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We revisit the global phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer and [symmetric] trilayer graphene (MA-TBG/TSTG) in light of recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements on these materials. These experiments both confirmed the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-17 Ziwei Wang , Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We propose a chiral symmetry restoration mechanism in monolayer graphene, in analogy with the strongly coupled gauge theory. The chiral (sublattice) symmetry of graphene, which is spontaneously broken under the effectively strong Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-09 Yasufumi Araki

We study the effect of uniaxial strain on the electronic band structure of gapped graphene. We consider two types of gapped graphene, one which breaks the symmetry between the two triangular sublattices (staggered model), and another which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-11 M. Farjam , H. Rafii-Tabar

We address the precise determination of the phase diagram of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene under hydrostatic pressure within a self-consistent Hartree-Fock method in real space, including all the remote bands of the system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Israel Díaz , José González , Tobias Stauber

Twisted bilayer graphenes with magical angle exhibit strongly correlated electronic properties because of the isolated flat band at the Fermi level. We studied the twisted bilayer graphene with substrates on both layers. The substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Ma Luo

Functionalizing graphene was recently shown to have a dramatic effect on the electronic properties of this material. Here we investigate spatial ordering of adatoms driven by the RKKY-type interactions. In the ordered state, which arises…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-30 D. A. Abanin , A. V. Shytov , L. S. Levitov

Electromagnetic dressing by a high-frequency field drastically modifies the electronic transport properties on Dirac systems. Here its effects on the energy spectrum of graphene with two possible phases of Kekul\'e distortion (namely, Kek-Y…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 M. A. Mojarro , V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos , Gerardo G. Naumis

Following the recent realization of an artificial version of Graphene in the electronic surface states of copper with judiciously placed carbon monoxide molecules inducing the honeycomb lattice symmetry (K. K. Gomes et al., Nature 483, 306…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 Doron L. Bergman

Ordered atomic-scale superlattices on surface hold great interest both for basic science and for potential applications in advanced technology. However, controlled fabrication of superlattices down to atomic scale has proven exceptionally…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-06 Dong-Lin Ma , Zhong-Qiu Fu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Bin Qiao , Chao Yan , Yu Zhang , Jing-Yi Hu , Qian Xiao , Xin-Rui Mao , Lin He

We demonstrate that the current flow in graphene can be guided on atomically thin current pathways by means of the engineering of Kekul\'e-O distortions. A grain boundary in these distortions separates the system into topological distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Santiago Galván y García , Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Francisco Sánchez-Ochoa , Thomas Stegmann

Monolayer graphene at neutrality in the quantum Hall regime has many competing ground states with various types of ordering. The outcome of this competition is modified by the presence of the sample boundaries. In this paper we use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-13 Angelika Knothe , Thierry Jolicoeur

Antiferromagnetic (AF) transitions of birefringent Dirac fermions created by a Y-shaped Kekul\'e distortion in graphene are investigated by the mean-field theory and the determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We show that the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Chenyue Wen , Wanpeng Han , Xukun Feng , Xingchuan Zhu , Weisheng Zhao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Shiping Feng , Huaiming Guo

Doping graphene near the 1/4 filling to shift the extended flat band and van Hove singularity below E$_F$ has been highly desirable. Here we report the experimental observation of an extended flat band below E$_F$ in Li-intercalated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Changhua Bao , Hongyun Zhang , Xi Wu , Shaohua Zhou , Qian Li , Pu Yu , Jia Li , Wenhui Duan , Shuyun Zhou

We investigate superconducting order in the extended Hubbard model on the two-dimensional graphene lattice using the variational cluster approximation (VCA) with an exact diagonalization solver at zero temperature. Building on the results…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 J. P. L. Faye , M. N. Diarra , D. Sénéchal

This study investigates the topological behavior of a continuous elastic phononic structure characterized by a 3-term Kekul\'e distortion. The elastic waveguide consists of a hexagonal unit cell whose geometric dimensions are intentionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Ting-Wei Liu , Fabio Semperlotti

We present a comprehensive investigation of the structural and electronic properties of Sn intercalated buffer layers on SiC(0001) using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (LT-STM/STS), spot-profile analysis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Huu Thoai Ngo , Zamin Mamiyev , Niklas Witt , Tim Wehling , Christoph Tegenkamp

Specific types of spatial defects or potentials can turn monolayer graphene into a topological material. These topological defects are classified by a spatial dimension $D$ and they are systematically obtained from the Hamiltonian by means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Amit Goft , Yuval Abulafia , Nadav Orion , Claude L. Schochet , Eric Akkermans

A type of line defect (LD) composed of alternate squares and octagons (4-8) as the basic unit is currently an experimentally available topological defect in graphene lattice, which brings some interesting modification to magnetic and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Zhaoyong Guan , Shuang Ni , Shuanglin Hu

The effects of second-neighbor interactions in Kekule patterned graphene electronic properties are studied starting from a tight-binding Hamiltonian. Thereafter, a low-energy effective Hamiltonian is obtained by projecting the high energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Elias Andrade , Gerardo G. Naumis , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos

Monolayer graphene at charge neutrality in a quantizing magnetic field is a quantum Hall ferromagnet. Due to the spin and valley (near) degeneracies, there is a plethora of possible ground states. Previous theoretical work, based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Suman Jyoti De , Ankur Das , Sumathi Rao , Ribhu K. Kaul , Ganpathy Murthy