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Charge neutral bilayer graphene has a gapped ground state as transport experiments demonstrate. One of the plausible such ground states is layered antiferromagnetic spin density wave (LAF) state, where the spins in top and bottom layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Jie Yuan , Dong-Hui Xu , Hao Wang , Yi Zhou , Jin-Hua Gao , Fu-Chun Zhang

We show that gated bilayer graphene zigzag ribbons possess a fast and a slow edge, characterized by edge state velocities that differ due to non-negligible next-nearest-neighbor hopping elements. By applying bosonization and renormalization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-08 Alberto Cortijo , Laszlo Oroszlany , Henning Schomerus

We study the influence of different kinds of gaps in a quasiparticle spectrum on longitudinal and transverse optical conductivities of bilayer graphene. An exact analytical expression for magneto-optical conductivity is derived using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-08 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , A. B. Kuzmenko , S. G. Sharapov

The electron states in the field of a charged impurity in graphene in a magnetic field are studied numerically. It is shown that a charged impurity removes the degeneracy of Landau levels converting them into bandlike structures. As the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 O. O. Sobol , P. K. Pyatkovskiy , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

The relativistic-like behavior of electrons in graphene significantly influences the interaction properties of these electrons in a quantizing magnetic field, resulting in more stable fractional quantum Hall effect states as compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tapash Chakraborty , Vadim Apalkov

We demonstrate that the low-frequency resistance fluctuations, or noise, in bilayer graphene is strongly connected to its band structure, and displays a minimum when the gap between the conduction and valence band is zero. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-09 Atindra Nath Pal , Arindam Ghosh

In the low-energy two-band as well as four-band continuum models, we study the supercritical instability in gapped bilayer graphene in the field of a charged impurity. It is found that the screening effects are crucially important in…

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Recent measurements have shown that a continuously tunable bandgap of up to 250 meV can be generated in biased bilayer graphene [Y. Zhang et al., Nature 459, 820 (2009)], opening up pathway for possible graphene-based nanoelectronic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

We propose a spectroscopic method of identifying broken symmetry states of bilayer graphene. We demonstrate theoretically that, in contrast to gapped states, a strained bilayer crystal or nematic phase of the electronic liquid are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 D. S. L. Abergel , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Density functional theory calculations are used to investigate the electronic structures of localized states at reconstructed armchair graphene edges. We consider graphene nanoribbons with two different edge types and obtain the energy band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Changwon Park , Jisoon Ihm , Gunn Kim

We analyze the spectroscopic features of bilayer graphene determined by the formation of pairs of low-energy and split bands in this material. We show that the inter-Landau-level absorption spectrum in bilayer graphene at high magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. L. Abergel , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Owing to the spin, valley, and orbital symmetries, the lowest Landau level (LL) in bilayer graphene exhibits multicomponent quantum Hall ferromagnetism. Using transport spectroscopy, we investigate the energy gaps of integer and fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Yanmeng Shi , Yongjin Lee , Shi Che , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Petr Stepanov , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau , Fan Zhang

The electronic properties of doped bilayer graphene in presence of bottom and top gates have been studied and characterized by means of Density Functional Theory calculations. Varying independently the bottom and top gates it is possible to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Gava , Michele Lazzeri , A. Marco Saitta , Francesco Mauri

Using the semi-classical Boltzmann theory, we calculate the conductivity as function of the carrier density. As usually, we include the scattering from charged impurities, but conclude that the estimated impurity density is too low in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea

We investigate gated trilayer graphene partially devoid of outer layers and forming a system of two trilayers connected by a single layer of graphene. A difference in the stacking order of trilayers leads to the appearance of gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

The effect of impurities which induce local interlayer tunneling in bilayer exciton condensates is discussed. We show that a localized single fermion bound state emerges inside the gap for any strength of impurity scattering and calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Dubi , A. V. Balatsky

We used a quantum Monte Carlo method to study the magnetic impurity adatoms on graphene. We found that by tuning the chemical potential we could switch the values of the impurity's local magnet moment between relatively large and small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-05 F. M. Hu , Tianxing Ma , Hai-Qing Lin , J. E. Gubernatis

We present an analytical investigation of the quasi-Coulomb impurity states in a narrow gapped armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) in the presence of a uniform external electric field directed parallel to the ribbon axis. The effect of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 Boris S. Monzon , Peter Schmelcher

We present a tight-binding investigation of strained bilayer graphene within linear elasticity theory, focusing on the different environments experienced by the A and B carbon atoms of the different sublattices. We find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-17 B. Verberck , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters , B. Trauzettel

Unitary limit for model point scatterers in graphene is known to reveal low-energy resonances. The same limit could be achieved from hybridization of band electrons with the localized impurity level positioned in the vicinity of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 V. V. Mkhitaryan , E. G. Mishchenko