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We propose a realizable device design for an all-electrical robust valley filter that utilizes spin protected topological interface states hosted on monolayer 2D-Xene materials with large intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. In contrast with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Koustav Jana , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We investigate topological phases of bilayer graphene subject to antiferromagnetic exchange field, interlayer bias, and irradiated by light. We discover that at finite bias and light intensity the system transitions into a previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

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

The inhomogenous real-space electronic structure of gapless and gapped disordered bilayer graphene is calculated in the presence of quenched charge impurities. For gapped bilayer graphene we find that for current experimental conditions the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the quantum tunneling of electrons in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) $n$-$p$ junction and $n$-$p$-$n$ junction. We show that Klein tunneling of an electron can occur in this system. The quasiparticles are not only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Matthew Sanderson , Yee Sin Ang , Chao Zhang

Spatially varying strained graphene can acquire interesting electronic properties because of the strain-induced valley-dependent gauge (pseudomagnetic) fields1,2. Here we report the realization of strained graphene regions located close to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-31 Jun-Fang Liu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Bin Qiao , Yu Zhou , Jia-Cai Nie , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , Lin He

Although most two-dimensional (2D) materials are non-ferroelectric with highly symmetric lattices, symmetry breaking may take place in their bilayers upon certain stacking order, giving rise to so-called sliding ferroelectricity where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 Liu Yang , Menghao Wu

Since the discovery of superconductivity and correlated insulator at fractional electron fillings in the twisted bilayer graphene, most theoretical efforts have been focused on describing this system in terms of an effective extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Chuan Wu , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

We report a study of one-dimensional subband splitting in a bilayer graphene quantum point contact in which quantized conductance in steps of $4\,e^2/h$ is clearly defined down to the lowest subband. While our source-drain bias spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 R. Kraft , I. V. Krainov , V. Gall , A. P. Dmitriev , R. Krupke , I. V. Gornyi , R. Danneau

The electron transmission between monolayer and bilayer graphene is theoretically studied for zigzag and armchair boundaries within an effective-mass scheme. Due to the presence of an evanescent wave in the bilayer graphene, traveling modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Takeshi Nakanishi , Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

The experimental realization of twisted bilayer graphene strongly pushed the inspection of bilayer systems. In this context, it was recently shown that a two layer Haldane model with a thirty degree rotation angle between the layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate can exhibit an anomalous Hall effect at 3/4 filling due to the spontaneous valley polarization in valley resolved moir\'e bands with opposite Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Xuzhe Ying , Mengxing Ye , Leon Balents

The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel correlated physics of these systems. While a significant number…

Bilayer graphene contains, compared to graphene monolayer, an additional graphene sheet and, therefore, extra degrees of freedom, making it a unique system for complex electronic states to emerge. Here, we show that there are two types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Long-Jing , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wei-Jie Zuo , Lin He

Physical properties reflecting valley asymmetry of Landau levels in a biased bilayer graphene under magnetic field are discussed. Within the $4-$band continuum model with Hartree-corrected self-consistent gap and finite damping factor we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-14 Masaaki Nakamura , Eduardo V. Castro , Balazs Dora

Few layer graphene systems such as Bernal stacked bilayer and rhombohedral (ABC-) stacked trilayer offer the unique possibility to open an electric field tunable energy gap. To date, this energy gap has been experimentally confirmed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 T. Khodkov , I Khrapach , M. F. Craciun , S. Russo

Gapped bilayer graphene can support the presence of intragap states due to kink gate potentials applied to the graphene layers. Electrons in these states display valley-momentum locking, which makes them attractive for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Nassima Benchtaber , David Sánchez , Llorenç Serra

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

The existence of nontrivial Berry phases associated with two inequivalent valleys in graphene provides interesting opportunities for investigating the valley-projected topological states. Examples of such studies include observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -C. Hsu , M. L. Teague , J. -Q. Wang , N. -C. Yeh