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By merging bottom-up and top-down strategies we tailor graphene's electronic properties within nanometer accuracy, which opens up the possibility to design optical and plasmonic circuitries at will. In a first step, graphene electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 A. J. Martínez-Galera , I. Brihuega , A. Gutiérrez-Rubio , T. Stauber , J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

We propose an optical method of shining circularly polarized and spatially periodic laser fields to imprint superlattice structures in two-dimensional electronic systems. By changing the configuration of the optical field, we synthesize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Hwanmun Kim , Hossein Dehghani , Hideo Aoki , Ivar Martin , Mohammad Hafezi

In this work we study theoretically the electronic properties of a sheet of graphene grown on a periodic heterostructure substrate. We write an effective Dirac equation, which includes a dependence of both the band gap and the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-12 Jonas R. F. Lima , F. Moraes

The electronic properties of a material depend on the spatial freedom of the electron wavefunction. A well-known example is graphite, which is a conventional gapless semiconductor, while a single layer of it, graphene, exhibits extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammadamir Bazrafshan , Thomas. D. Kühne

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 the electronic properties of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) subjected to a periodic patterned gate. By incorporating the superlattice (SL) potential induced by patterning into the Schrodinger equation, we develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Zhen Zhan , Siddhartha E. Morales , Gerardo G. Naumis

Superconductivity in single-layer graphene has attracted considerable interest. Here, using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, we study transitions of superconductivity and magnetism in a monolayer graphene with a special periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Jingyao Meng , Runyu Ma , Tianxing Ma , Hai-Qing Lin

A number of interesting properties of graphene and graphite are postulated to derive from the peculiar bandstructure of graphene. This bandstructure consists of conical electron and hole pockets that meet at a single point in momentum (k)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Thomas Seyller , K. Horn , Eli Rotenberg

Using the tight-binding approach, we analyze the effect of a one-dimensional superlattice (1DSL) potential on the electronic structure of black phosphorene and transition metal dichalcogenides. We observe that the 1DSL potential results in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Shota Ono

Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a superlattice potential is a highly tunable system predicted to realize isolated topological flat bands. In this work we calculate the band structure and quantum geometry of bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Dathan Ault-McCoy , M. Nabil Y. Lhachemi , Aaron Dunbrack , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

Recent studies show that periodic potentials can generate superlattice Dirac points at energies in graphene (is the Fermi velocity of graphene and G is the reciprocal superlattice vector). Here, we perform scanning tunneling microscopy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Hui Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Wei Yan , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Mudan Yang , Yide Fan , Jiang Wang , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Strain-engineered graphene has garnered much attention recently owing to the possibilities of creating substantial energy gaps enabled by pseudo-magnetic fields. While theoretical works proposed the possibility of creating large-area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 M. Luo , H. Sun , Z. Qi , K. Lu , M. Chen , D. Kang , Y. Kim , D. Burt , X. Yu , C. Wang , Y. D. Kim , H. Wang , Q. -J. Wang , D. Nam

Novel materials are in great demand for future applications. The discovery of graphene, a one atom thick carbon layer, holds the promise for unique device architectures and functionalities exploiting unprecedented physical phenomena. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 M. F. Craciun , S. Russo , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha

We study a novel type of graphene-based superlattices formed owing to a periodic modulation of the Fermi surface. Such a modulation is possible for graphene deposited on a striped substrate made of materials with substantially different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 P. V. Ratnikov , A. P. Silin

Electron scattering problem in the monolayer graphene with short-range impurities is considered. The main novel element in the suggested model is the band asymmetry of the defect potential in the 2+1-dimensional Dirac equation. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Natalie E. Firsova

We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly commensurate to a $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene, albeit with half as many degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Aaron Dunbrack , Daniele Guerci , John Bonini , Jennifer Cano

Two-dimensional atomic crystals can radically change their properties in response to external influences such as substrate orientation or strain, resulting in essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. A striking…

When atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are layered they often form incommensurate non-crystalline structures that exhibit long-period moir{\' e} patterns when examined by scanning probes. In this paper we present an approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Jeil Jung , Arnaud Raoux , Zhenhua Qiao , Allan H. MacDonald

We study the symmetries of twisted trilayer graphene's band structure under various extrinsic perturbations, and analyze the role of long-range electron-electron interactions near the first magic angle. The electronic structure is modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Vo Tien Phong , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Tommaso Cea , Francisco Guinea

Recent observations of superconductivity in Moire graphene have lead to an intense interest in that system, with subsequent studies revealing a more complex phase diagram including correlated insulators and ferromagnetic phases. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Z. E. Krix , O. P. Sushkov