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We propose a novel periodicity-free unfolding method of the electronic energy spectra. Our new method solves a serious problem that calculated electronic band structure strongly depends on the choice of the simulation cell, i.e.,…

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The charge susceptibility of twisted bilayer graphene is investigated in the Dirac cone, respectively random-phase approximation. For small enough twist angles $\theta\lesssim 2^\circ$ we find weakly Landau damped interband plasmons, i.~e.,…

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We investigate the contribution of the low-energy electronic excitations towards the Raman spectrum of bilayer graphene for the incoming photon energy Omega >> 1eV. Starting with the four-band tight-binding model, we derive an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , O. Kashuba , V. I. Fal'ko

Twisted graphene bilayers show a complex electronic structure, further modified by interaction effects. The main features can be obtained from effective models, which make use a few phenomenological parameters. We analyze the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Since their discovery, graphene-based systems represent an exceptional playground to explore the emergence of peculiar quantum effects. The present paper focuses on the anomalous appearence of strong infrared phonon resonances in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 E. Cappelluti , L. Benfatto , M. Manzardo , A. B. Kuzmenko

There has been a long-standing debate about the mechanism of the unusual superconductivity in alkali-intercalated fulleride superconductors. In this work, using high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we systematically…

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands characterized by an unusual ``mexican-hat'' dispersion. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the renormalization of the effective mass and trigonal warping of bilayer graphene by the electron-electron interaction. One consequence of such a renormalization in the low-energy bands of a bilayer crystal consists of a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-16 Csaba Toke , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The electron-phonon coupling in potassium-doped graphene on Ir(111) is studied via the renormalization of the pi* band near the Fermi level, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The renormalization is found to be fairly weak and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-26 M. Bianchi , E. D. L. Rienks , S. Lizzit , A. Baraldi , R. Balog , L. Hornekaer , Ph. Hofmann

A perpendicular electric field breaks the layer symmetry of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene, resulting in the opening of a band gap and a modification of the effective mass of the charge carriers. Using scanning tunneling microscopy and…

Band structure determines the motion of electrons in a solid, giving rise to exotic phenomena when properly engineered. Drawing an analogy between electrons and photons, artificially designed optical lattices indicate the possibility of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Siqi Wang , Xianqing Lin , Mervin Zhao , Changjian Zhang , Sui Yang , Yuan Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , David Tomanek , Xiang Zhang

A basis is derived from elastic plate theory that quantifies equilibrium and dynamic deformation and electron diffraction patterns of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). The basis is derived by solving in-plane and out-of-plane normal modes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Moon-ki Choi , Suk Hyun Sung , Robert Hovden , Ellad B. Tadmor

Atomically thin crystals hosting flat electronic bands have been recently identified as a rich playground for exploring and engineering strongly correlated phases. Yet, their variety remains limited, primarily to two-dimensional moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Ruize Ma , Nikita V. Tepliakov , Arash A. Mostofi , Michele Pizzochero

Flatbands with extremely narrow bandwidths on the order of a few mili-electron volts can appear in twisted multilayer graphene systems for appropriate system parameters. Here we investigate the electronic structure of a twisted bi-bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Narasimha Raju Chebrolu , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

Topological heavy fermion models[1-5] describe the flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) as arising from the hybridization between localized flat-band orbitals (f-electrons) and nearly-free conduction bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Zhenyuan Zhang , Shuang Wu , Dumitru Călugăru , Haoyu Hu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Wanatabe , Andrei B. Bernevig , Eva Y. Andrei

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

Electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is presumably detrimental for thermoelectric performance in semiconductors because it limits carrier mobility. Here we show that enhanced EPI with strong energy dependence offers an intrinsic pathway to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Yi Xia , Junsoo Park , Vidvuds Ozoliņš , Chris Wolverton

In highly correlated systems one can define an optical self energy in analogy to its quasiparticle (QP) self energy counterpart. This quantity provides useful information on the nature of the excitations involved in inelastic scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Hwang , J. P. F. LeBlanc , J. P. Carbotte

Through extensive self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations in a tight-binding model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), we show that many-body effects lead to a considerable increase of the bandwidth of the flat bands and, concomitantly, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , José González , Tobias Stauber

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell