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Borophene is a monolayer materials made of boron. A perfect planar boropehene called $\beta_{12}$ borophene has Dirac cones and they are well reproduced by a tight-binding model according to recent experimental and first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 Motohiko Ezawa

The present article discusses magnetic confinement of the Dirac excitations in graphene in presence of inhomogeneous magnetic fields. In the first case a magnetic field directed along the z axis whose magnitude is proportional to $1/r$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pratim Roy , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Kaushik Bhattacharya

At low energy, electrons in doped graphene sheets behave like massless Dirac fermions with a Fermi velocity which does not depend on carrier density. Here we show that modulating a two-dimensional electron gas with a long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 M. Gibertini , A. Singha , V. Pellegrini , M. Polini , G. Vignale , A. Pinczuk , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

New Dirac points appear when periodic potentials are applied to graphene, and there are many interesting effects near these new Dirac points. Here we investigate the $\textit{Zitterbewegung}$ effect of fermions described by a Gaussian wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Jianli Luan , Shangyang Li , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang

Electronic structures of the zigzag bilayer graphite nanoribbons(Z-BGNR) with various ribbon width $N$ are studied within the tight binding approximation. Neglecting the inter-layer hopping amplitude $\gamma_4$, which is an order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

The virial theorem for a system of interacting electrons in a crystal, which is described within the framework of the tight-binding model, is derived. We show that, in particular case of interacting massless electrons in graphene and other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 A. A. Sokolik , A. D. Zabolotskiy , Yu. E. Lozovik

We study the quasiparticle properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions when the many-body states possess a finite momentum density in the clean limit. The lack of Galilean invariance endows the many-body states at finite momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Inti Sodemann

We consider a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of metallic nanoparticles, each supporting a localized surface plasmon, and study the quantum properties of the collective plasmons resulting from the near field dipolar interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Guillaume Weick , Claire Woollacott , William L. Barnes , Ortwin Hess , Eros Mariani

A class of graphene wound into three-dimensional periodic curved surfaces ("graphitic zeolites") is proposed and their electronic structures are obtained to explore how the massless Dirac fermions behave on periodic surfaces. We find in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

We investigate nonequilibrium excitations and charge transport in charge-neutral graphene driven with DC electric field by using the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. Due to the vanishing Fermi surface, electrons are subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Jiajun Li , Jong E. Han

We study the low-energy electronic transport across periodic extended defects in graphene. In the continuum low-energy limit, such defects act as infinitesimally thin stripes separating two regions where Dirac Hamiltonian governs the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 J. N. B. Rodrigues , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Tight binding electrons on a honeycomb lattice are described by an effective Dirac theory at low energies. Lowering symmetry by an alternate ionic potential ($\Delta$) generates a single-particle gap in the spectrum. We employ the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-30 M. Ebrahimkhas , S. A. Jafari

We explore a two-dimensional Hubbard model adapted to host altermagnetic states. Utilizing Hartree-Fock (HF) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), we uncover that the magnetic solutions of this model feature Dirac points in their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Lorenzo Del Re

The analytical expressions for both diagonal and off-diagonal ac and dc conductivities of graphene placed in an external magnetic field are derived. These conductivities exhibit rather unusual behavior as functions of frequency, chemical…

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

We demonstrate the emergence and dynamics of intra-particle entanglement in massless Dirac fermions. This entanglement, generated by spin-orbit coupling, arises between the spin and sublattice pseudospin of electrons in graphene. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Bruna Gabrielly de Moraes , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Caglar Girit , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

Nondecaying bound states of elementary spin-half particles are validated and calculated numerically for the Schwarzschild gravitational field using a self-conjugate Hamiltonian with a flat scalar product for any value of the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-11 M. A. Vronsky , M. V. Gorbatenko , N. S. Kolesnikov , V. P. Neznamov , E. Yu. Popov , I. I. Safronov

Graphene, Silicene, $\mathrm{MoS}_2$ and other similar two-dimensional structures have unusual electronic properties that lend themselves to exotic device applications. These properties emanate from the fact that the electrons are endowed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Sushanta Dattagupta , Manvendra Singh

We consider graphene superlattice miniband fermions probed by electronic interferometry in magneto-transport experiments. By decoding the observed Fabry-P\'erot interference patterns together with our corresponding quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Kraft , M. -H. Liu , P. B. Selvasundaram , S. -C. Chen , R. Krupke , K. Richter , R. Danneau