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In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Allan H. MacDonald

The lower-symmetry trilayer AAB-stacked graphene exhibits rich electronic properties and thus diverse Coulomb excitations. Three pairs of unusual valence and conduction bands create nine available interband excitations for the undoped case,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Chiun-Yan Lin , Bor-Luen Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ming-Fa Lin

Motivated by the indications of high-Tc superconductivity in natural graphite enriched in the rhombohedral phase, we study the band structure of several stacking configurations that combine two of the three graphite structures as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 R. Weht , A. A. Aligia , M. Nunez-Regueiro

A disorder-order transition from amorphous carbon (aC) to layered amorphous graphene (LAG) has been predicted using ab-initio methods. Amorphous carbon at densities close to the graphitic density show a strong proclivity to layer in NVT…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Rajendra Thapa , Chinonso Ugwumadu , Kishor Nepal , Jason Trembly , David Drabold

Rhombohedral (ABC-stacked) multilayer graphene hosts interaction-driven phases enabled by surface flat bands at large displacement fields. In thick flakes, however, strong screening suppresses internal electric fields, raising the question…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Kryštof Kolář , Andrea F. Young , Cyprian Lewandowski

We study localized plasmonic excitations in bilayer graphene (BLG) nanodisks, comparing AA-stacked and AB-stacked BLG and contrasting the results to the case of two monolayers without electronic hybridization. The electrodynamic response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Weihua Wang , Sanshui Xiao , N. Asger Mortensen

Flat bands in graphitic materials emerged as a platform for realizing tunable correlated physics. As a nodal-line semimetal, rhombohedral graphite features flat drumhead surface states in the vicinity of the Dirac points, which carry a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xiaoqian Liu , Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev

Essential properties of multilayer graphenes are diversified by the number of layers and the stacking configurations. For an $N$-layer system, Landau levels are divided into $N$ groups, with each identified by a dominant sublattice…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Jhao-Ying Wu , Yih-Jon Ou , Yu-Huang Chiu , Ming-Fa Lin

We developed the generalized tight-binding model to study the magneto-electronic properties of AAB-stacked trilayer graphene. Three groups of Landau levels (LLs) are characterized by the dominating subenvelope function on distinct…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-02 Thi-Nga Do , Chiun-Yan Lin , Yi-Ping Lin , Po-Hsin Shih , Ming-Fa Lin

When two BN layers are stacked in parallel in an AB or BA arrangement, a spontaneous out-of-plane electric polarization arises due to charge transfer in the out-of-plane B-N bonds. The ferroelectric switching from AB to BA (or BA to AB) can…

In this study, we use first-principles calculations to investigate the stacking-dependent electronic properties of GaSe/GaTe van der Waals heterobilayers. By analyzing five representative stacking configurations--AA, AA$'$, A$'$C, A$'$B,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-24 Hsin-Yi Liu , Jhao-Ying Wu

We show that rhombohedral multilayer graphene supports topological frequency conversion, whereby a fraction of electrons transfer energy between two monochromatic light sources at a quantized rate. The pristine nature and gate tunability of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Iliya Esin , Gil Refael , Frederik Nathan

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

We calculate the dynamical conductivity of AA-stacked bilayer graphene as a function of frequency and in the presence of a finite chemical potential due to charging. Unlike the monolayer, we find a Drude absorption at charge neutrality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

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

Interactions between stacked two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals can radically change their properties, leading to essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. Here we show that monolayers placed on an atomically flat…

We report markedly different transport properties of ABA- and ABC-stacked trilayer graphenes. Our experiments in double-gated trilayer devices provide evidence that a perpendicular electric field opens an energy gap in the ABC trilayer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 S. H. Jhang , M. F. Craciun , S. Schmidmeier , S. Tokumitsu , S. Russo , M. Yamamoto , Y. Skourski , J. Wosnitza , S. Tarucha , J. Eroms , C. Strunk

We present a theoretical study on the electron transmission through the AB-BA stacking boundary in multilayer graphene. Using the tight-binding model and the transfer matrix method, we calculate the electron transmission probability through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

We theoretically investigate light propagation and Anderson localization in one-dimensional disordered superlattices composed of dielectric stacks with graphene sheets in between. Disorder is introduced either on graphene material…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-19 A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres , F. A. Pinheiro

Tight-binding model of the AA-stacked bilayer graphene with screened electron-electron interactions has been studied using the Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations on the original double-layer hexagonal lattice. Instantaneous screened Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-05 A. A. Nikolaev , M. V. Ulybyshev