Fig. 5

Restoration of the metallic state. Dependence of the partial dislocation induced insulating state on a layer symmetry breaking potential V and b the Fermi energy E _F . In both panels the conductivities are obtained by averaging over a large ensemble of partial configurations that, for zero field and at charge neutrality, result in an insulating state (defined by \({\sigma _{{\rm{min}}}}{\rm{/}}\sigma _{{\rm{min}}}^{{\rm{AB}}} < \, 0.001\), where \(\sigma _{{\rm{min}}}^{{\rm{AB}}}\) represents the minimal metallic conductivity of bilayer graphene). In b the individual points represent members of the ensemble of conductivities, while the red line denotes the ensemble average. The orange line in b is the conductivity of a perfect dislocation free bilayer, seen to be very different from the dislocation threaded ensemble average. The grey shaded region indicates the energy window within which transport is blocked for all partial configurations