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A driven Ising model with friction due to magnetic correlations has recently been proposed by Kadau et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 137205 (2008)). The non-equilibrium phase transition present in this system is investigated in detail using…

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Even as the understanding of the mechanism behind correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene converges towards various kinds of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the metallic "normal state" above the insulating…

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The transient evolution of carriers in an intrinsic graphene under ultrafast excitation, which is caused by the collisionless interband transitions, is studied theoretically. The energy relaxation due to the quasielastic acoustic phonon…

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Charge-neutral conducting systems represent a class of materials with unusual properties governed by electron-hole (e-h) interactions. Depending on the quasiparticles' statistics, band structure, and device geometry these semimetallic…

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We study spin dependent transport through a magnetic bilayer graphene nanojunction configured as two dimensional normal/ferromagnetic/normal structure where the gate-voltage is applied on the layers of ferromagnetic graphene. Based on the…

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Superconductivity often occurs close to broken-symmetry parent states and is especially common in doped magnetic insulators. When twisted close to a magic relative orientation angle near 1 degree, bilayer graphene has flat moire…

Electron bands in the untwisted bilayer graphene flatten out in a transverse electric field, offering a promising platform for correlated electron physics. We predict that the spin/valley isospin magnetism, resembling that seen in moir\'{e}…

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We consider a clean quantum system subject to strong periodic driving. The existence of a dominant energy scale, $h_D^x$, can generate considerable structure in an effective description of a system which, in the absence of the drive, is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-14 Asmi Haldar , Diptiman Sen , Roderich Moessner , Arnab Das

We analyse biased ensembles of trajectories for the random-field Ising model on a fully-connected lattice, which is described exactly by mean-field theory. By coupling the activity of the system to a dynamical biasing field, we find a range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jules Guioth , Robert L. Jack

A nonuniform extension of the Glauber model on a one-dimensional lattice with boundaries is investigated. Based on detailed balance, reaction rates are proposed for the system. The static behavior of the system is investigated. It is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-17 Mohammad Khorrami , Amir Aghamohammadi

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

We study the atomic structure of twisted bilayer graphene, with very small mismatch angles ($\theta \sim 0.28^0$), a topic of intense recent interest. We use simulations, in which we combine a recently presented semi-empirical potential for…

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Moir\'e phonons describe collective vibrations of a moir\'e superlattice produced by long-wavelength relative displacements of the constituent layers. Despite coming from the backfolding of the acoustic phonons of the individual layers,…

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A real-space formulation is given for the recently discussed exciton condensate in a symmetrically biased graphene bilayer. We show that in the continuum limit an oddly-quantized vortex in this condensate binds exactly one zero mode per…

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We consider the problem of numerically computing the quantum dynamics of an electron in twisted bilayer graphene. The challenge is that atomic-scale models of the dynamics are aperiodic for generic twist angles because of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Tianyu Kong , Diyi Liu , Mitchell Luskin , Alexander B. Watson

Correlated insulators and superconductivity have been observed in "magic-angle" twisted bilayer graphene, when the nearly flat bands close to neutrality are partially filled. While a momentum-space continuum model accurately describes these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-04 Hoi Chun Po , Liujun Zou , T. Senthil , Ashvin Vishwanath

We present infrared spectra (0.1-1 eV) of electrostatically gated bilayer graphene as a function of doping and compare it with tight binding calculations. All major spectral features corresponding to the expected interband transitions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. B. Kuzmenko , E. van Heumen , D. van der Marel , P. Lerch , P. Blake , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Hard constraints imposed in statistical mechanics models can lead to interesting thermodynamical behaviors, but may at the same time raise obstructions in the thoroughfare to thermal equilibration. Here we study a variant of Baxter's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-30 C. Castelnovo , P. Pujol , C. Chamon

The only kinematically-allowed phonon-scattering events for bands of subsonic fermions ($v_F < v_p$) are interband transitions, leading to different low-$T$ transport physics than in the typical supersonic case. We apply a kinetic theory of…

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