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Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has recently emerged as a platform for hosting correlated phenomena, owing to the exceptionally flat band dispersion that results near interlayer twist angle $\theta\approx1.1^\circ$. At low temperature a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-03 H. Polshyn , M. Yankowitz , S. Chen , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. R. Dean , A. F. Young

In strongly interacting systems with multiple energy bands, the interplay between electrons with different effective masses and the enlarged Hilbert space drives intricate correlated phenomena that do not occur in single-band systems.…

We study the band structures and the associated contact points for a phosphorene superlattice made up of two periodic areas. We use the boundary conditions to extract an equation describing the dispersion relation after obtaining the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Jilali Seffadi , Ilham Redouani , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal

Electrons in graphene are described by relativistic Dirac-Weyl spinors with a two-component pseudospin1-12. The unique pseudospin structure of Dirac electrons leads to emerging phenomena such as the massless Dirac cone2, anomalous quantum…

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hao-Chien Wang , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Electronic decoupling of graphene from metallic and semiconducting substrates via intercalation of different species is one of the widely used approaches in studies of graphene. In the present work the modification of the electronic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-24 Yong Zhou , Roman Ovcharenko , Beate Paulus , Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

The electronic transport properties of graphene-based superlattice structures are investigated. A graphene-based modulation-doped superlattice structure geometry is proposed and consist of periodically arranged alternate layers:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

Conduction between graphene layers is suppressed by momentum conservation whenever the layer stacking has a rotation. Here we show that phonon scattering plays a crucial role in facilitating interlayer conduction. The resulting dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Perebeinos , J. Tersoff , Ph. Avouris

Flat band materials such as the kagome metals or moir\'e superlattice systems are of intense current interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and usually exhibit topological properties. Their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 Joseph G. Checkelsky , B. Andrei Bernevig , Piers Coleman , Qimiao Si , Silke Paschen

We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov

Superlattice potentials are theoretically predicted to modify the single-particle electronic structures. The resulting Coulomb-interaction-dominated low-energy physics would generate highly novel many-body phenomena. Here, by in situ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Chaofei Liu , Jian Wang

Stacking two layers of graphene with a relative twist angle gives rise to moir\'e patterns, which can strongly modify electronic behavior and may lead to unconventional superconductivity. A synthetic version of twisted bilayers can be…

We investigate ultrafast demagnetization due to electron-phonon interaction in a model band-ferromagnet. We show that the microscopic mechanism behind the spin dynamics due to electron-phonon interaction is the interplay of scattering and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-25 Kai Leckron , Svenja Vollmar , Hans Christian Schneider

The advent of few-layer graphenes has given rise to a new family of two-dimensional systems with emergent electronic properties governed by relativistic quantum mechanics. The multiple carbon sublattices endow the electronic wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 L. C. Campos , A. F. Young , K. Surakitbovorn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Strong electron-electron interactions are known to significantly modify the electron-phonon coupling relative to the predictions of density functional theory, but this effect is challenging to calculate with realistic theories of strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-21 David J. Abramovitch , Jennifer Coulter , Sophie Beck , Andrew Millis

Using density functional theory calculations we investigate the electronic structure of graphene doped by deposition of foreign atoms. We demonstrate that, as the charge transfer to the graphene layer increases, the band structure of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Jonas R. F. Lima

The nature of the correlated phases found in some graphene heterostructures is under debate. We use dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) to analyze the effect of local correlations close to half-filling on one of such systems, the ABC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-30 M. J. Calderón , A. Camjayi , E. Bascones

Electron-phonon coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is an important but difficult topic. We propose a scheme to simplify and understand this problem. Weighted by the coupling strength with the low-energy heavy electrons ($f$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hao Shi , Wangqian Miao , Xi Dai

The interlayer spin correlations in the magnetic/non-magnetic semiconductor superlattices are reviewed. The experimental evidences of interlayer exchange coupling in different all-semiconductor structures, based on neutronographic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Kacman , J. Blinowski , H. Kepa , T. M. Giebultowicz