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We explore in detail the electronic phases of a system consisting of three non-colinear arrays of coupled quantum wires, each rotated 120 degrees with respect to the next. A perturbative renormalization-group analysis reveals that multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Chuan Chen , A. H. Castro Neto , Vitor M. Pereira

The AB-BA domain wall in gapped graphene bilayers is a rare naked structure hosting topological electronic states. Here we show, for the first time, direct imaging of its topological edge states by using scanning tunneling microscope. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Long-Jing Yin , Hua Jiang , Jia-Bin Qiao , Lin He

Interlayer sliding, together with twist angle, is a crucial parameter that defines the atomic registry and thus determines the properties of two-dimensional (2D) material homobilayers. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jie Pan , Huanhuan Wang , Lin Zou , Xiaoyu Wang , Lihao Zhang , Xueyan Dong , Haibo Xie , Yi Ding , Yuze Zhang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Shuxi Wang , Zhe Wang

In topological photonics, artificial photonic structures are constructed for realizing nontrivial unidirectional propagation of photonic information. On the other hand, moir\'e superlattices are emerging as an important avenue for…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Weiwei Luo , Jiang Fan , Alexey B. Kuzmenko , Wei Cai , Jingjun Xu

Minimally twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of an interlayer bias develops a triangular network of valley chiral modes that propagate along the $AB/BA$ interfaces and scatter at the $AA$ regions. The low energy physics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 P. Wittig , F. Dominguez , C. De Beule , P. Recher

In bilayer graphene, electrostatic confinement can be realized by a suitable design of top and back gate electrodes. We measure electronic transport through a bilayer graphene quantum dot, which is laterally confined by gapped regions and…

Magnetic fields force ballistic electrons injected from a narrow contact to move along skipping orbits and form caustics. This leads to pronounced resistance peaks at nearby voltage probes as electrons are effectively focused inside them, a…

We study surface plasmons in minimally-twisted gapped bilayer graphene that contains a triangular network of partial dislocations (or AB-BA domain walls) hosting topologically protected one-dimensional electronic states. We show that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Brian S. Vermilyea , Michael M. Fogler

Electron transport in bilayer graphene placed under a perpendicular electric field is revealed experimentally. Steep increase of the resistance is observed under high electric field; however, the resistance does not diverge even at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Hisao Miyazaki , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda , Minoru Otani , Susumu Okada

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

We study the electron transmission through the domain boundary on bilayer graphene separating AB and BA stacking regions. Using the effective continuum model, we calculate the electron transmission probability as a function of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikito Koshino

We report on ground- and excited state transport through an electrostatically defined few-hole quantum dot in bilayer graphene in both parallel and perpendicular applied magnetic fields. A remarkably clear level scheme for the two-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 A. Kurzmann , M. Eich , H. Overweg , M. Mangold , F. Herman , P. Rickhaus , R. Pisoni , Y. Lee , R. Garreis , C. Tong , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. Ensslin , T. Ihn

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

In this work we show that the trigonal warping of the electronic bands in bilayer graphene dramatically modifies the behavior of the one-dimensional modes topologically confined due to an inhomogeneous bias that changes sign across a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 A. S. Núñez , E. Suárez Morell , P. Vargas

Control over minivalley polarization and interlayer coupling is demonstrated in double bilayer graphene twisted with an angle of 2.37$^\circ$. This intermediate angle is small enough for the minibands to form and large enough such that the…

Low-dimensional electronic systems have traditionally been obtained by electrostatically confining electrons, either in heterostructures or in intrinsically nanoscale materials such as single molecules, nanowires, and graphene. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 A. F. Young , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , B. Hunt , S. H. Choi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Experiments on bilayer graphene unveiled a fascinating realization of stacking disorder where triangular domains with well-defined Bernal stacking are delimited by a hexagonal network of strain solitons. Here we show by means of numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Fernando Gargiulo , Oleg V. Yazyev

We investigate the electrical transport properties of the mini-valley polarized state proposed recently in slightly doped Bernal Bilayer Graphene (BLG) in large electric displacement fields. By minimizing the Hartree-Fock energy functional,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Yuelin Shao , Xi Dai

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Priyanka Sinha , Ayan Mondal , Simão Meneses João , Bheema Lingam Chittari

We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunnelling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 J. J . P. Thompson , D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński