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We report on transport measurements of dual-gated, single-layer graphene devices in the quantum Hall regime, allowing for independent control of the filling factors in adjoining regions. Progress in device quality allows us to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 F. Amet , J. R. Wiliams , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We study topological bound states in quantum dots defined by an electric field in bilayer graphene. An external field is perpendicular to the bilayer and changes sign in a finite region that defines the quantum dot. The electric field opens…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

Propagation of an electron wave packet through a quantum point contact (QPC) defined by electrostatic gates in bilayer graphene is investigated. The gates provide a bias between the layers, in order to produce an energy gap. If the gates on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 D. R. da Costa , A. Chaves , S. H. R. Sena , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

Bilayer graphene can exhibit deformations such that the two graphene sheets are locally detached from each other resulting in a structure consisting of domains with different inter-layer coupling. Here we investigate how the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Hasan M. Abdullah , B. Van Duppen , M. Zarenia , H. Bahlouli , F. M. Peeters

Trilayer graphene allows systematic control of its electronic structure through stacking sequence and twist geometry, providing a versatile platform for correlated states. Here we report magnetotransport in alternating twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Dohun Kim , Gyeoul Lee , Nicolas Leconte , Seyoung Jin , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jeil Jung , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Here we show that twisted graphene trilayer made by misoriented stacking a graphene monolayer on top of a Bernal graphene bilayer can exhibit rich and tailored electronic properties. For the case that the graphene monolayer and bilayer are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 Jia-Bin Qiao , Lin He

Here we propose BC$_3$, a graphene derivative that has been synthesized, as a platform to realize exotic quantum phases by introducing a moir\'e pattern with mismatched stacking. In twisted bilayer BC$_3$, it is shown that a crossover from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Toshikaze Kariyado

We show that strained or deformed honeycomb lattices are promising platforms to realize fractional topological quantum states in the absence of any magnetic field. The strained induced pseudo magnetic fields are oppositely oriented in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-04 P. Ghaemi , J. Cayssol , D. N. Sheng , A. Vishwanath

We present measurements of quantized conductance in electrostatically induced quantum point contacts in bilayer graphene. The application of a perpendicular magnetic field leads to an intricate pattern of lifted and restored degeneracies…

Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1{\deg} features a pair of isolated flat electronic bands and forms a strongly correlated electronic platform. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to probe local properties of…

The experimental control over the twist angle in twisted bilayer graphene has not been reported and its realistic structure is most likely incommensurate. In this paper, we develop a tight-binding virtual crystal approximation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 D. Ghader , D. Szczȩśniak , A. Khater

Angle disorder is an intrinsic feature of twisted bilayer graphene and other moir\'e materials. Here, we discuss electron transport in twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of angle disorder. We compute the local density of states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea

Bilayer graphene bears an eight-fold degeneracy due to spin, valley and layer symmetry, allowing for a wealth of broken symmetry states induced by magnetic or electric fields, by strain, or even spontaneously by interaction. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 F. Freitag , J. Trbovic , M. Weiss , C. Schönenberger

The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer graphene in the Bernal stacking supports a variety of uniform broken-symmetry ground states in Landau level N=0 at integer filling factors $\nu \in [-3,4].$ When an electric potential difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 R. Cote , J. P. Fouquet , Wenchen Luo

Valley pseudospin, labeling quantum states of energy extrema in momentum space, is attracting tremendous attention1-13 because of its potential in constructing new carrier of information. Compared with the non-topological bulk valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Jiuyang Lu , Chunyin Qiu , Liping Ye , Xiying Fan , Manzhu Ke , Fan Zhang , Zhengyou Liu

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

We study a family of globally smooth spatially varying two dimensional stacking textures in bilayer graphene. We find that the strain-minimizing stacking patterns connecting inequivalent ground states with local $AB$ and $BA$ interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Xingting Gong , E. J. Mele

Bilayer graphene hosts valley-chiral one dimensional modes at domain walls between regions of different interlayer potential or stacking order. When such a channel is brought into proximity to a superconductor, the two electrons of a Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Alexander Schroer , Peter G. Silvestrov , Patrik Recher

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière