Topological phases in two-dimensional materials: a review

Y Ren, Z Qiao, Q Niu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted
intensive attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential …

Electronic properties of graphene-based bilayer systems

AV Rozhkov, AO Sboychakov, AL Rakhmanov, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
This article reviews the theoretical and experimental work related to the electronic properties
of bilayer graphene systems. Three types of bilayer stackings are discussed: the AA, AB, and …

Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures

Z Zheng, Q Ma, Z Bi, S de La Barrera, MH Liu, N Mao… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The constituent particles of matter can arrange themselves in various ways, giving rise to
emergent phenomena that can be surprisingly rich and often cannot be understood by …

Higher-order topological insulator in twisted bilayer graphene

MJ Park, Y Kim, GY Cho, SB Lee - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Higher-order topological insulators are newly proposed topological phases of matter, whose
bulk topology manifests as localized modes at two-or higher-dimensional lower boundaries …

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene

E McCann, M Koshino - Reports on Progress in physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the
tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian …

Gate-tunable topological valley transport in bilayer graphene

M Sui, G Chen, L Ma, WY Shan, D Tian, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Valley pseudospin, the quantum degree of freedom characterizing the degenerate valleys in
energy bands, is a distinct feature of two-dimensional Dirac materials,,,,. Similar to spin, the …

Generation and detection of pure valley current by electrically induced Berry curvature in bilayer graphene

Y Shimazaki, M Yamamoto, IV Borzenets, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The field of 'Valleytronics' has recently been attracting growing interest as a promising
concept for the next generation electronics, because non-dissipative pure valley currents …

Valley Chern numbers and boundary modes in gapped bilayer graphene

F Zhang, AH MacDonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Electronic states at domain walls in bilayer graphene are studied by analyzing their four-and
two-band continuum models, by performing numerical calculations on the lattice, and by …

Spontaneous quantum Hall states in chirally stacked few-layer graphene systems

F Zhang, J Jung, GA Fiete, Q Niu, AH MacDonald - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
Chirally stacked N-layer graphene systems with N≥ 2 exhibit a variety of distinct broken
symmetry states in which charge density contributions from different spins and valleys are …

Gate-controlled topological conducting channels in bilayer graphene

J Li, K Wang, KJ McFaul, Z Zern, Y Ren… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The existence of inequivalent valleys K and K′ in the momentum space of 2D hexagonal
lattices provides a new electronic degree of freedom, the manipulation of which can …