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Graphene layers are known to stack in two stable configurations, namely ABA or ABC stacking, with drastically distinct electronic properties. Unlike the ABA stacking, little has been done to experimentally investigate the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-31 Y. Henni , H. P. Ojeda Collado , K. Nogajewski , M. R. Molas , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , M. Orlita , M. Potemski , C. Faugeras

Suspended Bernal-stacked graphene multilayers up to an unexpectedly large thickness exhibit a broken-symmetry ground state, whose origin remains to be understood. Here we show that a finite-temperature second order phase transition occurs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Youngwoo Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , David Soler-Delgado , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The absence of an energy gap separating valence and conduction bands makes the low-energy electronic properties of graphene and its multi-layers sensitive to electron-electron interactions. In bilayers, for instance, interactions are…

The electronic properties of graphene are described by a Dirac Hamiltonian with a fourfold symmetry of spin and valley. This symmetry may yield novel fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at high magnetic field depending on the relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-12 F. Amet , A. J. Bestwick , J. R. Williams , L. Balicas , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

At low-energy, the band structure of graphene can be approximated by two degenerate valleys $(K,K^{\prime})$ about which the electronic spectra of the valence and conduction bands have linear dispersion relations. An electronic state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Cote , J. -F. Jobidon , H. A. Fertig

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

We formulate the chiral decomposition rules that govern the electronic structure of a broad family of twisted $N+M$ multilayer graphene configurations that combine arbitrary stacking order and a mutual twist. We show that at the magic angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 ShengNan Zhang , Bo Xie , QuanSheng Wu , Jianpeng Liu , Oleg V. Yazyev

Graphene and its multilayers have attracted considerable interest owing to the fourfold spin and valley degeneracy of their charge carriers, which enables the formation of a rich variety of broken-symmetry states and raises the prospect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Benjamin Krauss , Dmitry Abanin , Bertrand. I. Halperin , Jurgen H. Smet , Amir Yacoby

Recent experiments on bilayer graphene twisted near the magic angle have observed spontaneous integer quantum Hall states in the presence of an aligned hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate. These states arise from valley ferromagnetism,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Patrick J. Ledwith , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

A bipartite lattice with chiral symmetry is known to host zero energy flat bands if the numbers of the two sublattices are different. We demonstrate that this mechanism of producing flat bands can be realized on graphene by introducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Fujun Liu , Fanyao Qu , Wei Chen

The stacking faults (deviates from Bernal) will break the translational symmetry of multilayer graphenes and modify their electronic and optical behaviors to the extent depending on the interlayer coupling strength. This paper addresses the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Zhenhua Ni , Lei Liu , Yingying Wang , Zhe Zheng , Lain-Jong Li , Ting Yu , Zexiang Shen

Electronic states at domain walls in bilayer graphene are studied by analyzing their four and two band continuum models, by performing numerical calculations on the lattice, and by using quantum geometric arguments. The continuum theories…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Fan Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , E. J. Mele

Gapless bilayer graphene is susceptible to a variety of spontaneously gapped states. As predicted by theory and observed by experiment, the ground state is however topologically trivial, because a valley-independent gap is energetically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang , Fan Zhang

Recent experimental discovery of flavor symmetry breaking metallic phases in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene points to the strongly interacting nature of electrons near the top (bottom) of its valence (conduction) band. Superconductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-23 Ming Xie , Sankar Das Sarma

Richness and complexity of Raman spectra related to graphene materials is established from years to decades, with, among others: the well-known G, D, 2D,... bands plus a plethora of weaker bands related to disorder behavior, doping, stress,…

The electronic properties of a bricklayer model, which shares the same topology as the hexagonal lattice of graphene, are investigated numerically. We study the influence of random magnetic-field disorder in addition to a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 L. Schweitzer , P. Markos

Twisted bilayer graphene offers a unique bilayer two-dimensional-electron system where the layer separation is only in sub-nanometer scale. Unlike Bernal-stacked bilayer, the layer degree of freedom is disentangled from spin and valley,…

Though graphene has been intensively studied by Raman spectroscopy, in this letter, we report a study of second-order overtone and combinational Raman modes in an unexplored range of 1690-2150 cm-1 in nonsuspended commensurate (AB-stacked),…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-19 Chunxiao Cong , Ting Yu , Riichiro Saito

Recent experiments have demonstrated that neutral graphene sheets have an insulating ground state in the presence of an external magnetic field. We report on a $\pi$-band tight-binding-model Hartree-Fock calculation which examines the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-07 J. Jung , A. H. MacDonald

We consider ground state of electron-hole graphene bilayer composed of two independently doped graphene layers when a condensate of spatially separated electron-hole pairs is formed. In the weak coupling regime the pairing affects only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Yu. E. Lozovik , A. A. Sokolik