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Electronic structure calculations of twisted multi-layer graphene superlattices

Georgios A. Tritsaris1*, Stephen Carr2, Ziyan Zhu2, Yiqi Xie1, Steven B. Torrisi2, Jing Tang3, Marios Mattheakis1, Daniel Larson2, Efthimios Kaxiras2*

1 John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

2 Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

3 Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

* Corresponding authors emails: gtritsaris@seas.harvard.edu, kaxiras@physics.harvard.edu
DOI10.24435/materialscloud:2020.0050/v1 [version v1]

Publication date: May 04, 2020

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Georgios A. Tritsaris, Stephen Carr, Ziyan Zhu, Yiqi Xie, Steven B. Torrisi, Jing Tang, Marios Mattheakis, Daniel Larson, Efthimios Kaxiras, Electronic structure calculations of twisted multi-layer graphene superlattices, Materials Cloud Archive 2020.0050/v1 (2020), doi: 10.24435/materialscloud:2020.0050/v1.

Description

Quantum confinement endows two-dimensional (2D) layered materials with exceptional physics and novel properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Although certain two- and few-layer configurations of graphene have been realized and studied, a systematic investigation of the properties of arbitrarily layered graphene assemblies is still lacking. We introduce theoretical concepts and methods for the processing of materials information, and as a case study, apply them to investigate the electronic structure of multi-layer graphene-based assemblies in a high-throughput fashion. We provide a critical discussion of patterns and trends in tight binding band structures and we identify specific layered assemblies using low-dispersion electronic bands as indicators of potentially interesting physics like strongly correlated behavior. A combination of data-driven models for visualization and prediction is used to intelligently explore the materials space. This work more generally aims to increase confidence in the combined use of physics-based and data-driven modeling for the systematic refinement of knowledge about 2D layered materials, with implications for the development of novel quantum devices.

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Journal reference
G. A. Tritsaris, S. Carr, Z. Zhu, Y. Xie, S. B. Torrisi, J. Tang, M. Mattheakis, D. Larson, E. Kaxiras, 2D Mater. 7, 035028 (2020) doi:10.1088/2053-1583/ab8f62
Preprint
G. A. Tritsaris, S. Carr, Z. Zhu, Y. Xie, S. B. Torrisi, J. Tang, M. Mattheakis, D. Larson, E. Kaxiras, arXiv:2001.11633 (2020)
Journal reference (Paper in which a materials notation for 2D layered assemblies is described.)
G. A. Tritsaris, Y. Xie, A. M. Rush, S. Carr, M. Mattheakis, and E. Kaxiras, J. Chem. Inf. Model. (2020) doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00630
Website (Interactive visualization of tight binding band structures of twisted multi-layer graphene superlattices.)
G. A. Tritsaris, Twistronics on demand. http://twistronics.tritsaris.eu

Keywords

Graphene 2D layered materials High-throughput calculations Tight binding band structures Machine learning Twistronics Quantum devices

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2020.0050/v1 (version v1) [This version] May 04, 2020 DOI10.24435/materialscloud:2020.0050/v1