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AB-stacked bilayer graphene has emerged as a fascinating yet simple platform for exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena of correlated electrons. Unexpectedly, a phase with negative dR/dT has recently been observed when a large electric…

The magnetic domain configuration of a system reveals a wealth of information about the fundamental magnetic properties of that system and can be a critical factor in the operation of magnetic devices. Not only are the details of the domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Robert M. Reeve , Hans-Joachim Elmers , Felix Büttner , Mathias Kläui

The Josephson effect is one of the most studied macroscopic quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics and has been an essential part of the quantum technologies development over the last decades. It is already used in many applications…

Van der Waals heterostructures obtained by artificially stacking two-dimensional crystals represent the frontier of material engineering, demonstrating properties superior to those of the starting materials. Fine control of the interlayer…

Graphene plasmons were predicted to possess ultra-strong field confinement and very low damping at the same time, enabling new classes of devices for deep subwavelength metamaterials, single-photon nonlinearities, extraordinarily strong…

We study the localization properties of electrons in incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene for small angles, encompassing the narrow-band regime, by numerically exact means. Sub-ballistic states are found within the narrow-band region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Miguel Gonçalves , Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Rubem Mondaini , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Electron wavefunctions in twisted bilayer graphene may have a strong single layer character or be intrinsically delocalized between layers, with their nature often determined by how energetically close they are to the Dirac point. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

Recent thermodynamic measurements on two-dimensional (2D) electron systems have found diverging behavior in the magnetic susceptibility and appearance of ferromagnetism with decreasing electron density. The critical densities for these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Fazeli , K. Esfarjani , B. Tanatar

The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials has expanded to multilayered systems where electronic, optical, and mechanical properties change-often dramatically-with stacking order, thickness, twist, and interlayer spacing [1-5]. For…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-27 Suk Hyun Sung , Noah Schnitzer , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , Robert Hovden

We report room temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy study of bilayer graphene prepared by mechanical exfoliation on SiO$_2$/Si surface and electrically contacted with gold pads using a mechanical mask. The bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Shyam K. Choudhary , Anjan K. Gupta

The optical and electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures depend strongly on the atomic stacking order of the constituent layers. This is exemplified by periodic variation of the local atomic registry, known as moire…

Twisted bilayer systems host a wealth of emergent phenomena, such as flat-band superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and ferroelectricity, arising from moir\'e superlattices and unconventional interlayer coupling. Despite their central role,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 A. Nakamura , Y. Chiashi , T. Shimojima , Y. Tanaka , S. Akatsuka , M. Sakano , S. Masubuchi , T. Machida , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. Ishizaka

Understanding and tuning correlated states is of great interest and significance to modern condensed matter physics. The recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity and Mott-like insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer…

Formation of wrinkles is a common phenomenon in the large area growth of two dimensional layered materials on metallic substrates. Wrinkles can significantly affect the working of 2D materials based large scale electronic devices and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Monika Moun , Aastha Vasdev , Rajashekhar Pujar , K. Priya Madhuri , U. Mogera , Neena S. John , G. U. Kulkarni , Goutam Sheet

Devices made from two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides possess interesting electronic properties that can become accessible to experimental probes when the samples are protected from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Michael A. Altvater , Tianhui Zhu , Guohong Li , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

We describe the weak localization correction to conductivity in ultra-thin graphene films, taking into account disorder scattering and the influence of trigonal warping of the Fermi surface. A possible manifestation of the chiral nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 K. Kechedzhi , E. McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , H. Suzuura , T. Ando , B. L. Altshuler

In this work we present results acquired by applying magnetic field imaging technique based on Nitrogen-Vacancy centres in diamond crystal for characterization of magnetic thin films defects. We used the constructed wide-field magnetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-02 Andris Berzins , Janis Smits , Andrejs Petruhins

Imaging the magnetic configuration of thin-films has been a long-standing area of research. Since a few years, the emergence of two-dimensional ferromagnetic materials calls for innovation in the field of magnetic imaging. As the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-13 T. Guillet , A. Marty , C. Vergnaud , F. Bonell , M. Jamet

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit rich quantum phenomena, but ab initio modelling of these systems remains computationally prohibitive. Existing machine learning methods for accelerating density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Zekun Lou , Alan M. Lewis , Mariana Rossi

The existence of strong trigonal warping around the K point for the low energy electronic states in multilayer (N$\geq$2) graphene films and graphite is well established. It is responsible for phenomena such as Lifshitz transitions and…