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Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) including interlayer interaction and rotational disorder shows anomalous electron transport as a function of twist-angles (tAs). In this work, we address the electronic properties and electron transport of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Farzaneh Shayeganfar , Ali Ramazani , Nicholas X Fang

We report an electron transport study of lithographically fabricated graphene nanoribbons of various widths and lengths at different temperatures. At the charge neutrality point, a length-independent transport gap forms whose size is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Melinda Y. Han , Juliana C. Brant , Philip Kim

Bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edge is investigated with the tight binding model. Two stacking structures, alpha and beta, are considered. The band splitting is seen in the alpha structure, while the splitting in the wave number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Osman Ozsoy

We introduce a complete physical model for the single-particle electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), which incorporates the crucial role of lattice relaxation. Our model, based on $k \cdot p$ perturbation theory, combines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Ziyan Zhu , Efthimios Kaxiras

The possibility of triggering correlated phenomena by placing a singularity of the density of states near the Fermi energy remains an intriguing avenue towards engineering the properties of quantum materials. Twisted bilayer graphene is a…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts a rich landscape of electronic phases arising from the interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and nontrivial band topology. While the flat bands near zero energy are central to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

The emergence of flat electronic bands and of the recently discovered strongly correlated and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer graphene crucially depends on the interlayer twist angle upon approaching the magic angle $\theta_M…

Motivated by recent experiments of successfully carving out stable carbon atomic chains from graphene, we investigate a device structure of a carbon chain connecting two zigzag graphene nanoribbons with highly tunable spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Yuehua Xu , Bao-Ji Wang , San-Huang Ke

A purely electronic mechanism is proposed for the unconventional superconductivity recently observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) close to the magic angle. Using the Migdal-Eliashberg framework on a one parameter effective lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Maxim Trushin , Oleg P. Sushkov , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

We present a new mechanism of carbon nanotube superconductivity that originates from edge states which are specific to graphene. Using on-site and boundary deformation potentials which do not cause bulk superconductivity, we obtain an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Sasaki , J. Jiang , R. Saito , S. Onari , Y. Tanaka

We investigate the electronic and transport properties of gated bilayer graphene with one corrugated layer, which results in a stacking AB/BA boundary. When a gate voltage is applied to one layer, topologically protected gap states appear…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Pelc , W. Jaskólski , A. Ayuela , L. Chico

Tunneling conductance between two bilayer graphene (BLG) sheets separated by 2 nm-thick insulating barrier was measured in two devices with the twist angles between BLGs less than 1{\deg}. At small bias voltages, the tunneling occurs with…

The unique ultra-relativistic, massless, nature of electron states in two-dimensional extended graphene sheets, brought about by the honeycomb lattice arrangement of carbon atoms in two-dimensions, provides ingress to explorations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…

We study the electronic structure and transport properties of zigzag and armchair monolayer molybdenum disulfide nanoribbons using an 11-band tight-binding model that accurately reproduces the material's bulk band structure near the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Emilia Ridolfi , Leandro R. F. Lima , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

The electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be dramatically different from those of a single graphene layer, in particular when the two layers are rotated relative to each other by a small angle. TBG has recently…

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

In graphene, charged defects break the electron-hole symmetry and can even give rise to exotic collapse states when the defect charge exceeds a critical value which is proportional to the Fermi velocity. In this work, we investigate the…

This study theoretically investigates the contact conductance in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), providing a theoretical explanation for recent experimental observations from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and conductive atomic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Kevin J. U. Vidarte , Caio Lewenkopf , F. Crasto de Lima , R. Hiroki Miwa , Felipe Pérez Riffo , Eric Suárez Morell