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Free standing silicene is predicted to display comparable electronic properties as graphene. However, the yet synthesized silicene-like structures have been only realized on different substrates which turned out to exhibit versatile…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 G. R. Berdiyorov , M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters , Adri C. T. van Duin

Bilayer graphene samples may exhibit regions where the two layers are locally delaminated forming a so-called quantum blister in the graphene sheet. Electron and hole states can be confined in this graphene quantum blisters (GQB) by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Hasan M. Abdullah , H. Bahlouli , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) provides an ideal basis for gate-controlled, and free of etching, electronic devices. Theoretical modeling of realistic devices is an essential part of research, however, simulations of large-scale BLG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Szu-Chao Chen , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Ming-Hao Liu

The paper presents a computational study of the ground-state magnetic phases of a selected bilayer graphene nanoflake in external electric field and magnetic field. The electric field has parallel and perpendicular component while the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-02 Karol Szałowski

We address in this work the question of the discretization of two-dimensional periodic Dirac Hamiltonians. Standard finite differences methods on rectangular grids are plagued with the so-called Fermion doubling problem, which creates…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 H. Chen , O. Pinaud , M. Tahir

We here classify of all the fully gapped \emph{massive} and \emph{gapless} phases in bilayer graphene. The effective low energy theory in bilayer graphene is constructed, and various discrete and continuous symmetries of the non-interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-18 Bitan Roy

Elastic strain can displace the massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene in a space-dependent fashion, similar to the effect of an external magnetic field, thus giving rise to Landau quantization. We here show that the strain-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Tianyu Liu , Jun-Hong Li , Xingchuan Zhu , Huaiming Guo , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We estimate the strength of interaction-enhanced coherence between two graphene or topological insulator surface-state layers by solving imaginary-axis gap equations in the random phase approximation. Using a self-consistent treatment of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Inti Sodemann , D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

We present the electronic band structures of states with the same symmetry as the three-sublattice planar antiferromagnetic order of the triangular lattice. Such states can also be defined on the honeycomb lattice provided the spin density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 Alex Thomson , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Subir Sachdev , Mathias S. Scheurer

Exact analytic solutions for an electron in graphene interacting with external complex magnetic fields are found. The eigenvalue problem for the non-hermitian Dirac-Weyl Hamiltonian leads to a pair of intertwined Schr{\"o}dinger equations,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 DJ Fernández , JD García-Muñoz

We use the DMRG to study the correlated electron states favored by the Coulomb interaction projected onto the narrow bands of twisted bilayer graphene within a spinless one-valley model. The Hilbert space of the narrow bands is constructed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek

We investigate the interplay of in-plane magnetic and transverse electric fields in AB-stacked bilayer graphene. In prior work, we demonstrated that this configuration induces an insulator-metal (IM) transition with large impact on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Amarnath Chakraborty , Aleksandr Rodin , Shaffique Adam , Giovanni Vignale

Controlling the stacking and rotational registry of graphene layers provides a powerful handle on atomic-scale structural reconstructions that alter the electronic landscape at the nanoscale. In particular, this governs how massless and…

We present a simple group theory explanation of the fact that the energy bands merge in the corners of the Brillouin zone for graphene and for two particular cases of Kagome lattice for arbitrary tight--binding Hamiltonian. We connect the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-13 E. Kogan

Low-energy fermionic excitations in two-dimensional materials deviate from the conventional Schr\"odinger description and are instead governed by Dirac equations. Such Dirac fermions give rise to a variety of unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiang Liua , Zheng Taoa , Wenchen Luoa , Tapash Chakraborty

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

The effect of the intersite and interplane Coulomb interactions between the Dirac fermions on the formation of the Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity in bilayer doped graphene is studied disregarding the effects of the van der Waals potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-08 M. Yu. Kagan , V. A. Mitskan , M. M. Korovushkin

Transmission probabilities of Dirac fermions in graphene under linear barrier potential oscillating in time are investigated. Solving Dirac equation we end up with the solutions of the energy spectrum depending on several modes coming from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

A two-dimensional periodic array of scatterers has been introduced to a single layer of graphene in the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene layer. The eigenvalue equation for such a system has been solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

We study the problem of non-magnetic impurities adsorbed on bilayer graphene in the diluted regime. We analyze the impurity spectral densities for various concentrations and gate fields. We also analyze the effect of the adsorbate on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro