• 文献标题:   Probing quantum coherent states in bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GILBERT MJ, SHUMWAY J
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, exciton condensate, path integral, quantum monte carlo, superfluidity
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRONICS
  • ISSN:   1569-8025 EI 1572-8137
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Illinois
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1007/s10825-009-0286-y
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

An active area of post-CMOS device research is to study the possibility of realizing and exploiting exotic quantum states in nanostructures. In this paper we consider one such system, two layers of graphene separated by an oxide insulator. This system has been predicted to have an excitonic condensate that survives above room temperature. We describe a computational technique-path integral quantum Monte Carlo (PIMC)-that directly simulates many-body quantum phenomena, including excitonic condensation. Starting from a simplified quasiparticle model, the many-body PIMC simulations show excitonic pairing and a confirm a superfluid phase that persists above room temperature. We then present an atomistic PIMC model that captures more details of graphene than our quasiparticle model, and discuss how to extract parameters for a non-equilibrium Green's function calculation.