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We describe an angularly asymmetric interface-scattering mechanism which allows to spatially separate the electrons in the two low-energy valleys of bilayer graphene. The effect occurs at electrostatically defined interfaces separating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Henning Schomerus

The extreme mechanical resilience of graphene and the peculiar coupling it hosts between lattice and electronic degrees of freedom have spawned a strong impetus towards strain-engineered graphene where, on the one hand, strain augments the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Gareth W. Jones , D. A. Bahamon , A. H. Castro Neto , Vitor M. Pereira

2D materials based superlattices have emerged as a promising platform to modulate band structure and its symmetries. In particular, moir\'e periodicity in twisted graphene systems produces flat Chern bands. The recent observation of…

We investigate interaction effects in transport phenomena in bilayer graphene (BLG). For the minimal conductivity in pristine BLG, we find that the conductivity assumes a constant value in the limit $T\to 0$, with the first correction being…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Jonathan Lux , Lars Fritz

Valley polarized topological kink states, existing broadly in the domain wall of hexagonal lattices systems, are identified in experiments, unfortunately, only very limited physical properties being given. Using an Aharanov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shu-guang Cheng , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We present an analytical device model for a graphene bilayer field-effect transistor (GBL-FET) with a graphene bilayer as a channel, and with back and top gates. The model accounts for the dependences of the electron and hole Fermi energies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Ryzhii , M. Ryzhii , A. Satou , T. Otsuji , N. Kirova

DC photoelectrical currents can be generated purely as a non-linear effect in uniform media lacking inversion symmetry without the need for a material junction or bias voltages to drive it, in what is termed photogalvanic effect. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 F. Hipolito , Thomas G. Pedersen , Vitor M. Pereira

Trapping electrons in quantum dots and controlling their collective quantum states is crucial for converting semiconductor structures into bits of quantum information processing. Here, we study single- and two-particle states in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Angelika Knothe , Vladimir Fal'ko

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

Electronic localization is numerically studied in disordered bilayer graphene with an electric-field induced energy gap. Bilayer graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, in which an energy gap can be opened and controlled by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino

Twisted bilayer graphene gives rise to large moir\'{e} patterns that form a triangular network upon mechanical relaxation. If gating is included, each triangular region has gapped electronic Dirac points that behave as bulk topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Guillaume Bal , Paul Cazeaux , Daniel Massatt , Solomon Quinn

Strongly interacting two dimensional electron systems (2DESs) host a complex landscape of broken symmetry states. The possible ground states are further expanded by internal degrees of freedom such as spin or valley-isospin. While direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 B. M. Hunt , J. I. A. Li , A. A. Zibrov , L. Wang , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean , M. Zaletel , R. C. Ashoori , A. F. Young

We report on the observation of quantum transport and interference in a graphene device that is attached with a pair of split gates to form an electrostatically-defined quantum point contact (QPC). In the low magnetic field regime, the…

Since its discovery, Berry phase has been demonstrated to play an important role in many quantum systems. In gapped Bernal bilayer graphene, the Berry phase can be continuously tuned from zero to 2pi, which offers a unique opportunity to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Yi-Wen Liu , Zhe Hou , Si-Yu Li , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

The valley degree of freedom of electrons in solids has been proposed as a new type of information carriers beyond the electronic charge and spin. Recent experimental demonstrations of the optical orientation of the valley polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Jieun Lee , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

In this letter we report the observation of ballistic transport on micron length scales in graphene synthesised by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Transport measurements were done on Hall bar geometries in a liquid He cryostat. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 V. E. Calado , Shou-En Zhu , S. Goswami , Q. Xu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , G. C. A. M. Janssen , L. M. K. Vandersypen

Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are extraordinarily sensitive to carrier density and to controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Eva Y. Andrei , Allan H. MacDonald

We present a single barrier system to generate pure valley-polarized current in monolayer graphene. A uniaxial strain is applied within the barrier region, which is delineated by localized magnetic field created by ferromagnetic stripes at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

A parabolic quantum dot (QD) as realized by biasing nanostructured gates on bilayer graphene is investigated in the presence of electron-electron interaction. The energy spectrum and the phase diagram reveal unexpected transitions as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Zarenia , B. Partoens , T. Chakraborty , F. M. Peeters

Current semiconductor qubits rely either on the spin or on the charge degree of freedom to encode quantum information. By contrast, in bilayer graphene the valley degree of freedom, stemming from the crystal lattice symmetry, is a robust…