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Electron wavefunctions in twisted bilayer graphene may have a strong single layer character or be intrinsically delocalized between layers, with their nature often determined by how energetically close they are to the Dirac point. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

Quantum coherent effects can be probed in multilayer graphene through electronic transport measurements at low temperatures. In particular, bilayer graphene is known to be susceptible to quantum interference corrections of the conductivity,…

Spontaneous intervalley coherence is suspected in several different graphene multilayer systems, but is difficult to confirm because of a paucity of convenient experimental signatures. Here we suggest that magneto-conductance features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Nemin Wei , Yongxin Zeng , A. H. MacDonald

We analyze the effect of weak localization (WL) and weak antilocalization (WAL) in the electronic transport through HgTe/CdTe quantum wells. We show that for increasing Fermi energy the magnetoconductance of a diffusive system with inverted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 Viktor Krueckl , Klaus Richter

The paper examines weak localization (WL) of surface states with a quadratic band crossing in topological crystalline insulators. It is shown that the topology of the quadratic band crossing point dictates the negative sign of the WL…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-06 G. Tkachov

At low temperatures, quantum corrections, originating from the interference of the many paths an electron may take between two points, tend to dominate the transport properties of two-dimensional conductors. These quantum corrections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Frederico Sousa , David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

Weak antilocalization (WAL) effect due to the interference corrections to the conductivity has been studied experimentally in a strained InGaAs/InP quantum well structure. From measurements in tilted magnetic filed, it was shown that both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Studenikin , P. T. Coleridge , P. J. Poole

The existence of strong trigonal warping around the K point for the low energy electronic states in multilayer (N$\geq$2) graphene films and graphite is well established. It is responsible for phenomena such as Lifshitz transitions and…

In this theoretical study, we explore the manner in which the quantum correction due to weak localization is suppressed in weakly-disordered graphene, when it is subjected to the application of a non-zero voltage. Using a nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 J. Fransson , R. Somphonsane , H. Ramamoorthy , G. He , J. P. Bird

We study quantum interference corrections to the conductivity in (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors using a model with disordered valence band holes coupled to localized Mn moments through a p-d kinetic-exchange interaction. We find…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Ion Garate , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras

Transport in ultrathin graphite grown on silicon carbide is dominated by the electron-doped epitaxial layer at the interface. Weak anti-localization in 2D samples manifests itself as a broad cusp-like depression in the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaosong Wu , Xuebin Li , Zhimin Song , Claire Berger , Walt A. de Heer

We fabricated and measured antidot lattices in single layer graphene with lattice periods down to 90 nm. In large-period lattices, a well-defined quantum Hall effect is observed. Going to smaller antidot spacings the quantum Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-01 J. Eroms , D. Weiss

Here we study the evolution of local electronic properties of a twisted graphene bilayer induced by a strain and a high curvature. The strain and curvature strongly affect the local band structures of the twisted graphene bilayer; the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wei Yan , Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We report measurements of magnetoresistance in bilayer graphene as a function of gate voltage (carrier density) and temperature. We examine multiple contributions to the magnetoresistance, including those of weak localization (WL),…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-10 Yung-Fu Chen , Myung-Ho Bae , Cesar Chialvo , Travis Dirks , Alexey Bezryadin , Nadya Mason

Near a magic twist angle, the lowest energy conduction and valence bands of bilayer graphene moir\'e superlattices become extremely narrow. The band dispersion that remains is sensitive to the moir\'e's strain pattern, nonlocal tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

We demonstrate manipulation of quantum interference by controlling the competitions between weak localization (WL) and weak antilocalization (WAL) via variation of the gate voltages of double- gate amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Wei-Hsiang Wang , Elica Heredia , Syue-Ru Lyu , Shu-Hao Liu , Po-Yung Liao , Ting-Chang Chang , Pei-hsun Jiang

In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Allan H. MacDonald

We have used ab initio density functional theory, incorporating van der Waals corrections, to study twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) where Stone-Wales defects or monovacancies are introduced in one of the layers. We compare these results to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-30 Kanchan Ulman , Shobhana Narasimhan

We study a weakly disordered 2D electron gas with two bands and a spectral node within the weak-localization approach and compare its results with those of Gaussian fluctuations around the self-consistent Born approximation. The appearance…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-06 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner