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We demonstrate electrochemical top gating of graphene by using a solid polymer electrolyte. This allows to reach much higher electron and hole doping than standard back gating. In-situ Raman measurements monitor the doping. The G peak…

Electron-electron interactions play a critical role in many condensed matter phenomena, and it is tempting to find a way to control them by changing the interactions' strength. One possible approach is to place a studied system in proximity…

We investigated the electronic properties of the topological insulator Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at low temperature. We obtained high-resolution quasiparticle interference data of the topological…

The allegedly unconventional superconducting phase of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG)1 has been predicted to possess extraordinary thermal properties, as it is formed from a highly diluted electron ensemble with both a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-07 G. Di Battista , P. Seifert , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. C. Fong , A. Principi , D. K. Efetov

We present a comprehensive study on enhancing the thermoelectric (TE) performance of bilayer graphene (BLG) through irradiation with arbitrarily polarized light, focusing on $AA$- and $AB$-stacked configurations with zigzag edges. Utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Cynthia Ihuoma Osuala , Tanu Choudhary , Raju K. Biswas , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) has emerged as an important platform for studying correlated phenomena, including unconventional superconductivity, in two-dimensional systems. The complexity of the atomic-scale structures in TBLG has made…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-07 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Efthimios Kaxiras

We report tunneling spectroscopy experiments on a bilayer graphene double quantum dot device that can be tuned by all-graphene lateral gates. The diameter of the two quantum dots are around 50 nm and the constrictions acting as tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Christian Volk , Stefan Fringes , Bernat Terrés , Jan Dauber , Stephan Engels , Stefan Trellenkamp , Christoph Stampfer

The magnetic focusing of electrons has proven its utility in fundamental studies of electron transport. Here we report the direct imaging of magnetic focusing of electron waves, specifically in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). We see…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 K. E. Aidala , R. E. Parrott , T. Kramer , E. J. Heller , R. M. Westervelt , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We study the orbital effect of a strong magnetic field parallel to the layers on the energy spectrum of the Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer and multilayers, including graphite. We consider the minimal model with the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

Motivated by a recent experiment (Sanchez-Yamagishi et.al, arXiv:1602.06815) reporting evidence of helical spin-polarized edge states in layer-biased twisted bilayer graphene under a magnetic flux, we study the possibility of stabilising a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-13 F. Finocchiaro , F. Guinea , P. San-Jose

We demonstrate the crucial role of small-angle scattering in transverse magnetic focusing (TMF) in ballistic GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Measurements in various samples show that the role significantly depends on their geometry. We…

Using the semiclassical quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE), we numerically calculate the DC transport properties of bilayer graphene near charge neutrality. We find, in contrast to prior discussions, that phonon scattering is crucial even at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Steven H. Simon

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 flat bands in bilayer graphene(BLG) are sensitive to electric fields E\bot directed between the layers, and magnify the electron-electron interaction effects, thus making BLG an attractive platform for new two-dimensional (2D) electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 J. Velasco , L. Jing , W. Bao , Y. Lee , P. Kratz , V. Aji , M. Bockrath , C. N. Lau , C. Varma , R. Stillwell , D. Smirnov , Fan Zhang , J. Jung , A. H. MacDonald

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic experiments pinpoint at a competition between distinct low-energy states with and without electronic order. We use Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) on the…

We discuss the physics of the tunable bandgap in bilayer graphene with the gate voltage and doping. A comparison with experimental data obtained by Kuzmenko et al [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{80}, 165406 (2009)] demonstrates the good agreement.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 L. A. Falkovsky

First-principles calculations can accurately describe electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions and electronic transport in a wide range of materials, but are currently limited to unit cells with up to $\sim$100 atoms due to computational cost.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 David J. Abramovitch , Marco Bernardi

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

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…

The electronic properties of doped bilayer graphene in presence of bottom and top gates have been studied and characterized by means of Density Functional Theory calculations. Varying independently the bottom and top gates it is possible to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Gava , Michele Lazzeri , A. Marco Saitta , Francesco Mauri