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Many exotic properties in rhombohedral (or ABC-stacked) multilayer graphene have recently been reported experimentally. In this Letter, we first reveal the underlying mechanism of spin degeneracy lifting in rhombohedral trilayer graphene.…

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We construct a continuum model of twisted trilayer graphene using {\it ab initio} density-functional-theory calculations, and apply it to address twisted trilayer electronic structure. Our model accounts for moir\'e variation in site…

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Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) comprises two Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene sheets with a twist between them. Gate voltages applied to top and back gates of a tDBG device tune both the flatness and topology of the electronic bands,…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking provides a powerful window into the nature of underlying electronic orders. In strongly correlated systems, multiple symmetry-breaking orders can arise simultaneously. and their interplay generates an intricate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erin Morissette , Peiyu Qin , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. I. A. Li

The stacking order degree of freedom in trilayer graphene plays a critical role in determining the existence of an electric field tunable band gap. We present spatially-resolved tunneling spectroscopy measurements of dual gated Bernal (ABA)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 Matthew Yankowitz , Fenglin Wang , Chun Ning Lau , Brian J. LeRoy

When two graphene sheets are twisted relative to each other by a small angle, enhanced correlations lead to superconductivity whose origin remains under debate. Here, we derive some general constraints on superconductivity in twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Eslam Khalaf , Patrick Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath

The electronic and optical response of Bernal stacked bilayer graphene with geometry modulation and gate voltage are studied. The broken symmetry in sublattices, one dimensional periodicity perpendicular to the domain wall and out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Bor-Luen Huang , Chih-Piao Chuu , Ming-Fa Lin

Interlayer sliding degrees of freedom often determine the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In graphene, for instance, the metastable rhombohedral stacking arrangement hosts correlated and topological electronic phases,…

Few-layer graphene (FLG) has been predicted to exist in various crystallographic stacking sequences, which can strongly influence the electronic properties of FLG. We demonstrate an accurate and efficient method to characterize stacking…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-01 Chun Hung Lui , Zhiqiang Li , Zheyuan Chen , Paul V. Klimov , Louis E. Brus , Tony F. Heinz

We observed distinct interlayer shear mode Raman spectra for trilayer graphene with ABA and ABC stacking order. There are two rigid-plane shear-mode phonon branches in trilayer graphene. We found that ABA trilayers exhibit pronounced Raman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Chun Hung Lui , Zhipeng Ye , Courtney Keiser , Eduardo B. Barros , Rui He

Focusing on the twist angle for the minimal commensurate structure, we perform nonperturbative calculations of electron dynamics in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under intense laser fields. We show that the TBG exhibits enriched…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

ABC-stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) are predicted to exhibit novel many-body phenomena due to the existence of almost dispersionless flat-band structures near the charge neutrality point (CNP). Here, using high magnetic field scanning…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-17 Long-Jing Yin , Li-Juan Shi , Si-Yu Li , Yu Zhang , Zi-Han Guo , Lin He

Due to its potential connection with nematicity, electronic anisotropy has been the subject of intense research effort on a wide variety of material platforms. The emergence of spatial anisotropy not only offers a characterization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Naiyuan J. Zhang , Yibang Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Oskar Vafek , J. I. A. Li

Motivated by the recent experimental detection of superconductivity in Bernal bilayer (AB) and rhombohedral trilayer (ABC) graphene, we study the emergence of superconductivity in multilayer graphene based on a Kohn-Luttinger (KL)-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Ziyan Li , Xueheng Kuang , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea

Graphene moir\'e superlattices display electronic flat bands. At integer fillings of these flat bands, energy gaps due to strong electron-electron interactions are generally observed. However, the presence of other correlation-driven phases…

Twisted 2D layered materials have garnered a lot of attention recently as a class of 2D materials whose interlayer interactions and electronic properties are dictated by the relative rotation / twist angle between the adjacent layers. In…

Crystal symmetry of two-dimensional (2D) materials plays an important role in their electronic and optical properties. Engineering symmetry in 2D materials has recently emerged as a promising way to achieve novel properties and functions.…

Using a Green's function approach, we study phonon-mediated superconducting pairing symmetries that may arise in bilayer graphene where the monolayers are displaced in-plane with respect to each other. We consider a generic coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-26 Mohammad Alidoust , Morten Willatzen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Strain, both naturally occurring and deliberately engineered, can have a considerable effect on the structural and electronic properties of 2D and layered materials. Uniaxial or biaxial heterostrain modifies the stacking arrangement of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-19 Nina C. Georgoulea , Stephen R. Power , Nuala M. Caffrey

We study the electronic structure of alternating-twist tetralayer graphene, especially near its magic angle $\theta = 1.75^\circ$, for different AA, AB, and SP sliding geometries at their middle interface that divides two twisted bilayer…

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