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Electrons in graphene are described by relativistic Dirac-Weyl spinors with a two-component pseudospin1-12. The unique pseudospin structure of Dirac electrons leads to emerging phenomena such as the massless Dirac cone2, anomalous quantum…

A variational technique is used to study sublattice symmetry breaking by strong on-site and nearest neighbor interactions in graphene. When interactions are strong enough to break sublattice symmetry, and with relative strengths…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Y. Araki , G. W. Semenoff

Despite being only one-atom thick, defect-free graphene is considered to be completely impermeable to all gases and liquids. This conclusion is based on theory and supported by experiments that could not detect gas permeation through…

We analyze the effect of twists on the electronic structure of configurations of infinite stacks of graphene layers. We focus on three different cases: an infinite stack where each layer is rotated with respect to the previous one by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-26 Tommaso Cea , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Defect-free monolayers of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride were previously shown to be surprisingly permeable to thermal protons, despite being completely impenetrable to all gases. It remains untested whether small ions can permeate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 L. Mogg , S. Zhang , G. -P. Hao , K. Gopinadhan , D. Barry , B. L. Liu , H. M. Cheng , A. K. Geim , M. Lozada-Hidalgo

We propose a unique way to control both bandgap and the magnetic properties of nanoscale graphene, which might prove highly beneficial for application in nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. We have shown that chemical doping by nitrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

Graphene is an interesting debated topic between scientists because of its unique properties such as tunable conductivity. Graphene conductivity can be varied by either electrostatic or magnetostatic gating or via chemical doping, which…

Enhancing the spin-orbit interaction in graphene, via proximity effects with topological insulators, could create a novel 2D system that combines nontrivial spin textures with high electron mobility. In order to engineer practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Kenan Song , David Soriano , Aron W. Cummings , Roberto Robles , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche

We report an advanced organic spin-interface architecture with magnetic remanence at room temperature, constituted by metal phthalocyanine molecules magnetically coupled with Co layer(s), mediated by graphene. Fe- and Cu-phthalocyanines…

The results of density functional theory (DFT) calculations and measurements of X-ray photoelectron (XPS) and X-ray emission (XES) spectra of Co-nanoparticles dispersed on graphene/Cu composites are presented. It is found that for 0.02nm…

Graphene, the one-atom-thick sp2 hybridized carbon crystal, displays unique electronic, structural and mechanical properties, which promise a large number of interesting applications in diverse high tech fields. Many of these applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Tommaso Cavallucci , Khatuna Kakhiani , Riccardo Farchioni , Valentina Tozzini

Atomically precise graphene nanoflakes, called nanographenes, have emerged as a promising platform to realize carbon magnetism. Their ground state spin configuration can be anticipated by Ovchinnikov-Lieb rules based on the mismatch of…

$\require{mediawiki-texvc}$ A theoretical study is presented on the in-plane conductance of graphene that is partially sandwiched by Ni(111) slabs with a finite size and atom-scale width of $\approx12.08 \AA$. In the sandwiched part, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Yusuf Wicaksono , Halimah Harfah , Gagus Ketut Sunnardianto , Muhammad Aziz Majidi , Koichi Kusakabe

Quantum spin Hall insulator/metal interfaces are formed in graphene ribbons with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling by selectively doping two regions creating a potential step. For a clean graphene ribbon, the transmission of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Elsa Prada , Georgo Metalidis

We address the problem of spin-resolved scattering through spin-orbit nanostructures in graphene, i.e., regions of inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling on the nanometer scale. We discuss the phenomenon of spin-double refraction and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 D. Bercioux , A. De Martino

When combined with graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an ideal substrate and gate dielectric with which to build metalh-BN|graphene field-effect devices. We use first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations for…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-11 Menno Bokdam , Petr A. Khomyakov , Geert Brocks , Zhicheng Zhong , Paul J. Kelly

Heterostructures prepared from graphene and fluorographene (FG) using the technology of 2D printing on solid and flexible substrates were fabricated and studied. Excellent stability of printed graphene layers and, to a lesser degree,…

Electrons in graphene behave like Dirac fermions, permitting phenomena from high energy physics to be studied in a solid state setting. A key question is whether or not these Fermions are critically influenced by Coulomb correlations. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 James P. Reed , Bruno Uchoa , Young Il Joe , Yu Gan , Diego Casa , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte

Controllable synthesis of defect-free graphene is crucial for applications since the properties of graphene are highly sensitive to any deviations from the crystalline lattice. We focus here on the emerging use of liquid Cu catalysts, which…

The observed 97.7% optical transparency of graphene has been linked to the value 1/137 of the fine structure constant, by using results for noninteracting Dirac fermions. The agreement in three significant figures requires an explanation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel E. Sheehy , Joerg Schmalian