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A theory for laser-driven electron dynamics and high-harmonic generation in bulk solids with two lattice sites per unit cell of arbitrary dimension is formulated. In tight-binding approximation, such solids can be described by $2\times 2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Daniel Moos , Hannah Jürß , Dieter Bauer

We derive electronic tight-binding Hamiltonians for strained graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides based on Wannier transformation of {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations. Our microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Shiang Fang , Stephen Carr , Miguel A. Cazalilla , Efthimios Kaxiras

Materials with optimized band gap are needed in many specialized applications. In this work, we demonstrate that Hellmann-Feynman forces associated with the gap states can be used to find atomic coordinates with a desired electronic density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Kiran Prasai , Parthapratim Biswas , D. A. Drabold

By combining continuum elasticity theory and tight-binding atomistic simulations, we work out the constitutive nonlinear stress-strain relation for graphene stretching elasticity and we calculate all the corresponding nonlinear elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-04 Emiliano Cadelano , Pier Luca Palla , Stefano Giordano , Luciano Colombo

We derive analytical solutions based on singular Green's functions, which enable efficient computations of scattering simulations or Floquet-Bloch dispersion relations for waves propagating through an elastic plate, whose surface is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Richard Wiltshaw , Jacopo Maria De Ponti , Richard Vaughan Craster

We aim to explore a more efficient way to simulate few-body dynamics on quantum computers. Instead of mapping the second quantization of the system Hamiltonian to qubit Pauli gates representation via the Jordan-Wigner transform, we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Peng Guo , Jaime Park , Frank X. Lee

Motivated by the recent observation of correlated insulator states and unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the dependence of electron correlations on the twist angle and reveal the existence of strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

In this paper we construct the generalized coherent states for an electron in monolayer or bilayer graphene placed in an external magnetic field. At first we define an appropriate set of ladder operators acting on the eigenfunctions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 David J. Fernández C. , Daniel O-Campa

We use a symmetry approach to construct a systematic derivative expansion of the low energy effective Hamiltonian modifying the continuum Dirac description of graphene in the presence of non-uniform elastic deformations. We extract all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-26 Juan L. Mañes , Fernando de Juan , Mauricio Sturla , María A. H. Vozmediano

In this work, we focus on the fermionic structure of the low-energy excitations of graphene (a monolayer of carbon atoms) to propose a new supersymmetric field-theoretic model for this physical system. In the current literature, other…

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

We consider the superconducting and Mott-insulating states for the twisted bilayer graphene, modeled as two narrow-band system of electrons with appreciable intraatomic Coulomb interactions. The interaction induces kinetic exchange which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Maciej Fidrysiak , Michał Zegrodnik , Józef Spałek

A computational method is developed whereby the reflectivity of low-energy electrons from a surface can be obtained from a first-principles solution of the electronic structure of the system. The method is applied to multilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 R. M. Feenstra , M. Widom

We construct a heavy fermion representation for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) systems. Two local orbitals (per spin/valley) are analytically found, which are exactly the maximally localized zero modes of the continuum Hamiltonian near the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Hao Shi , Xi Dai

We use the symmetries of monolayer graphene to write a set of constraints that must be satisfied by any electron-phonon interaction hamiltonian. The explicit solution as a series expansion in the momenta gives the most general,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan L. Manes

The multiphoton coherent states, a generalization to coherent sates, are derived for electrons in bilayer graphene placed in a constant homogeneous magnetic field which is orthogonal to the bilayer surface. For that purpose a generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 David J. Fernández C. , Dennis I. Martínez-Moreno

We provide a formal derivation of a reduced model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) from Density Functional Theory. Our derivation is based on a variational approximation of the TBG Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian and asymptotic limit techniques. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Eric Cancès , Louis Garrigue , David Gontier

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

A computationally efficient workflow for obtaining the low-energy symmetric tight-binding Hamiltonians for twisted multilayer systems is presented in this work. We apply this scheme to twisted bilayer graphene at the first magic angle. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-24 Arkadiy Davydov , Kenny Choo , Mark H. Fischer , Titus Neupert

In the limit of low adatom concentration, we obtain exact analytic expressions for the local and total density of states (LDOS, TDOS) for a tight-binding model of adatoms on graphene. The model is not limited to nearest-neighbor hopping but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Nicholas A. Pike , David Stroud