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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

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of twisted trilayer graphene and the observed superconductivity that is associated with its flat bands at specific angles, we study trilayer graphene under the influence of different forms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 I. A. Assi , J. P. F. LeBlanc , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

Pristine bilayer graphene behaves in some instances as an insulator with a transport gap of a few meV. This behaviour has been interpreted as the result of an intrinsic electronic instability induced by many-body correlations. Intriguingly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 P. San-Jose , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , K. S. Novoselov , F. Guinea

The creation of moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional crystals has been utilised to engineer quantum material properties in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors. Here, we examine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 J. G. McHugh , V. V. Enaldiev , V. I. Fal'ko

The bands of graphite are extremely sensitive to topological defects which modify the electronic structure. In this paper we found non-dispersive flat bands no farther than 10 meV of the Fermi energy in slightly twisted bilayer graphene as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 E. Suárez Morell , J. D. Correa , P. Vargas , M. Pacheco , Z. Barticevic

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

The electronic and vibrational properties of 2D materials are dramatically altered by the formation of a moir\'e superlattice. The lowest-energy phonon modes of the superlattice are two acoustic branches (called phasons) that describe the…

Two-dimensional multi-layer materials with an induced moir\'e pattern, either due to strain or relative twist between layers, provide a versatile platform for exploring strongly correlated and topological electronic phenomena. While these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

Two-dimensional ferroelectrics can maintain vertical polarization up to room temperature, and are, therefore, promising for next-generation nonvolatile memories. Although natural two-dimensional ferroelectrics are few, moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Renjun Du , Jingkuan Xiao , Di Zhang , Xiaofan Cai , Siqi Jiang , Fuzhuo Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lei Wang , Geliang Yu

We study the electronic structure of multilayer graphene using a $\pi$-orbital continuum model with nearest-neighbor intralayer and interlayer tunneling. Using degenerate state perturbation theory, we show that the low-energy electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Hongki Min , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate the electronic density redistribution of rotated bilayer graphene under a perpendicular electric field, showing that the layers are actually coupled even for large angles. This layer-layer coupling is evidenced by the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 E. Suárez Morell , P. Vargas , L. Chico , L. Brey

The experimental control over the twist angle in twisted bilayer graphene has not been reported and its realistic structure is most likely incommensurate. In this paper, we develop a tight-binding virtual crystal approximation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 D. Ghader , D. Szczȩśniak , A. Khater

We study the energetic stability and the local electronic structure of the general twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) with the top and bottom layers rotated with respect to the middle layer respectively by $\theta$ and $\theta'$. Approximate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xianqing Lin , Cheng Li , Kelu Su , Jun Ni

Novel materials are in great demand for future applications. The discovery of graphene, a one atom thick carbon layer, holds the promise for unique device architectures and functionalities exploiting unprecedented physical phenomena. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 M. F. Craciun , S. Russo , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha

Twisted trilayer graphene is a particularly promising moir\'e superlattice system, due to its tunability, strong superconductivity, and complex electronic symmetry breaking. Motivated by these properties, we study lattice relaxation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Rhine Samajdar , Yanting Teng , Mathias S. Scheurer

Using ab initio calculations, we study the electronic and structural properties of vacancies and hydrogen adsorbates on trilayer graphene. Those defects are found to share similar low-energy electronic features, since they both remove a pz…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-19 Marcos G. Menezes , Rodrigo B. Capaz

Few layer graphene systems such as Bernal stacked bilayer and rhombohedral (ABC-) stacked trilayer offer the unique possibility to open an electric field tunable energy gap. To date, this energy gap has been experimentally confirmed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 T. Khodkov , I Khrapach , M. F. Craciun , S. Russo

Twisted graphene moire superlattice has been demonstrated as an exotic platform for investigating correlated states and nontrivial topology. Among the moire family, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is a tunable flat band system…

The electronic properties of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures can be dramatically altered by varying the relative angle between the layers. This makes it theoretically possible to realize a new class of twistable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Changjian Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

There is an increasing interest in the electronic properties of few layer graphene as it offers a platform to study electronic interactions because the dispersion of bands can be tuned with number and stacking of layers in combination with…