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We consider the non-local quantum transport properties of a graphene superconducting spin-valve. It is shown that one may create a spin-switch effect between perfect elastic co-tunneling (CT) and perfect crossed Andreev-reflection (CAR) for…
Graphynes are novel two-dimensional carbon-based materials that -due to their nanoweb-like structure- have been proposed as molecular filters, especially for water purification technologies. In this work we carry out first principles…
Graphene plasmons provide a suitable alternative to noble-metal plasmons because they exhibit much larger confinement and relatively long propagation distances, with the advantage of being highly tunable via electrostatic gating. We report…
Graphene is a light material for long-distance spin transport due to its low spin-orbit coupling, which at the same time is the main drawback to exhibit a sizeable spin Hall effect. Decoration by light atoms has been predicted to enhance…
We propose potential geometry for fabrication of the graphite sheets with atomically smooth edges. For such sheets with Bernal stacking, the electron-electron interaction and topology should cause sufficiently high density of states…
The use of graphene in spintronic devices is contingent on its ability to convert a spin current into a charge current. We have systematically investigated the spin pumping induced spin-to-charge current conversion at the Graphene/FM…
Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical…
Graphene has a multitude of striking properties that make it an exceedingly attractive material for various applications, many of which will emerge over the next decade. However, one of the most promising applications lie in exploiting its…
Recent theoretical and experimental works on carbon nanotubes and graphene samples have revealed that spin-orbit interactions, though customarily ignored in carbon-based materials, are more important and complex than it was thought. We…
Simple hexagonal graphite, also known as AA graphite, is a metastable configuration of graphite. Using tight-binding approximation it is easy to demonstrate that AA graphite is a metal with well-defined Fermi surface. The Fermi surface…
Single layers of carbon dubbed "graphenes", from which graphite is built, have attracted broad interest in the scientific community because of recent exciting experimental results. Graphene is interesting from a fundamental research…
Twisted graphene multilayers provide tunable platforms to engineer flat bands and exploit the associated strongly correlated physics. The two-dimensional nature of these systems makes them suitable for encapsulation by materials that break…
The gyromagnetic factor is an important physical quantity relating the magnetic-dipole moment of a particle to its spin. The electron spin g-factor in vacuo is one of the best model-based theoretical predictions ever made, showing agreement…
Molecular-crystalline duality of graphene ensures a tight alliance of its physical and chemical natures, each of which is unique in its own way. The paper examines the physical-chemical harmony and/or confrontation in terms of the molecular…
We predict that neutral graphene bilayers are pseudospin magnets in which the charge density-contribution from each valley and spin spontaneously shifts to one of the two layers. The band structure of this system is characterized by a…
The fundamental spin-orbit coupling and spin mixing in graphene and rippled honeycomb lattice materials silicene, germanene, stanene, blue phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene, and bismuthene is investigated from first principles. The…
The contact strength, adhesion and friction, between graphene and an incommensurate crystalline substrate such as {\it h}-BN depends on their relative alignment angle $\theta$. The well established Novaco-McTague (NM) theory predicts for a…
Many proposed and realized spintronic devices involve spin injection and accumulation at an interface between a ferromagnet and a non-magnetic material. We examine the electric field, voltage profile, charge distribution, spin fluxes, and…
The electronic structure and magnetic properties of the graphene/Fe/Ni(111) system were investigated via combination of the density functional theory calculations and electron-spectroscopy methods. This system was prepared via intercalation…
We report {\it ab initio} calculations of the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of a graphene monolayer substitutionally doped with Co (Co$_{sub}$) atoms. We focus in Co because among traditional ferromagnetic elements (Fe, Co…