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We investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of hydrogenated carbon nanotubes using ab initio spin-polarized calculations within both the local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). We find…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-05 Xiaoping Yang , Gang Wu

The effect of strong long-range disorder on the quantization of the Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ in graphene is studied numerically. It is shown that increasing Landau-level mixing progressively destroys all plateaus in $\sigma_{xy}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-30 Kentaro Nomura , Shinsei Ryu , Mikito Koshino , Christopher Mudry , Akira Furusaki

A close study is made of the static structure factor for graphene in a magnetic field at integer filling factors nu, with focus on revealing possible signatures of "relativistic" quantum field theory in the low-energy physics of graphene.…

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

We study the properties of graphene wormholes in which a short nanotube acts as a bridge between two graphene sheets, where the honeycomb carbon lattice is curved from the presence of 12 heptagonal defects. By taking the nanotube bridge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 J. Gonzalez , J. Herrero

In this study, we determined the chiral direction of the quantum-Hall (QH) edge states in graphene by adopting simple two-terminal conductance measurements while grounding different edge positions of the sample. The edge state with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Dong-Keun Ki , Sanghyun Jo , Hu-Jong Lee

We study 1-loop effects for massless Dirac fields in two spatial dimensions, coupled to homogeneous electromagnetic backgrounds, both at zero and at finite temperature and density. In the case of a purely magnetic field, we analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 C. G. Beneventano , Paola Giacconi , E. M. Santangelo , Roberto Soldati

We investigate curvature effects on geometric parameters, energetics and electronic structure of zigzag nanotubes with fully optimized geometries from first-principle calculations. The calculated curvature energies, which are inversely…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Gulseren , T. Yildirim , S. Ciraci

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We theoretically study the interplay between electrical and mechanical properties of suspended, doubly clamped carbon nanotubes in which charging effects dominate. In this geometry, the capacitance between the nanotube and the gate(s)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Sapmaz , Ya. M. Blanter , L. Gurevich , H. S. J. van der Zant

We have investigated the fractional quantum Hall states for the Dirac electrons in a graphene layer in different Landau levels. The relativistic nature of the energy dispersion relation of the electrons in the graphene significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Due to its fourfold spin-valley degeneracy, graphene in a strong magnetic field may be viewed as a four-component quantum Hall system. We investigate the consequences of this particular structure on a possible, yet unobserved, fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-08 Z. Papić , M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

Band structure is theoretically studied in partially flattened carbon nanotubes within an effective-mass scheme. Effects of inter-wall interactions are shown to be important in non-chiral nanotubes such as zigzag and armchair and can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Takeshi Nakanishi , Tsuneya Ando

We report on the fate of the quantum Hall effect in graphene under strong laser illumination. By using Floquet theory combined with both a low energy description and full tight-binding models, we clarify the selection rules, the quasienergy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Huamán , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro , Gonzalo Usaj

We use a lowest Landau level model to study the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. This effective model is rooted in the occurrence of Chern bands which arise due to the coupling between the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Nick Bultinck , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Michael P. Zaletel

Quantum electron transport in side-gated graphene Hall bars is investigated in the presence of quantizing external magnetic fields. The asymmetric potential of four side-gates distorts the otherwise flat bands of the relativistic Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 M. D. Petrović , F. M. Peeters

Quantum anomalous Hall state is expected to emerge in Dirac electron systems such as graphene under both sufficiently strong exchange and spin-orbit interactions. In pristine graphene, neither interaction exists; however, both interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Chi Tang , Bin Cheng , Mohammed Aldosary , Zhiyong Wang , Zilong Jiang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Marc Bockrath , Jing Shi

Electron properties of Carbon nanotubes can change qualitatively in a transverse electric field. In metallic tubes the sign of Fermi velocity can be reversed in a sufficiently strong field, while in semiconducting tubes the effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Novikov , L. S. Levitov

We analyze the dissipative conductance of the zero-plateau quantum Hall state appearing in undoped graphene in strong magnetic fields. Charge transport in this state is assumed to be carried by a magnetic domain wall, which forms by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig , G. Venketeswara Pai

In the presence of weak magnetic field ($B$), novel phenomena, similar to Hall effect in condensed matter physics, emerge both in charge and heat transport in a thermal QCD medium. Here, we have employed the kinetic theory approach within a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Pushpa , Binoy Krishna Patra