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We have surveyed the in-plane transport properties of the graphene twist bilayer using (i) a low-energy effective Hamiltonian for the underlying electronic structure, (ii) an isotropic elastic phonon model, and (iii) the linear Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Ray , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel correlated physics of these systems. While a significant number…

Dynamic wavelength tunability has long been the holy grail of photodetector technology. Because of its atomic thickness and unique properties, graphene opens up new paradigms to realize this concept, but so far this has been elusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 François Léonard , Catalin D. Spataru , Michael Goldflam , David W. Peters , Thomas E. Beechem

Graphene moir\'e systems are ideal environments for investigating complex phase diagrams and gaining fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying exotic states of matter, as they permit controlled manipulation of electronic…

According to electronic structure theory, bilayer graphene is expected to have anomalous electronic properties when it has long-period moir\'e patterns produced by small misalignments between its individual layer honeycomb lattices. We have…

We study ballistic transport in bilayer graphene junctions and show how electrostatic gating, interlayer bias, and homogeneous strain provide complementary control over electron transmission. In the absence of strain, transport is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dan-Na Liu , Jun Zheng , Pierre A. Pantaleon

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

Recently, Lee \textit{et. al.} [Nano Lett. \textbf{21}, 4305 (2021)] newly synthesized monochalcogenide GeSe in a polar phase, referred to as $\gamma$-phase. Motivated by this work, we study shift current of $\gamma$-GeSe and its tunability…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-14 Hong-Guk Min , Churlhi Lyi , Youngkuk Kim

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen

Stackings in graphene have a pivotal role in properties to be discussed in the future, as seen in the recently found superconductivity of twisted bilayer graphene. Beyond bilayer graphene, the stacking order of multilayer graphene can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Raúl Guerrero-Avilés , Marta Pelc , Fabian Geisenhof , Thomas Weitz , Andrés Ayuela

We devise a model to explain why twisted bi-layer graphene (TBLG) exhibits insulating behavior when $\nu=2,3$ charges occupy a unit moir\'e cell, a feature attributed to Mottness, but not for $\nu=1$, clearly inconsistent with Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-15 Bikash Padhi , Chandan Setty , Philip W. Phillips

First-principles calculations can accurately describe electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions and electronic transport in a wide range of materials, but are currently limited to unit cells with up to $\sim$100 atoms due to computational cost.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 David J. Abramovitch , Marco Bernardi

Trilayer graphene allows systematic control of its electronic structure through stacking sequence and twist geometry, providing a versatile platform for correlated states. Here we report magnetotransport in alternating twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Dohun Kim , Gyeoul Lee , Nicolas Leconte , Seyoung Jin , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jeil Jung , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Recent experiments on multilayer graphene materials have discovered a plethora of correlated phases, including ferromagnetism and superconductivity, in the absence of a moir\'{e} potential. These findings pose an intriguing question of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-14 Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) recently exhibited robust superconductivity at a higher transition temperature (TC) than the bilayer version. With electric gating from both the top and bottom sides, the superconductivity was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Shujin Li , Guanyuan Zheng , Junlin Huang

Twisted bilayers of nodal superconductors were recently proposed as a promising platform to host superconducting phases that spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry. Here we extend this analysis to twisted multilayers, focusing on two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-28 Tarun Tummuru , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Marcel Franz

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

`More is Different' (Anderson, 1972) in graphene. A bilayer and a twist spring surprises. Recently discovered superconductivity (T$_c\approx$ 1.7 K) at an ultra low doping density $\sim 10^{11}$cm${}^{-2}$ has alerted the community to look…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-03 Ganapathy Baskaran

We study the optical response of the alternating twisted trilayer graphene by making use of a unitary transformation for the trilayer Hamiltonian and the Kubo formulation of linear response theory. The layer-resolved optical conductivities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Dionisios Margetis , Guillermo Gómez-Santos , Tobias Stauber

By exploiting singular spatial modulations of the graphene conductivity, we design a broadband, tunable THz absorber whose efficiency approaches the theoretical upper bound for a wide absorption band with a fractional bandwidth of 185\%.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Emanuele Galiffi , John Pendry , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro