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most citedLayer-dependent evolution of electronic structures and correlations in rhombohedral multilayer graphene

28 citations · 124 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Local-Antisymmetric Flat Band and Coexisting Correlated stripe charge orders in WSe2-Modulated Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Chi Zhang, Shihao Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang +2

Insulating, atomically flat transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) like WSe2 are ideal substrates for probing intrinsic graphene properties. Conventionally, their influence on gra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Realization of 2/3-layer transition metal dichalcogenides

Ya-Xin Zhao, Zi-Yi Han, Ya-Ning Ren +4

Layered van der Waals transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), generally composed of three atomic X-M-X planes in each layer (M = transition metal, X = chalcogen), provide versati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Visualizing orbital angular momentum induced single wavefront dislocation in graphene

Yi-Wen Liu, Yu-Chen Zhuang, Ya-Ning Ren +5

Phase singularities are phase-indeterminate points where wave amplitudes are zero, which manifest as phase vertices or wavefront dislocations. In the realm of optical and electron…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Relativistic artificial molecules with tunable coupling and orbitals

Xiao-Feng Zhou, Yu-Chen Zhuang, Mo-Han Zhang +3

In a molecule formed by two atoms, energy difference between bonding and antibonding orbitals should depend on distance of the two atoms. However, exploring molecular orbitals of t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 28 cited

Layer-dependent evolution of electronic structures and correlations in rhombohedral multilayer graphene

Yang Zhang, Yue-Ying Zhou, Shihao Zhang +18

The recent discovery of superconductivity and magnetism in trilayer rhombohedral graphene (RG) establishes an ideal, untwisted platform to study strong correlation electronic pheno…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

One-dimensional moire chains with partially-filled flat bands in two-dimensional twisted bilayer WSe2

Ya-Ning Ren, Hui-Ying Ren, Kenji Watanabe +2

Two-dimensional (2D) moire systems based on twisted bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides provide a promising platform to investigate emergent phenomena driven by s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Tunable interfacial chemisorption with atomic-level precision in a graphene WSe2 heterostructure

Mo-Han Zhang, Fei Gao, Aleksander Bach Lorentzen +7

It has long been an ultimate goal to introduce chemical doping at the atomic level to precisely tune properties of materials. Two-dimensional materials have natural advantage becau…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Tunable Atomically Wide Electrostatic Barriers Embedded in a Graphene WSe2 Heterostructure

Hui-Ying Ren, Yue Mao, Ya-Ning Ren +2

Inducing and controlling electrostatic barriers in two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials has shown extraordinary promise to enable control of charge carriers, and is key for the r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Tailoring interfacial nanostructures at graphene/transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

Ya-Ning Ren, Mo-Han Zhang, Qi Zheng +1

Integration of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdWs) materials with non-2D materials to realize mixed-dimensional heterostructures has potential for creating functional devices…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Experimental evidence for electron-electron interaction and spin-charge separation in graphene quantum dots

Hui-Ying Ren, Ya-Ning Ren, Qi Zheng +2

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) can exhibit a range of spectacular phenomena such as the Klein-tunneling-induced quasibound states1-6 and Berry-phase-tuned energy spectra7-15. Accordi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 17 cited

Coexistence of Reconstructed and Unreconstructed Structures in Structural Transition Regime of Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Xiao-Feng Zhou, Yi-Wen Liu, Chen-Yue Hao +7

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a twist-angle-dependent competition between interlayer stacking energy and intralayer elastic energy results in flat rigid layers at large twist…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Stabilizing sample-wide Kekulé orders in graphene/transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

Mo-Han Zhang, Ya-Ning Ren, Qi Zheng +2

Kekulé phases are Peierls-like lattice distortions in graphene that are predicted to host novel electronic states beyond graphene (1-8). Although the Kekulé phases are realized in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 25 cited

Molecular Collapse States in Elliptical Graphene/WSe2 Heterostructure Quantum Dots

Qi Zheng, Yu-Chen Zhuang, Ya-Ning Ren +3

In relativistic physics, both atomic collapse in heavy nucleus and Hawking radiation in black hole are predicted to occur through Klein tunneling process that couples particles and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 25 cited

Magnetic field-tunable valley-contrasting pseudomagnetic confinement in graphene

Ya-Ning Ren, Yu-Chen Zhuang, Qing-Feng Sun +1

Introducing quantum confinement has uncovered a rich set of interesting quantum phenomena and allows one to directly probe the physics of confined (quasi-)particles. In most experi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Imaging field-tuned quantum Hall broken-symmetry orders and quantum Hall conducting channel in charge-neutral graphene WSe2 heterostructure

Qi Zheng, Mo-Han Zhang, Ya-Ning Ren +1

The zeroth Landau level (0LL) in graphene has emerged as a flat-band platform in which distinct many-body phases can be explored with unprecedented control by simply tuning the str…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 11 cited

Realizing One-dimensional Metallic States in Graphene via Periodically Coupled Zeroth Pseudo-Landau Levels

Yi-Wen Liu, Zhen Zhan, Zewen Wu +3

Strain-induced pseudo-magnetic fields can mimic real magnetic fields to generate a zero-magnetic-field analogue of the Landau levels (LLs), i.e., the pseudo-LLs, in graphene. The d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 1 cited

Continuously Tunable Berry Phase and Valley-Polarized Energy Spectra in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots

Ya-Ning Ren, Qiang Cheng, Qing-Feng Sun +1

Berry phase plays an important role in determining many physical properties of quantum systems. However, a Berry phase altering energy spectrum of a quantum system is comparatively…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 16 cited

Spatial and Magnetic Confinement of Massless Dirac Fermions

Ya-Ning Ren, Qiang Cheng, Chao Yan +4

The massless Dirac fermions and the ease to introduce spatial and magnetic confinement in graphene provide us unprecedented opportunity to explore confined relativistic matter in t…