van der Waals layered materials: opportunities and challenges

DL Duong, SJ Yun, YH Lee - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Since graphene became available by a scotch tape technique, a vast class of two-
dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) layered materials has been researched intensively …

Observation of Fermi arc surface states in a topological metal

SY Xu, C Liu, SK Kushwaha, R Sankar, JW Krizan… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The topology of the electronic structure of a crystal is manifested in its surface states.
Recently, a distinct topological state has been proposed in metals or semimetals whose spin …

Massive Dirac fermions and Hofstadter butterfly in a van der Waals heterostructure

B Hunt, JD Sanchez-Yamagishi, AF Young… - Science, 2013 - science.org
van der Waals heterostructures constitute a new class of artificial materials formed by
stacking atomically thin planar crystals. We demonstrated band structure engineering in a …

Strain solitons and topological defects in bilayer graphene

JS Alden, AW Tsen, PY Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Bilayer graphene has been a subject of intense study in recent years. The interlayer registry
between the layers can have dramatic effects on the electronic properties: for example, in …

Artificial honeycomb lattices for electrons, atoms and photons

M Polini, F Guinea, M Lewenstein… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Artificial honeycomb lattices offer a tunable platform for studying massless Dirac
quasiparticles and their topological and correlated phases. Here we review recent progress …

Quantum capacitance measurements of electron-hole asymmetry and next-nearest-neighbor hopping in graphene

A Kretinin, GL Yu, R Jalil, Y Cao, F Withers… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The next-nearest-neighbor hopping term t′ determines a magnitude, and, hence, the
importance of several phenomena in graphene that include self-doping due to broken bonds …

Quantum oscillations in the type-II Dirac semi-metal candidate PtSe2

H Yang, M Schmidt, V Süss, M Chan… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Three-dimensional topological semi-metals carry quasiparticle states that mimic massless
relativistic Dirac fermions, elusive particles that have never been observed in nature. As they …

Cantor spectrum of graphene in magnetic fields

S Becker, R Han, S Jitomirskaya - Inventiones mathematicae, 2019 - Springer
We consider a quantum graph as a model of graphene in magnetic fields and give a
complete analysis of the spectrum, for all constant fluxes. In particular, we show that if the …

Theory of Emergent Josephson Lattice in Neutral Twisted Bilayer Graphene (Moi\'re is Different)

G Baskaran - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00627, 2018 - arxiv.org
More is Different'(Anderson, 1972) in graphene. A bilayer and a twist spring surprises.
Recently discovered superconductivity (T $ _c\approx $1.7 K) at an ultra low doping density …

Observation of a bulk 3D Dirac multiplet, Lifshitz transition, and nestled spin states in Na3Bi

SY Xu, C Liu, SK Kushwaha, TR Chang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2013 - arxiv.org
Symmetry or topology protected Dirac fermion states in two and three dimensions constitute
novel quantum systems that exhibit exotic physical phenomena. However, none of the …