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We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov

Electronic structures of the zigzag bilayer graphite nanoribbons(Z-BGNR) with various ribbon width $N$ are studied within the tight binding approximation. Neglecting the inter-layer hopping amplitude $\gamma_4$, which is an order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

It has been recently postulated, that the strongly correlated flat bands of magicangle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) can host coexisting heavy and light carriers. While transport and spectroscopic measurements have shown hints of this…

Correlated insulators and superconductivity have been observed in "magic-angle" twisted bilayer graphene, when the nearly flat bands close to neutrality are partially filled. While a momentum-space continuum model accurately describes these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-04 Hoi Chun Po , Liujun Zou , T. Senthil , Ashvin Vishwanath

Bilayer graphene cavities where electrons are confined within finite graphene flakes provide an alluring platform not only for the future nanoelectronic devices owing to the tunable energy gap but also for investigating the quantum nature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Jucheng Lin , Yicheng Zhuang , Anton M. Graf , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Eric J. Heller

We have measured the magneto-resistance of freely suspended high-mobility bilayer graphene. For magnetic fields $B>1$ T we observe the opening of a field induced gap at the charge neutrality point characterized by a diverging resistance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 H. J. van Elferen , A. Veligura , E. V. Kurganova , U. Zeitler , J. C. Maan , N. Tombros , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

The effect of a randomly fluctuating gap, created by a random staggered potential, is studied in a monolayer and a bilayer of graphene. The density of states, the one-particle scattering rate and transport properties (diffusion coefficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 K. Ziegler

We study spin dependent transport through a magnetic bilayer graphene nanojunction configured as two dimensional normal/ferromagnetic/normal structure where the gate-voltage is applied on the layers of ferromagnetic graphene. Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

Two-dimensional van-der-Waals materials offer a highly tunable platform for engineering electronic band structures and interactions. By employing techniques such as twisting, gating, or applying pressure, these systems enable precise…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-04 Bilal Hawashin , Michael M. Scherer , Lukas Janssen

We study the single- and many-particle properties of a two-leg ladder model threaded by a flux with the legs coupled by a spatially varying term. Although a priori unrelated to twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the model is found to have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 Yixuan Huang , Pavan Hosur , Hridis K. Pal

The discovery of different phases as a result of correlations, especially in low-dimensional materials, has been always an exciting and fundamental subject of research. Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have revealed reentrant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Yury Sherkunov , Joseph J. Betouras

We generalize the continuum model for Moir\'e structures made from twisted graphene layers, in order to include lattice relaxation and the formation of channels at very small (marginal) twist angles. We show that a precise description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We present simple models to describe the in-plane and the out-of-plane lattice relaxation in twisted bilayer and symmetrically twisted trilayer graphene. Analytical results and series expansions show that for twist angles {\theta} > 1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Adrián Ceferino , Francisco Guinea

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) has recently emerged as a versatile platform for studying a variety of exotic transport phenomena. Here, we present a theoretical study of near-field thermal radiation between suspended TBLG with a focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Fuwei Yang , Bai Song

The possibility of designing nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) based on relative motion or vibrations of graphene layers is analyzed. Ab initio and empirical calculations of the potential relief of interlayer interaction energy in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Andrey M. Popov , Yurii E. Lozovik , Boris V. Potapkin

Twisted Bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to feature isolated and relatively flat bands near charge neutrality, when tuned to special magic angles. However, different criteria for the magic angle such as the vanishing of Dirac speed, minimal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Grigory Tarnopolsky , Alex J. Kruchkov , Ashvin Vishwanath

The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model, introduced in \cite{Bistritzer2011}, attempts to capture the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), even at incommensurate twist angles, by an effective periodic model over the bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alexander B. Watson , Tianyu Kong , Allan H. MacDonald , Mitchell Luskin

We investigate the correlated electrons in the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene by using the slave-rotor mean-field theory. Owing to the extended figure of Wannier orbitals, we study the two-orbital cluster Hubbard model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Shin-Ming Huang , Yi-Ping Huang , Ting-Kuo Lee

The recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene emerges from insulating states believed to arise from electronic correlations. While there have been many proposals to explain the insulating behaviour, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-06 J. M. Pizarro , M. J. Calderón , E. Bascones

Parallel ("nested") regions of a Fermi surface (FS) drive instabilities of the electron fluid, for example the spin density wave in elemental chromium. In one-dimensional materials, the FS is trivially fully nested (a single nesting vector…