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Here we study the evolution of local electronic properties of a twisted graphene bilayer induced by a strain and a high curvature. The strain and curvature strongly affect the local band structures of the twisted graphene bilayer; the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wei Yan , Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We investigate physical properties that can be used to distinguish the valley degree of freedom in systems where inversion symmetry is broken, using graphene systems as examples. We show that the pseudospin associated with the valley index…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 Di Xiao , Wang Yao , Qian Niu

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

We develop a weak coupling approach to superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, starting from the Fermi liquid regime. A key observation is that near half filling, the fermiology consists of well nested Fermi pockets derived from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-25 Yi-Zhuang You , Ashvin Vishwanath

Graphene pn junction is the brick to build up variety of graphene nano-structures. The analytical formula of the conductance of graphene gradual pn junctions in the whole bipolar region has been absent up to now. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-07 Mou Yang , Rui-Qiang Wang , Yan-Kui Bai

Electron transport in a graphene quantum well can be analogous to photon transmission in an optical fiber. In this work, we present a detailed theoretical analysis to study the transport characteristics of graphene waveguides under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Nayyar Abbas Shah , Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo

We argue that at finite carrier density and large displacement fields, bilayer graphene is prone to $\ell =0$ and $\ell = 1$ Pomeranchuk Fermi surface instabilities. The broken symmetries are driven by non-local exchange interactions which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Jeil Jung , Marco Polini , Allan H. MacDonald

Valley is a useful degree of freedom for non-dissipative electronics since valley current that can flow even in an insulating material does not accompany electronic current. We use dual-gated bilayer graphene in the Hall bar geometry to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Yuya Shimazaki , Michihisa Yamamoto , Ivan V. Borzenets , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Seigo Tarucha

We analyse the interaction between charges and graphene layers. The electric polarisability of graphene induces a force, that can be described by an image charge. The analysis shows that graphene can be described as an imperfect conductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

We investigate the valley relaxation due to intervalley coupling in a single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot. The valley relaxation is assisted by both the emission of acoustic phonons via the deformation potential and bond-length…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Lin Wang , Guido Burkard

Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 B. C. Worley , S. Kim , T. J. Ha , S. Park , R. Haws , P. Rossky , D. Akinwande , A. Dodabalapur

Here we report a facile method to generate a high density of point defects in graphene on metal foil and show how the point defects affect the electronic structures of graphene layers. Our scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Hui Yan , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Ke-Ke Bai , Xuejiao Wang , Mengxi Liu , Wei Yan , Lan Meng , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Yugui Yao , Lin He

The low-temperature phase diagram of multilayer graphene heterostructures is largely defined by the exchange-driven instability that lifts the four-fold isospin degeneracy. Such instability gives rise to the quarter- and half-metal phases,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Jiang-Xiazi Lin , Yibang Wang , Naiyuan J. Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , J. I. A. Li

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene displays the occurrence of a magnetic surface state at low temperatures. Recent angular resolved photoemission experiments demonstrate the robustness of the magnetic state in long sequences of ABC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Jacopo Baima , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra

Electronic transport in a graphene-based ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic junction is investigated by means of Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formulism and the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. For the zigzag edge case, the results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jiang-chai Chen , Shu-guang Cheng , Shun-Qing Shen , Qing-feng Sun

Electronic localization is numerically studied in disordered bilayer graphene with an electric-field induced energy gap. Bilayer graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, in which an energy gap can be opened and controlled by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino

The wave nature of electrons in low-dimensional structures manifests itself in conventional electrical measurements as a quantum correction to the classical conductance. This correction comes from the interference of scattered electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-27 F. V. Tikhonenko , A. A. Kozikov , A. K. Savchenko , R. V. Gorbachev

We report our theoretical calculations on the temperature and energy dependent electrical conductivity of gapped graphene within the framework of Boltzmann transport formalism. Since screening effects have known to be of vital importance in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Digish K Patel , A C Sharma , S S Z Ashraf

Two-dimensional (2D) ferrovalley semiconductor (FVSC) with spontaneous valley polarization offers an exciting material platform for probing Berry phase physics. How FVSC can be incorporated in valleytronic device applications, however,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Xukun Feng , Chit Siong Lau , Shi-Jun Liang , Ching Hua Lee , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yee Sin Ang

In this paper, we study valley degree of freedom in all dielectric silicon photonic graphene. Photonic band gap opening physics under inversion symmetry breaking is revisited by the viewpoint of nonzero valley Chern number. Bulk valley…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiao-Dong Chen , Jian-Wen Dong