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A strong in-plane magnetic field drastically alters the low-energy spectrum of bilayer graphene by separating the parabolic energy dispersion into two linear Dirac cones. The effect of this dramatic change on the transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Van der Donck , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

We study the Floquet phase diagram of two-dimensional Dirac materials such as graphene and the one-dimensional (1D) spin-1/2 $XY$ model in a transverse field in the presence of periodic time-varying terms in their Hamiltonians in the low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Priyanka Mohan , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

We show that the insulating states of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene support a series of collective modes corresponding to local particle-hole excitations on triangular lattice sites. Our theory is based on a continuum model of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-09 Ajesh Kumar , Ming Xie , A. H. MacDonald

The bands of graphite are extremely sensitive to topological defects which modify the electronic structure. In this paper we found non-dispersive flat bands no farther than 10 meV of the Fermi energy in slightly twisted bilayer graphene as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 E. Suárez Morell , J. D. Correa , P. Vargas , M. Pacheco , Z. Barticevic

Additional component in multi-layer epitaxial graphene grown on the C-terminated surface of SiC, which exhibits the characteristic electronic properties of a AB-stacked graphene bilayer, is identified in magneto-optical response of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 M. Orlita , C. Faugeras , J. Borysiuk , J. M. Baranowski , W. Strupinski , M. Sprinkle , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer , D. M. Basko , G. Martinez , M. Potemski

We investigate the transport properties of charge carriers in AB bilayer graphene through a triple electrostatic barrier. We calculate the transmission and reflection using the continuity conditions at the interfaces of the triple barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal , Ahmed Siari

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…

The use of two truly two-dimensional gapless semiconductors, monolayer and bilayer graphene, as current-carrying components in field-effect transistors (FET) gives access to new types of nanoelectronic devices. Here, we report on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 H. Schmidt , T. Luedtke , P. Barthold , E. McCann , V. I. Falko , R. J. Haug

Compared with twisted bilayer graphene, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) provides another important platform to realize the moir\'e flat bands. In this paper, we first calculate the valley Chern number phase diagram of TDBG in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li , Zi-Yue Zhang

We introduce a driven-dissipative Floquet model in which a single harmonic oscillator, with both frequency and decay rate modulated, realizes a non-Hermitian synthetic lattice with an effective electric-field gradient in frequency space.…

The coupling of monochromatic light fields and solids introduces nonequilibrium Floquet states, offering opportunities to create and explore new topological phenomena. Using combined first-principles and Floquet analysis we show that one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-12 Hang Liu , Jia-Tao Sun , Sheng Meng

Twisting bilayer sheets of graphene have been proven to be an efficient way to manipulate the electronic Dirac-like properties, resulting in flat bands at magic angles. Inspired by the electronic model, we develop a continuum model for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-20 Emmanuele Cappelluti , Jose Angel Silva-Guillén , Habib Rostami , Francisco Guinea

This work provides a convenient and powerful means towards the engineering of Floquet bands via Bloch oscillations, by adding a tilted linear potential to periodically driven lattice systems. The added linear field not only restricts the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Xi Liu , Senmao Tan , Qing-hai Wang , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

Moir\'e systems featuring flat electronic bands exhibit a vast landscape of emergent exotic quantum states, making them one of the resourceful platforms in condensed matter physics in recent times. Tuning these systems via twist angle and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Jin Jiang , Qixuan Gao , Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Mario Di Luca , Emily Hajigeorgiou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

The impact of weak disorder and its spatial correlation on the topology of a Floquet system is not well understood so far. In this study, we investigate a model closely related to a two-dimensional Floquet system that has been realized in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Jun-Hui Zheng , Arijit Dutta , Monika Aidelsburger , Walter Hofstetter

We use self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations performed in the full $\pi$-band Hilbert space to assess the nature of the recently discovered correlated insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We find that gaps…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

Our proposed spin valve prototype showcases a sophisticated design featuring a two-dimensional graphene bilayer positioned between layers of ${CrBr}_3$ ferromagnetic insulators. In this model, proximity coupling plays a pivotal role,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 S. K. Behera , P. C. Ramamurthy

We study ballistic electron transport through electrostatic barriers in AB-stacked bilayer graphene within a full four-band framework. A mode-resolved analysis reveals how propagating and evanescent channels couple across electrostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Dan-Na Liu , Jun Zheng , Pierre A. Pantaleon

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects realized in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and multilayer-graphene-based moir\'e heterostructures have captured a tremendous growth of interest. In this work, we propose that rhombohedral multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Yanran Shi , Bo Xie , Fengfan Ren , Xinyu Cai , Zhongqing Guo , Qiao Li , Xin Lu , Nicolas Regnault , Zhongkai Liu , Jianpeng Liu

We study the fracture of reversible double transient networks, constituted of water suspensions of entangled surfactant wormlike micelles reversibly linked by various amounts of telechelic polymers. We provide a state diagram that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-17 S. Arora , A. Shabbir , O. Hassager , C. Ligoure , L. Ramos