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The electromagnetic response of graphene in a magnetic field is studied, with particular emphasis on the quantum features of its ground state (vacuum). The graphene vacuum, unlike in conventional quantum Hall systems, is a dielectric medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shizuya

We review the basic aspects of electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite) exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. One of its most salient features is the relativistic quantum Hall effect the observation of which has been the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-24 M. O. Goerbig

We have measured the quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene samples that were exposed to a cold hydrogen plasma leading to a hydrogenation level of a few percent. Compared to pristine graphene, the Landau level distance significantly…

The magnetoelectronic properties of quasi-one-dimensional zigzag graphene nanoribbons are investigated by using the Peierls tight-binding model. Quasi-Landau levels (QLLs), dispersionless Landau subbands within a certain region of k-space,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-19 Hsien-Ching Chung , Po-Hua Yang , To-Sing Li , Ming-Fa Lin

In this paper we report on the observation of very high and narrow magnetoconductance peaks which we attribute to the transition to quantum Hall ferromagnet (QHFM) state occurring at the edges of the sample. We show that the expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 E. Bobko , D. Płoch , D. Śnieżek , M. Majewicz , M. Fołtyn , T. Wojciechowski , S. Chusnutdinow , T. Wojtowicz , J. Wróbel

A theory of electron states for graphene nanoribbons with a smoothly varying width is developed. It is demonstrated that the standard adiabatic approximation allowing to neglect the mixing of different standing waves is more restrictive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson

Conductance measurements of carbon nanotubes containing gated local depletion regions exhibit plateaus as a function of gate voltage, spaced by approximately e2/h, the quantum of conductance for a single (non-degenerate) mode. Plateau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Biercuk , N. Mason , J. Martin , A. Yacoby , C. M. Marcus

Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon material with a honeycomb lattice and Dirac-like low-energy excitations. When Zeeman and spin-orbit interactions are neglected its Landau levels are four-fold degenerate, explaining the $4 e^2/h$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-30 Kentaro Nomura , A. H. MacDonald

The eigen energy and the conductivity of a graphene sheet subject to a one-dimensional cosinusoidal potential and in the presence of a magnetic field are calculated. Such a graphene superlattice presents three distinct magnetic miniband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Liwei Jiang , Yisong Zheng

We study the quantum Hall effect in a monolayer graphene by using an approach based on thermodynamical properties. This can be done by considering a system of Dirac particles in an electromagnetic field and taking into account of the edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Ahmed Jellal

The quantum Hall effect is generally understood for free electron gases, in which topologically protected edge states between Landau levels (LLs) form conducting channels at the edge of the sample. In periodic crystals, the LLs are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-26 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We use numerical simulations to predict peculiar magnetotransport fingerprints in polycrystalline graphene, driven by the presence of grain boundaries of varying size and orientation. The formation of Landau levels is shown to be restricted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Aron W. Cummings , Alessandro Cresti , Stephan Roche

We review the theoretical basis and understanding of electronic interactions in graphene Landau levels, in the limit of strong correlations. This limit occurs when inter-Landau-level excitations may be omitted because they belong to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

We investigate the electronic spectra and quantum Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphenes with various rotation angles under magnetic fields, using a model rigorously including the interlayer interaction. We describe the spectral evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino

In the quantum Hall regime of graphene, antiferromagnetic and spin-polarized ferromagnetic states at the zeroth Landau level compete, leading to a canted antiferromagnetic state depending on the direction and magnitude of an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Y. Li , M. Amado , T. Hyart , G. P. Mazur , V. Risinggård , T. Wagner , L. McKenzie Sell , G. Kimbell , J. Wunderlich , J. Linder , J. W. A. Robinson

Microwave transmission line spectroscopy is used to observe the integer quantum Hall effect in two samples of monolayer graphene with different geometries that are resistively-coupled to a coplanar waveguide. We find plateaus in transmitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Scott Dietrich , Arash Akbari-Sharbaf , James H. Edgar , Alex Roubos , Matthew Freeman , Lloyd W. Engel

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We propose a method to modulate the bandgaps in quasi-metallic carbon nanotubes using a transverse electric field. Unlike previous investigations, we include curvature effects of the nanotubes by incorporating both $\pi$- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gunlycke , C. J. Lambert , S. W. D. Bailey , D. G. Pettifor , G. A. D. Briggs , J. H. Jefferson

We have investigated the magnetoresistance of lithographically prepared single-layer graphene nanoribbons in pulsed, perpendicular magnetic fields up to 60 T and performed corresponding transport simulations using a tight-binding model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 S. Minke , S. H. Jhang , J. Wurm , Y. Skourski , J. Wosnitza , C. Strunk , D. Weiss , K. Richter , J. Eroms

We theoretically demonstrate that an external magnetic field can be used to control quantum reflection of matter waves in graphene due to its extraordinary magneto-optical properties. We calculate the quantum reflection probabilities in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Marcius Silvestre , Tarik P. Cysne , Daniela Szilard , Felipe A. Pinheiro , Carlos Farina