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We numerically calculate the conductivity $\sigma$ of an undoped graphene sheet (size $L$) in the limit of vanishingly small lattice constant. We demonstrate one-parameter scaling for random impurity scattering and determine the scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 J. H. Bardarson , J. Tworzydło , P. W. Brouwer , C. W. J. Beenakker

By solving two-component spinor equation for massless Dirac Fermions, we show that graphene under a periodic external magnetic field exhibits a unique energy spectrum: At low energies, Dirac Fermions are localized inside the magnetic region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Shuanglong Liu , Argo Nurbawono , Na Guo , Chun Zhang

We study the modular Hamiltonians of an interval for the massless Dirac fermion on the half-line. The most general boundary conditions ensuring the global energy conservation lead to consider two phases, where either the vector or the axial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Mihail Mintchev , Erik Tonni

We consider the relationship between the tight-binding Hamiltonian of the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms with nearest neighbor hopping only and the 2+1 dimensional Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics which follows in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov , J. P. Carbotte

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac-like electron gases have attracted tremendous research interest ever since the discovery of free-standing graphene. The linear energy dispersion and non-trivial Berry phase play the pivotal role in the remarkable…

We analyze bound modes of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions confined within a hyperbolic secant potential, which provides a good fit for potential profiles of existing top-gated graphene structures. We show that bound states of both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

We theoretically propose that the Dirac fermion in two-dimensions shows the giant nonlinear responses to electromagnetic fields in terahertz region. A scaling form is obtained for the current and magnetization as functions of the normalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

We investigate the scaling properties of the recently acquired fermionic non--linear $\sigma$--model which controls gapless diffusive modes in a two--dimensional disordered system of Dirac electrons beyond charge neutrality. The transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We show that in bilayer graphene it is possible to achieve a very restrictive confinement of the massless Dirac fermions zero-modes by using inhomogeneous magnetic fields. Specifically, we show that, using a suitable nonuniform magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Lucas Sourrouille

Analysis of the electronic structure of an ordinary two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under an appropriate external periodic potential of hexagonal symmetry reveals that massless Dirac fermions are generated near the corners of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-13 Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

We discuss, for a two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian with random scalar potential, the presence of a $Z_2$ topological term in the non-linear sigma model encoding the physics of Anderson localization in the symplectic symmetry class. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-11 Shinsei Ryu , Christopher Mudry , Hideaki Obuse , Akira Furusaki

We investigate how a localized curvature affects the dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in a curved surface. We consider a smooth bump with axial symmetry, adopting two specific geometric models, namely a Gaussian and a volcano-like bumps.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. R. N. Lima , D. F. S. Veras , J. E. G. Silva

We study the relations between massless Dirac fermions in an electromagnetic field and atoms in quantum optics. After getting the solutions of the energy spectrum, we show that it is possible to reproduce the 2D Dirac Hamiltonian, with all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Ahmed Jellal , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Mohammed Daoud

It is well-known that the tight-binding Hamiltonian of graphene describes the low-energy excitations that appear to be massless chiral Dirac fermions. Thus, in the continuum limit one can analyze the crystal properties using the formalism…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-03 P. Kosinski , P. Maslanka , J. Slawinska , I. Zasada

The excitations in graphene and some other materials are described by two-dimensional massless Dirac equation with applied external potential of some kind. Solutions of this zero energy equation are built analytically for a wide class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 M. V. Ioffe , D. N. Nishnianidze

We adapt a finite difference method of solution of the two-dimensional massless Dirac equation, developed in the context of lattice gauge theory, to the calculation of electrical conduction in a graphene sheet or on the surface of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-02 J. Tworzydlo , C. W. Groth , C. W. J. Beenakker

The spurious states found in numerical implementations of envelope function models for semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures have been shown to be readily removed by employing a first-order difference scheme. This approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 William R. Frensley

We investigate a generalized two-dimensional Weyl Hamiltonian, which may describe the low-energy properties of mechanically deformed graphene and of the organic compound alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3 under pressure. The associated dispersion has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-16 M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , G. Montambaux , F. Piechon

Two dimensional effective Hamiltonian for a massless Dirac electron interacting with a hyperbolic magnetic field is discussed within PT symmetry. Factorization method and polynomial procedures are used to solve Dirac equation for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Özlem Yeşiltaş