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Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

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Moir\'e materials, with superlattice periodicity many times the atomic length scale, have enabled the studies of strong electronic correlations and band topology with unprecedented tunability. However, nonvolatile control of the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Kaifei Kang , Wenjin Zhao , Yihang Zeng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

One-dimensional graphene superlattice subjected to strong Kronig-Penney (KP) potential is promising for achieving electron lensing effect, while previous studies utilizing the modulated dielectric gates can only yield a moderate, spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Tianlin Li , Hanying Chen , Kun Wang , Yifei Hao , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xia Hong

We propose that a weakly spontaneous charge-ordered insulating state probably exists in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene which can account for experimentally observed non-monotonic behavior of resistance as a function of the gated field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Xiu-Cai Jiang , Ze-Yi Song , Ze Ruan , Yu-Zhong Zhang

We investigate spin transport through ferromagnetic graphene vertical heterostructures where a sandwiched tunneling layer is either a normal or ferroelectric insulator. We show that the spin-polarization of the tunneling current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Nojoon Myoung , Hee Chul Park , Seung Joo Lee

Controlling the bandstructure of Dirac materials is of wide interest in current research but has remained an outstanding challenge for systems such as monolayer graphene. In contrast, Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a highly flexible…

Graphene-based systems have emerged as a rich platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena-including superconductivity, magnetism, and correlated insulating behavior-arising from flat electronic bands that enhance many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Xinyu Cai , Fengfan Ren , Qiao Li , Yanran Shi , Yifan Wang , Yifan Zhang , Zhenghang Zhi , Jiawei Luo , Yulin Chen , Jianpeng Liu , Xufeng Kou , Zhongkai Liu

We investigate electronic band structure and transport properties in bilayer graphene superlattices of Thue-Morse sequence. It is interesting to find that the zero-$\bar{k}$ gap center is sensitive to interlayer coupling $t'$, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-30 Changan Li , Hemeng Cheng , Ruofan Chen , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Yun Song , Hai-Qing Lin

We study spin transport in normal/ferromagnetic/normal graphene junctions where a gate electrode is attached to the ferromagnetic graphene. We find that due to the exchange field of the ferromagnetic graphene, spin current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takehito Yokoyama

The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

Compared to monolayer graphene, electrons in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) have an additional layer degree of freedom, offering a platform for developing {\it layered spintronics} with the help of proximity-induced magnetism. Based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

We develop a theory of interaction effects in graphene superlattices, where tunable superlattice periodicity can be used as a knob to control the gap at the Dirac point. Applied to graphene on hexa-boron-nitride (G/h-BN), our theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Justin C. W. Song , Andrey V. Shytov , Leonid S. Levitov

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

The interplay of strain engineering and photon-assisted tunneling of electrons in graphene is considered for giving rise to atypical transport phenomena. The combination of uniaxial strain and a time-periodic potential barrier helps to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Parisa Majari , Diego Espitia , Francois Leyvraz , Thomas Stegmann

We theoretically calculate the charge-supercurrent through a ballistic graphene junction where superconductivity is induced via the proximity-effect. Both monolayer and bilayer graphene are considered, including the possibility of strain in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-20 Mohammad Alidoust , Jacob Linder

We use a tight binding approach and density functional theory calculations to study the band structure of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride bilayer system in the most stable configuration. We show that an electric field applied in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , Z. Klusek

We study the effect of a local potential shift induced by a side electrode on the edge modes at the boundary between gapped and ungapped bilayer graphene. A potential shift close to the gapped-ungapped boundary causes the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Hira Ali , Llorenç Serra

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with its flat bands provides a rich platform for exploring emergent electronic orders. Similarly, periodically buckled monolayer graphene has been proposed as a tunable alternative for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Jannes van Poppelen , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Superlattice engineering provides the means to reshape the fabric felt by quasiparticles moving in a material. Here we argue that bandstructure engineering with superlattices can be pushed to the extreme limit by stacking gapped van der…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Li-kun Shi , Jing Ma , Justin C. W. Song

As the Fermi level and band structure of two-dimensional materials are readily tunable, they constitute an ideal platform for exploring Lifshitz transition, a change in the topology of a material's Fermi surface. Using tetralayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Yanmeng Shi , Shi Che , Kuan Zhou , Supeng Ge , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Yafis Barlas , Roger Lake , Chun Ning Lau