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We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Priyanka Sinha , Ayan Mondal , Simão Meneses João , Bheema Lingam Chittari

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) stands as one of the most versatile materials in condensed-matter physics due to its hosting of a wide variety of exotic phases while also offering convenient tunability. However, the fabrication…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 J. Diez-Merida , I. Das , G. Di Battista , A. Diez-Carlon , M. Lee , L. Zeng , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , E. Olsson , D. K. Efetov

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known for exhibiting highly correlated phases at magic angles due to the emergence of flat bands that enhance electron-electron interactions. In the TBG chiral model, electronic wave function properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

We report on the energy spectrum of electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) obtained by the band-unfolding method in the tight-binding model. We find the band-gap opening at particular points in the reciprocal space, that elucidates…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Hirofumi Nishi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita , Atsushi Oshiyama

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene, often feature flat electronic bands that enable the observation of electron correlation effects. In this work, we study the electronic structure of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Valerio Vitale , Kemal Atalar , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

Overlaying two graphene layers with a small twist angle can create a moire superlattice to realize exotic phenomena that are entirely absent in graphene monolayer. A representative example is the predicted formation of localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Qi Zheng , Chen-Yue Hao , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Ya-Xin Zhao , Jia-Qi He , Lin He

The electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be dramatically different from those of a single graphene layer, in particular when the two layers are rotated relative to each other by a small angle. TBG has recently…

The in-plane DC conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is calculated using an expansion of the real-space Kubo-Bastin conductivity in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. We investigate within a tight-binding (TB) approach the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 M. Anđelković , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

A theoretical model is presented to compute the electronic band structures and optical absorption spectra for twisted incommensurate few-layers graphene (tLFG) systems of arbitrary architecture. This is accomplished using an integrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 D. Ghader , A. Khater , D. Szczȩśniak

Active control of heat flow is of both fundamental and applied interest in thermal management and energy conversion. Here, we present a fluctuational electrodynamic study of thermal radiation between twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Fuwei Yang , Bai Song

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

Understanding and tuning correlated states is of great interest and significance to modern condensed matter physics. The recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity and Mott-like insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer…

The electronic properties of junctions defined electrostatically on twisted bilayer graphene can be addressed theoretically using lattice models. Recent works have introduced minimal local orbital models to describe twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

The possibility of triggering correlated phenomena by placing a singularity of the density of states near the Fermi energy remains an intriguing avenue towards engineering the properties of quantum materials. Twisted bilayer graphene is a…

We provide a formal derivation of a reduced model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) from Density Functional Theory. Our derivation is based on a variational approximation of the TBG Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian and asymptotic limit techniques. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Eric Cancès , Louis Garrigue , David Gontier