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An odd number of gapless Dirac fermions is guaranteed to exist at a surface of a strong topological insulator. We show that in a thin-film geometry and under external bias, electron-hole pairs that reside in these surface states can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-15 B. Seradjeh , J. E. Moore , M. Franz

A number of interesting properties of graphene and graphite are postulated to derive from the peculiar bandstructure of graphene. This bandstructure consists of conical electron and hole pockets that meet at a single point in momentum (k)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Thomas Seyller , K. Horn , Eli Rotenberg

Dirac fermions interacting with a cylindrically symmetric quantum dot potential created in single and bilayer graphene are not confined but form quasi-bound states. The broadening of these quasi-bound states (i. e. the inverse of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

An exact mapping of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for a graphene's nanoribbon under any armchair uniaxial strain into an effective one-dimensional system is presented. As an application, for a periodic modulation we have found a gap opening…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

A twisted graphene bilayer exhibits a triangular Moir\'e pattern in the local stacking, that smoothly alternates between the three basic types AA', AB' and BA'. Under an interlayer bias U, the latter two types develop a spectral gap,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

The surface of W(110) exhibits a Dirac-cone-like surface state with $d$ character within a spin-orbit-induced symmetry gap. As a function of wave vector parallel to the surface, it shows nearly massless energy dispersion and a pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Miyamoto , A. Kimura , K. Kuroda , T. Okuda , K. Shimada , H. Namatame , M. Taniguchi , M. Donath

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Twisted bilayer graphenes with magical angle exhibit strongly correlated electronic properties because of the isolated flat band at the Fermi level. We studied the twisted bilayer graphene with substrates on both layers. The substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Ma Luo

Bilayer graphene (two coupled graphitic monolayers arranged according to Bernal stacking) is a two-dimensional gapless semiconductor with a peculiar electronic spectrum different from the Dirac spectrum in the monolayer material. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kechedzhi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , E. McCann , B. L. Altshuler

Plasmon excitations in free-standing graphene and graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) heterostructure are studied using linear-response time-dependent density functional theory within the random phase approximation. Within a single…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-18 Pengfi Li , Xinguo Ren , Lixin He

When light is incident on a medium with spatially disordered index of refraction, interference effects lead to near-perfect reflection when the number of dielectric interfaces is large, so that the medium becomes a "transparent mirror." We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Sandeep Joy , Saad Khalid , Brian Skinner

We study the electric-field tunable electronic properties of phosphorene thin films, using the framework of density functional theory. We show that phosphorene thin films offer a versatile material platform to study two dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Barun Ghosh , Bahadur Singh , R. Prasad , Amit Agarwal

First principles calculations, employed to address the properties of polycrystalline graphene, indicate that the electronic structure of tilt grain boundaries in this system displays a rather complex evolution towards graphene bulk, as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Joice da Silva Araujo , R. W. Nunes

We study the electronic properties of twisted bilayers graphene in the tight-binding approximation. The interlayer hopping amplitude is modeled by a function, which depends not only on the distance between two carbon atoms, but also on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , Franco Nori

Using the tight-binding model, we report a gap opening in the energy spectrum of the twisted bilayer graphene under the application of pressure, that can be further amplified by the presence of a perpendicular bias voltage. The valley edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 V. G. M. Duarte , D. R. da Costa , N. M. R. Peres , L. K. Teles , A. J. Chaves

We theoretically study the energy and optical absorption spectra of alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) under a perpendicular electric field. We obtain analytically the low-energy effective Hamiltonian of ATMG up to pentalayer in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Kyungjin Shin , Yunsu Jang , Jiseon Shin , Jeil Jung , Hongki Min

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts a rich landscape of electronic phases arising from the interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and nontrivial band topology. While the flat bands near zero energy are central to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

We report measurements of the cyclotron mass in graphene for carrier concentrations n varying over three orders of magnitude. In contrast to the single-particle picture, the real spectrum of graphene is profoundly nonlinear so that the…

We show that delaminations in bilayer graphene (BLG) with electrostatically induced interlayer asymmetry can provide one with ballistic channels for electrons with energies inside the electrostatically induced BLG gap. These channels are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 T. L. M. Lane , M. Anđelković , J. R. Wallbank , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters , V. I. Fal'ko

We study the propagation of in-plane elastic waves in a soft thin strip; a specific geometrical and mechanical hybrid framework which we expect to exhibit Dirac-like cone. We separate the low frequencies guided modes (typically 100 Hz for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-30 Maxime Lanoy , Fabrice Lemoult , Antonin Eddi , Claire Prada