty$) with $AB$ stacking sequence. The QP bands…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Grüneis , C. Attaccalite , L. Wirtz , H. Shiozawa R. Saito , T. Pichler , A. Rubio

Graphene is a 2-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The low-energy electronic excitations in this 2D crystal are described by massless Dirac fermions that have a linear dispersion relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Peter Rickhaus , Romain Maurand , Ming-Hao Liu , Markus Weiss , Klaus Richter , Christian Schönenberger

A-B stacked bilayer graphene has massive electron and hole-like excitations with zero gap in the nearest-neighbor hopping approximation. In equilibrium, the quasiparticle occupation approximately follows the usual Fermi-Dirac distribution.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Dung X. Nguyen , Glenn Wagner , Steven H. Simon

Pristine, single-crystalline graphene displays a unique collection of remarkable electronic properties that arise from its two-dimensional, honeycomb structure. Using in-situ low-energy electron microscopy, we show that when deposited on…

We calculate the single-particle spectral function for doped bilayer graphene in the low energy limit, described by two parabolic bands with zero band gap and long range Coulomb interaction. Calculations are done using thermal Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-18 Andro Sabashvili , Stellan Östlund , Mats Granath

Quasicrystals exhibit long-range order but lack translational symmetry. When grown as single crystals, they possess distinctive and unusual properties owing to the absence of grain boundaries. Unfortunately, conventional methods such as…

In this note, we calculate the electronic properties of a realistic atomistic model of amorphous graphene. The model contains odd membered rings, particularly five and seven membered rings and no coordination defects. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-04 V. Kapko , D. A. Drabold , M. F. Thorpe

The electronic band structure of as-grown and doped graphene grown on the carbon face of SiC is studied by high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, where we observe both rotations between adjacent layers and AB-stacking.…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-30 David A. Siegel , Choongyu Hwang , Alexei V. Fedorov , Alessandra Lanzara

A DFT-based investigation of rhombohedral (ABC)-type graphene stacks in finite static electric fields is presented. Electronic band structures and field-induced charge densities are compared with related literature data as well as with own…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Ruijuan Xiao , F. Tasnádi , K. Koepernik , J. W. F. Venderbos , M. Richter , M. Taut

Theoretical progress in graphene physics has largely relied on the application of a simple nearest-neighbor tight-binding model capable of predicting many of the electronic properties of this material. However, important features that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Z. M. Abd El-Fattah , M. A. Kher-Elden , I. Piquero-Zulaica , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , J. E. Ortega

Bilayer graphene is a highly promising material for electronic and optoelectronic applications since it is supporting massive Dirac fermions with a tuneable band gap. However, no consistent picture of the gap's effect on the optical and…

Quasicrystals are long-range ordered but not periodic, representing an interesting middle ground between order and disorder. We experimentally and numerically study the ground state of non- and weakly-interacting bosons in an eightfold…

Topological properties of crystals and quasicrystals is a subject of recent and growing interest. This Letter reports an experiment where, for certain quasicrystals, these properties can be directly retrieved from diffraction. We directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 A. Dareau , E. Levy , M. Bosch Aguilera , R. Bouganne , E. Akkermans , F. Gerbier , J. Beugnon

Transition-metal-based Heusler semiconductors are promising materials for a variety of applications ranging from spintronics to thermoelectricity. Employing the $GW$ approximation within the framework of the FLAPW method, we study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-01 M. Tas , E. Sasioglu , I. Galanakis , C. Friedrich , S. Blugel

The extended quasiparticle picture is adapted to non-Fermi systems by suggesting a Pad\'e approximation which interpolates between the known small scattering-rate expansion and the deviation from the Fermi energy. The first two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-08 K. Morawetz

We present a comprehensive first-principles study of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) for a wide range of twist angles, with a focus on structural and electronic properties. By employing density functional theory (DFT) with an optimized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

Using a strategy that may be applied in theory or in experiments, we identify the regime in which a model binary soft matter mixture forms quasicrystals. The system is described using classical density functional theory combined with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-22 A. Scacchi , W. R. C. Somerville , D. M. A. Buzza , A. J. Archer

The electronic properties of graphene under any arbitrary uniaxial strain field are obtained by an exact mapping of the corresponding tight-binding Hamiltonian into an effective one-dimensional modulated chain. For a periodic modulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gerardo G. Naumis , Pedro Roman-Taboada