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It is well established that some kinds of lattice deformations in graphene monolayer, which change electron hopping in sublattice and affect in-plane motion of electrons, may induce out-of-plane pseudo-magnetic fields as large as 100 T.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Wen-Yu He , Ying Su , Mudan Yang , Lin He

We investigate topological phases of bilayer graphene subject to antiferromagnetic exchange field, interlayer bias, and irradiated by light. We discover that at finite bias and light intensity the system transitions into a previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

Current semiconductor qubits rely either on the spin or on the charge degree of freedom to encode quantum information. By contrast, in bilayer graphene the valley degree of freedom, stemming from the crystal lattice symmetry, is a robust…

We report on spin transport features which are unique to high quality bilayer graphene, in absence of magnetic contaminants and strong intervalley mixing. The time-dependent spin polarization of propagating wavepacket is computed using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Dinh Van Tuan , Shaffique Adam , Stephan Roche

We present a study on the lifting of degeneracy of the size-quantized energy levels in an electrostatically defined quantum point contact in bilayer graphene by the application of in-plane magnetic fields. We observe a Zeeman spin splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Vanessa Gall , Rainer Kraft , Igor V. Gornyi , Romain Danneau

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 J. W. Gonzalez , H. Santos , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We have studied the spin-splitting effect in a four-terminal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas system with two potential barriers generated by two surface metal gates and an external perpendicular magnetic field. The calculations show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zijiang Wang , Jianhong He , Huazhong Guo

We propose a model of spin-polarized-current state for electrons in bilayer graphene. The model resolves the puzzles as revealed by experiments that (a) the energy gap $E_{\rm gap}$ of the insulating ground state at the charge neutrality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-14 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

In a quantizing magnetic field, the chiral two-dimensional electron gas in Landau level $N=0$ of bilayer graphene goes through a series of phase transitions at integer filling factors $\nu \in \left[ -3,3\right] $ when the strength of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Côté , Manuel Barrette , Élie Bouffard

The salient property of the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), at the so-called magic angle (MA), is the emergence of flat bands around the charge neutrality point. These bands are associated with the observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Sonia Haddad , Takeo Kato , Jihang Zhu , Lassaad Mandhour

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…

In this report we give a brief introduction on the occurrence of topologically protected one-dimensional electronic states in group IV two-dimensional graphene-like materials. We discuss the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 H. J. W. Zandvliet , J. D. Verbakel , Q. Yao , K. Sotthewes , P. Bampoulis

We investigate the electronic confinement in bilayer graphene by topological loops of different shapes. These loops are created by lateral gates acting via gap inversion on the two graphene sheets. For large-area loops the spectrum is well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Nassima Benchtaber , David Sánchez , Llorenç Serra

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Electronic properties of bilayer and multilayer graphene have generally been interpreted in terms of AB or Bernal stacking. However, it is known that many types of stacking defects can occur in natural and synthetic graphite; rotation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

We investigate the electronic structure of alternating-twist triple Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (t3BG) as a function of interlayer coupling $\omega$, twist angle $\theta$, interlayer potential difference $\Delta$, and top-bottom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jiseon Shin , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Yunsu Jang , Hongki Min , Jeil Jung

We investigate, within the envelope function approximation, the low-energy states of trions in graphene quantum dots. The presence of valley pseudospin in graphene as an electron degree of freedom apart from spin adds convolution to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 H. -C. Cheng , N. -Y. Lue , Y. -C. Chen , G. Y. Wu

We examine the possibility of using graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with directly substituted chromium atoms as spintronic device. Using density functional theory, we simulate a voltage bias across a constructed GNR in a device setup, where a…

We propose a mechanism to drive singlet-triplet spin transitions electrically, in a wide class of graphene nanostructures that present pairs of in-gap zero modes, localized at opposite sublattices. Examples are rectangular nanographenes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 R. Ortiz , N. A. García-Martínez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell