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Twisted van der Waals bilayers provide an ideal platform to study the electron correlation in solids. Of particular interest is the 30 degree twisted bilayer honeycomb lattice system, which possesses an incommensurate Moire pattern and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-19 Yu-Hao Shen , Wen-Yi Tong , He Hu , Jun-Ding Zheng , Chun-Gang Duan

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 J. W. Gonzalez , H. Santos , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We demonstrate the emergence of gapped phases driven by the moir\'{e} superlattice that trivialize the topological states in twisted nodal superconductors. The effect arises from umklapp tunneling between non-adjacent Dirac points in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-24 Kevin P. Lucht , J. H. Pixley , Pavel A. Volkov

We investigate non-adiabatic electron pumping in graphene generated by laser irradiation with linear polarization parallel or perpendicular to the transport direction. Transport is dominated by the spatially asymmetric excitation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Henning Schomerus , Sigmund Kohler

We theoretically investigate optical injection processes, including one- and two-photon carrier injection and two-color coherent current injection, in twisted bilayer graphene with moderate angles. The electronic states are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Ze Zheng , Ying Song , Yu Wei Shan , Wei Xin , Jin Luo Cheng

We construct a theory of charge transport by the surface states of topological insulators in three dimensions. The focus is on the experimentally relevant case when the electron doping is such that the Fermi energy $\epsilon_F$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dimitrie Culcer , E. H. Hwang , Tudor D. Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We theoretically study the spin and charge generation along with the electron transport on a disordered surface of a doped three-dimensional topological insulator/magnetic insulator junction by using Green's function techniques. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Kunitaka Shintani , Yukio Tanaka

Moir\'e superlattices engineer band properties and enable observation of fractal energy spectra of Hofstadter butterfly. Recently, correlated-electron physics hosted by flat bands in small-angle moir\'e systems has been at the foreground.…

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

A model for energy spectrum of superlattice on the base of graphene placed on the striped dielectric substrate is proposed. A direct current component which appears in that structure perpendicularly to pulling electric field under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 D. V. Zav'yalov , V. I. Konchenkov , S. V. Kryuchkov

We investigate a graphene quantum pump, adiabatically driven by two thin potential barriers vibrating around their equilibrium positions. For the highly doped leads, the pumped current per mode diverges at the Dirac point due to the more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Babak Abdollahipour , Ramin Mohammadkhani

Lattice reconstruction in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers gives rise to piezo- and ferroelectric moir\'e potentials for electrons and holes, as well as a modulation of the hybridisation across the bilayer. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 S. J. Magorrian , V. V. Enaldiev , V. Zólyomi , Fábio Ferreira , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

Van Hove singularities enhance many-body interactions and induce collective states of matter ranging from superconductivity to magnetism. In magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, van Hove singularities appear at low energies and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Suvronil Datta , Saisab Bhowmik , Harsh Varshney , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Agarwal , U. Chandni

Tailor-made graphene nanostructures can exhibit symmetry-protected topological boundary states that host localized spin-$1/2$ moments. However, one frequently observes charge transfer on coinage metal substrates, which results in spinless…

We consider the superconducting and Mott-insulating states for the twisted bilayer graphene, modeled as two narrow-band system of electrons with appreciable intraatomic Coulomb interactions. The interaction induces kinetic exchange which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Maciej Fidrysiak , Michał Zegrodnik , Józef Spałek

We propose a two-dimensional (2D) version of Thouless pumping that can be realized by using ultracold atoms in optical lattices. To be specific, we consider a 2D square lattice tight-binding model with an obliquely introduced superlattice.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-03 Fuyuki Matsuda , Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

We show that interlayer current induces topological superconductivity in twisted bilayers of nodal superconductors. A bulk gap opens and achieves its maximum near a ``magic'' twist angle $\theta_\mathrm{MA}$. Chiral edge modes lead to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-17 Pavel A. Volkov , Justin H. Wilson , Kevin Lucht , J. H. Pixley

We present a simple scheme for implementing a one-dimensional (1D) magnetic-flux lattice of ultracold fermionic spin-$1/2$ atoms. The resulting tight-binding model supports gapped and gapless topological phases, and chiral currents for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-02 Y. Deng , R. Lü , L. You

We study the spin current injected by spin pumping into single layer graphene and the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with ferromagnetic contacts using scattering theory. The spin currents pumped into graphene are very distinct from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Takuya Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Kentaro Nomura
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