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Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene is an ideal platform to search for correlated electron phenomena, due to its pair of flat bands touching at zero energy and further tunability by an electric field. Furthermore, its valley-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Giovanni Scuri , Jiho Sung , Jue Wang , Tianyi Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongkun Park , Long Ju

We introduce a minimum tight-binding model with only three parameters extracted from graphene and untwisted bilayer graphene. This model reproduces quantitatively the electronic structure of not only these two systems and bulk graphite near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xianqing Lin , David Tománek

Interactions among charge carriers in graphene can lead to the spontaneous breaking of multiple degeneracies. When increasing the number of graphene layers following rhombohedral stacking, the dominant role of Coulomb interactions becomes…

A universal set of third--nearest neighbour tight--binding (TB) parameters is presented for calculation of the quasiparticle (QP) dispersion of $N$ stacked $sp^2$ graphene layers ($N=1... \infty$) with $AB$ stacking sequence. The QP bands…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Grüneis , C. Attaccalite , L. Wirtz , H. Shiozawa R. Saito , T. Pichler , A. Rubio

Topologically protected flat surface bands make thin films of rhombohedral graphite an appealing platform for searching for strongly correlated states of 2D electrons. In this work, we study rhombohedral graphite with a twin boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Sergey Slizovskiy , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We construct exact ground states of interacting electrons on triangle and diamond Hubbard chains. The construction requires (i) a rewriting of the Hamiltonian into positive semidefinite form, (ii) the construction of a many-electron ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Zsolt Gulacsi , Arno Kampf , Dieter Vollhardt

The topological electronic structure of crystalline materials often gives rise to intriguing surface states, such as Dirac surface states in topological insulators, Fermi arc surface states in Dirac semimetals, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Wenqiang Zhou , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

Flat bands in graphitic materials emerged as a platform for realizing tunable correlated physics. As a nodal-line semimetal, rhombohedral graphite features flat drumhead surface states in the vicinity of the Dirac points, which carry a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xiaoqian Liu , Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev

We report on Hybrid-Monte-Carlo simulations of the tight-binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions for the electronic properties of graphene. We investigate the spontaneous breaking of sublattice symmetry corresponding to a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-05-28 Dominik Smith , Lorenz von Smekal

In this work, we study the synergistic correlated states in two distinct types of interacting electronic systems coupled by interlayer Coulomb interactions. We propose that this scenario can be realized in a type of Coulomb-coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Xin Lu , Shihao Zhang , Yaning Wang , Xiang Gao , Kaining Yang , Zhongqing Guo , Yuchen Gao , Yu Ye , Zheng Vitto Han , Jianpeng Liu

We investigate in detail the $\nu=+1$ displacement-field-tuned interacting phase diagram of $L=3,4,5,6,7$ layer rhombohedral graphene aligned to hBN (R$L$G/hBN). Our calculations account for the 3D nature of the Coulomb interaction, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-08 Yves H. Kwan , Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Dmitri K. Efetov , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

We present a high-accuracy procedure for electronic structure calculations of strongly correlated materials. To address limitations in current electronic structure methods, we employ density functional theory in combination with the…

A simple model based on the divide and conquer rule and tight-binding (TB) approximation is employed for studying the role of finite size effect on the electronic properties of elongated graphene nanoribbon (GNR) heterojunctions. In our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Benjamin O. Tayo

We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in a system of spinless fermions in the Honeycomb lattice paying special emphasis to the role of an enlarged unit cell on time reversal symmetry broken phases. We use a tight binding model with nearest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 Adolfo G. Grushin , Eduardo V. Castro , Alberto Cortijo , Fernando de Juan , Maria A. H. Vozmediano , Belen Valenzuela

We study theoretically the effects of short-range electron-electron interactions on the electronic structure of graphene, in the presence of single substitutional impurities. Our computational approach is based on the $\pi$ orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Faluke Aikebaier , Anna Pertsova , Carlo M. Canali

We study the quantum many-body ground states of electrons on the half-filled honeycomb lattice with short- and long-ranged density-density interactions as a model for graphene. To this end, we employ the recently developed truncated-unity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 David Sánchez de la Peña , Julian Lichtenstein , Carsten Honerkamp , Michael M. Scherer

Multi-layer graphene on the carbon face of silicon carbide is an intriguing electronic system which typically consists of a stack of ten or more layers. Rotational stacking faults in this system dramatically reduce inter-layer coherence. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 Rosario E. V. Profumo , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , Rosario Fazio , A. H. MacDonald

Multilayer rhombohedral graphene (RG) has recently emerged as a new, structurally simple flat-band system, which facilitates the exploration of interaction-driven correlation states with highly ordered electron arrangements. Despite a…

We show that in a two-dimensional electron gas with an annular Fermi surface, long-range Coulomb interactions can lead to unconventional superconductivity by the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. Superconductivity is strongly enhanced when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-15 Areg Ghazaryan , Tobias Holder , Maksym Serbyn , Erez Berg

Flat band systems have recently attracted significant attention due to their instability under small perturbations, which can lead to the stabilization of many exotic quantum phases. We study a trimer ladder which shows a middle flat band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-26 Sourabh Saha , Hosho Katsura , Manoranjan Kumar