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The interplay of strain engineering and photon-assisted tunneling of electrons in graphene is considered for giving rise to atypical transport phenomena. The combination of uniaxial strain and a time-periodic potential barrier helps to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Parisa Majari , Diego Espitia , Francois Leyvraz , Thomas Stegmann

We have used ab initio density functional theory, incorporating van der Waals corrections, to study twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) where Stone-Wales defects or monovacancies are introduced in one of the layers. We compare these results to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-30 Kanchan Ulman , Shobhana Narasimhan

We present a theoretical study of the intrinsic plasmonic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) as a function of the twist angle $\theta$ (and other microscopic parameters such as temperature and filling factor). Our calculations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cavicchi , Iacopo Torre , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini

Brownian dynamics of Dirac fermions in twisted bilayer graphene is investigated within the framework of semiclassical relativistic Langevin equations. We find that under the influence of orthogonal, commensurate ac drives in the periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Abdullah Yar

The emergence of alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) as a generalization of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) raises the question - in what important ways do these systems differ? Here, we utilize ab-initio relaxation and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Patrick J. Ledwith , Eslam Khalaf , Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras , Ashvin Vishwanath

We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vit Jakubsky , Raul Valencia-Torres

Flat band electronic modes are responsible for superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) rotated at magic angles. From there other magic angles can be found for any multilayered twisted graphene systems. Eventually, this lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

Exotic electronic physics including correlated insulating states and fractional Chern insulators have been observed in twisted bilayer graphene in a magnetic field when the Fermi velocity vanishes, however a question remains as to the…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with its flat bands provides a rich platform for exploring emergent electronic orders. Similarly, periodically buckled monolayer graphene has been proposed as a tunable alternative for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Jannes van Poppelen , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study the commensurately-tilted bilayer graphene in the tight-binding model with changing the interlayer distance, which can be tuned by pressure. We find that at the commensurately-tilted bilayer graphene with moderate rotating angles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Aya Yamada , Yasumasa Hasegawa

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

In this work the effects of defects in the superconducting phases of the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) are investigated. A will-accepted low energy effective model and a non-magnetic impurity potential to mimic defects are employed.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-08 Hui Yang , Zhi-Qiang Gao , Fa Wang

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

We investigate correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) by the exact diagonalization method applied to the extended Hubbard model with interaction parameters recently evaluated in the realistic effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Masayuki Ochi , Mikito Koshino , Kazuhiko Kuroki

Recent studies have shown that moir\'{e} flat bands in a twisted bilayer graphene(TBG) can acquire nontrivial Berry curvatures when aligned with hexagonal boron nitride substrate [1, 2], which can be manifested as a correlated Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Cheng-Ping Zhang , Jiewen Xiao , Benjamin T. Zhou , Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , Binghai Yan , K. T. Law

Bilayer graphene (BLG) is semiconductor whose band gap and properties can be tuned by various methods such as doping or applying gate voltage. Here, we show how to tune electronic properties of BLG by intercalation of transition metal (TM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Srimanta Pakhira , Kevin P. Lucht , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

Tunneling conductance between two bilayer graphene (BLG) sheets separated by 2 nm-thick insulating barrier was measured in two devices with the twist angles between BLGs less than 1{\deg}. At small bias voltages, the tunneling occurs with…

Andreev reflection in graphene is special since it can be of two types- retro or specular. Specular Andreev reflection (SAR) dominates when the position of the Fermi energy in graphene is comparable to or smaller than the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Abhiram Soori , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Anindya Das , Subroto Mukerjee

Exact conditions for anti-Klein transmission zeros are found analytically with a 4-component continuum approach which includes trigonal warping. Anti-Klein tunneling occurs at oblique incidence on steps and barriers with soft and hard walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 P. A. Maksym , H. Aoki