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We present theoretical studies of morphology, stability, and electronic structure of monolayer hexagonal CBN alloys with rich content of h-BN and carbon concentration not exceeding 50 %. Our studies are based on the bond order type of the…
Negatively charged boron vacancy (VB-) defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising for nanoscale-proximity quantum sensing. To evaluate their performance, it is important to characterize the spin coherence times T2* and T2. In…
There is a large discrepancy between the experimental observations and the theoretical predictions in the morphology of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets. Theoretically-predicted hexagons terminated by armchair edges are not…
A real-space method using generating integers is used to classify the possible moire patterns for two equal hexagonal lattices. The result is that the rotations that take (n,m) to (m,n) with n,m relatively prime form the fundamental moire…
A first modeling approximation of the general performance of radiofrequency (RF) switches based on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a two-dimensional (2D) dielectric material is presented. The I-V characteristics intrinsic and extrinsic…
We employ a tight-binding parametrization based on the Slater Koster model in order to fit the band structures of single-layer, bilayer and bulk black phosphorus obtained from first-principles calculations. We find that our model, which…
We propose a general principle for the low-energy theory of narrow bands with concentrated Berry curvature and Fubini-Study metric in the form of a map to Anderson-"+" models composed of heavy fermions hybridizing and interacting with…
We simulate the attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS) of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) using the time-dependent density functional theory and two-band density-matrix equations within the tight-binding approximation.…
Van der Waals heterostructures formed by assembling different two-dimensional atomic crystals into stacks can lead to many new phenomena and device functionalities. In particular, graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures have emerged as a…
Twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/hBN) hosts rich topological and correlated quantum phases, such as (fractional) Chern insulators, whose character is dictated by the topology of the moir\'{e} flat band.…
We investigate the electronic properties of heterostructures based on ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) crystalline layers sandwiched between two layers of graphene as well as other conducting materials (graphite, gold). The tunnel…
Van der Waals heterostructures, vertical stacks of layered materials, offer newopportunities for novel quantum phenomena which are absent in their constituent components. Here we report the emergence of polaron quasiparticles at the…
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and graphite are structurally similar but with very different properties. Their combination in graphene-based devices meets now a huge research focus, and it becomes particularly important to evaluate the role…
\textit{Ab initio} pseudo-atomic orbital (PAO) Hamiltonians express the electronic structure of a solid in a compact, localized basis that spans the same Hilbert space as a conventional Slater--Koster tight-binding model, thereby providing…
ABC-stacked trilayer graphene/hBN moir\'e superlattice (TLG/hBN) has emerged as a playground for correlated electron physics. We report spectroscopy measurements of dual-gated TLG/hBN using Fourier transformed infrared photocurrent…
We report on the observation of Coulomb drag between graphene-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moir\'{e} heterostructure with a moir\'{e} wavelength of $\sim$14 nm and an intrinsic graphene with a lattice constant of $\sim$0.25 nm. By tuning…
Moire superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its derived structures can host exotic correlated quantum phenomena because the narrow moire flat minibands in those systems effectively enhance the electron-electron interaction.…
We present a computationally efficient transferable single-band tight-binding model (SBTB) for spin polarized transport in heterostructures with an effort to capture the band structure effects. As an example, we apply it to study transport…
We provide a formal derivation of a reduced model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) from Density Functional Theory. Our derivation is based on a variational approximation of the TBG Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian and asymptotic limit techniques. In…
A dramatic difference between the vertical thermal conductance response of homogeneous and heterogeneous graphene/h-BN interfaces to external mechanical perturbations, is predicted. Homogeneous graphene and h-BN interfaces exhibit strong…