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Low dimensional magnetic systems (such as spin-chain) are extensively studied due to their exotic magnetic properties. Here, we would like to address that such systems should also be interesting in the field of dielectric, ferroelectricity…

We study the effects of the electron-electron interactions on the excitonic properties and charge-density modulations in the AB stacked double-layer (DL) graphene, placed in the external gate-potential $V$. The coexistence of the canted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-24 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopeć

Tailor-made graphene nanostructures can exhibit symmetry-protected topological boundary states that host localized spin-$1/2$ moments. However, one frequently observes charge transfer on coinage metal substrates, which results in spinless…

Spin orbit coupling changes graphene, in principle, into a two-dimensional topological insulator, also known as quantum spin Hall insulator. One of the expected consequences is the existence of spin-filtered edge states that carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Gosálbez-Martínez , D. Soriano , J. J. Palacios , J. Fernández-Rossier

We suggest that by applying a magnetic field lying in the plane of graphene layer one may facilitate an excitonic condensation of electron-hole pairs with opposite spins and chiralities. The provided calculations yield a conservative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-02 D. E. Kharzeev , S. A. Reyes , A. M. Tsvelik

Competing inhomogeneous orders are a central feature of correlated electron materials including the high-temperature superconductors. The two- dimensional Hubbard model serves as the canonical microscopic physical model for such systems.…

We propose a mechanism for the recently reported destabilization by an in-plane magnetic field of the conducting phase of low density electrons in 2D. We apply our self-consistent approach based on the memory function formalism to the fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Thakur , D. Neilson

We perform first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to study quasi one-dimensional edge-passivated (with hydrogen) zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) of various widths with chemical dopants, boron and nitrogen,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-10 Sudipta Dutta , Arun K. Manna , Swapan K. Pati

The two-dimensional electron systems in graphene and in topological insulators are described by massless Dirac equations. Although the two systems have similar Hamiltonians, they are polar opposites in terms of spin-orbit coupling strength.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

The magnetic phases induced by the interplay between disorder acting only on particles with a given spin projection ("spin-dependent disorder") and a local repulsive interaction is explored. To this end the magnetic ground state phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-26 J. Skolimowski , D. Vollhardt , K. Byczuk

Dirac electrons in graphene are to lowest order spin 1/2 particles, owing to the orbital symmetries at the Fermi level. However, anisotropic corrections in the $g$-factor appear due to the intricate spin-valley-orbit coupling of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Marta Prada , Lars Tiemann , Jonas Sichau , Robert H Blick

We theoretically study the occurrence of Bloch oscillations in biased hybrid graphene systems with spin-dependent superlattices. The spin-dependent potential is realized by a set of ferromagnetic insulator strips deposited on top of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 E. Díaz , K. Miralles , F. Domínguez-Adame , C. Gaul

Half-metals have been envisioned as active components in spintronic devices by virtue of their completely spin-polarized electrical currents. Actual materials hosting half-metallic phases, however, remain scarce. Here, we predict that…

We investigate higher-order plasmons in graphene nanoribbons, and present how electronic edge states and wavefunction fine structure influence the graphene plasmons. Based on nearest-neighbor tight-binding calculations, we find that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Kåre Obel Wedel , N. Asger Mortensen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Martijn Wubs

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has become one of the prominent topics in Condensed Matter during the last few years, however, fully atomistic studies of the interacting physics are missing. In this work, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Tobias Stauber

We use the state-of-the-arts density-functional-theory method to study various magnetic orders and their effects on the electronic structures of the FeSe. Our calculated results show that, for the spins of the single Fe layer, the striped…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-21 Yong-Feng Li , Li-Fang Zhu , San-Dong Guo , Ye-Chuan Xu , Bang-Gui Liu

Using mean-field theory, we determine the electronic phase diagram of undoped AB-stacked bilayer graphene in the presence of a transverse electric field. In addition to multiple competing electronic instabilities characterized by excitonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov

We overview recent developments of electronic orderings and associated cross correlations in condensed matter physics based on a complete set of multipole representations (electric, magnetic, electric toroidal, and magnetic toroidal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-06 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose

Multiferroics are compounds in which at least two ferroic orders coexist - typically (anti)ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity. While magnetic order can arise in both insulating and conducting compounds, ferroelectricity is in principle not…

We study the electronic properties of electrons in flat and curved zigzag graphene ribbons using a tight-binding model within the Slater Koster approximation. We find that curvature dramatically enhances the action of spin orbit effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Gosálbez-Martínez , J. J. Palacios , J. Fernández-Rossier