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We study the electronic correlation effects in armchair graphene nanoribbons that have been recently proposed to be the building blocks of spin qubits. The armchair edges give rise to peculiar quantum interferences and lead to quenched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yen-Chen Lee , Hsiu-Hau Lin

Flat-band (FB) materials have emerged as promising platforms for exploring exotic quantum phases. While numerous candidates have recently been identified through spectroscopic techniques such as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Fabian Garmroudi , Xinlin Yan , Silke Paschen , Sean M. Thomas , Eric D. Bauer , Andrej Pustogow , Priscila F. S. Rosa

Due to their unique electron dispersion and lack of a Fermi surface, Coulomb interactions in undoped two-dimensional Dirac systems, such as single, bi- and tri-layer graphene, can be marginal or relevant. Relevant interactions can result in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Y. Lee , D. Tran , K. Myhro , J. Velasco , N. Gillgren , C. N. Lau , Y. Barlas , J. M. Poumirol , D. Smirnov , F. Guinea

Flat bands near M points in the Brillouin zone are key features of honeycomb symmetry in artificial graphene (AG) where electrons may condense into novel correlated phases. Here we report the observation of van Hove singularity doublet of…

We calculate the energy bands for graphene monolayers when electrons move through a periodic electrostatic potential in the presence of a uniform perpendicular magnetic field. We clearly demonstrate the quantum fractal nature of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

'Magic'-angle twisted bilayer graphene has received a lot of interest due to its flat bands with potentially non-trivial topology that lead to intricate correlated phases. A spectrum with flat bands, however, does not require a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Anastasiia Skurativska , Stepan S. Tsirkin , Fabian D Natterer , Titus Neupert , Mark H Fischer

Electrostatic gating offers elegant ways to simultaneously strain and dope atomically thin membranes. Here, we report on a detailed \textit{in situ} Raman scattering study on graphene, suspended over a Si/SiO$_2$ substrate. In such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Dominik Metten , Guillaume Froehlicher , Stéphane Berciaud

The existence of a flat band near the Fermi level can be a suitable platform for the emergence of interesting phenomena in condensed matter physics. Recently, NbOCl2 monolayer has been experimentally synthesized [Nature 613 (2023) 53],…

Solids at incommensurate contact display low-friction, 'superlubric', sliding. For graphene flakes on a graphite surface, superlubric sliding is only temporary due to rotation of the flakes from incommensurate to commensurate contact with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 A. S. de Wijn , A. Fasolino , A. E. Filippov , M. Urbakh

Rhombohedral graphene multilayers provide a clean and highly reproducible platform to explore the emergence of superconductivity and magnetism in a strongly interacting electron system. Here, we use electronic compressibility and local…

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

Intrinsic rhombohedral graphene hosts an unusual low-energy electronic wavefunction, predominantly localized at its outer crystal faces with negligible presence in the bulk. Increasing the number of graphene layers amplifies the density of…

Topological insulators and their intriguing edge states can be understood in a single-particle picture and can as such be exhaustively classified. Interactions significantly complicate this picture and can lead to entirely new insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Emil J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu

We probe electronic excitations between Landau levels in freestanding $N-$layer graphene over a broad energy range, with unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution, using micro-magneto Raman scattering spectroscopy. A characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 Stéphane Berciaud , Marek Potemski , Clément Faugeras

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

We study the effect of sublattice symmetry breaking on the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of two dimensional graphene as well as zigzag terminated one and zero dimensional graphene nanostructures. The systems are described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 D. Soriano , J. Fernández-Rossier

Rhombohedral (ABC) graphite hosts a surface-localized flat band that supports correlated and topological electronic phases, but its experimental study is limited by the scarcity of ABC stacking in natural graphite, which is dominated by…

We report the discovery of a series of non-equilibrium magic angles at which isolated topological flat quasienergy bands form in AA-stacked twisted multilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. These non-equilibrium magic angles can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Yantao Li , Wang-Kong Tse

Developing graphene-based nanoelectronics hinges on opening a band gap in the electronic structure of graphene, which is commonly achieved by breaking the inversion symmetry of the graphene lattice via an electric field (gate bias) or…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-11 Liangzhi Kou , Feiming Hu , Binghai Yan , Thomas Frauenheim , Changfeng Chen

In recent times, trilayer graphene has attracted wide attention owing to its stacking and electric field dependent electronic properties. However, a direct and well-resolved experimental visualization of its band structure has not yet been…