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Theoretical investigation of Dirac electrons in electrically modulated graphene under perpendicular magnetic field B is presented. We have carried out a detailed study of modulation effect on Dirac electrons, which determine its electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 M Arsalan Ali

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

In graphene, which is an atomic layer of crystalline carbon, two of the distinguishing properties of the material are the charge carriers two-dimensional and relativistic character. The first experimental evidence of the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Fabian Duerr , Adina Luican , Eva Y. Andrei

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

This short theoretical review deals with some essential ingredients for the understanding of the quantum Hall effect in graphene in comparison with the effect in conventional two-dimensional electron systems with a parabolic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig

We calculate the mode-dependent transmission probability of massless Dirac fermions through an ideal strip of graphene (length L, width W, no impurities or defects), to obtain the conductance and shot noise as a function of Fermi energy. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Tworzydlo , B. Trauzettel , M. Titov , A. Rycerz , C. W. J. Beenakker

We present extensive numerical results for the thermodynamic density of states (i.e. quantum capacitance) of a two-dimensional massless Dirac fermion fluid in a doped graphene sheet. In particular, by employing the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-23 Reza Asgari , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

This paper is aimed to review and promote the main applications of the methods of Quantum Field Theory to description of quantum effects in graphene. We formulate the effective electromagnetic action following from the Dirac model for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-22 Ignat V. Fialkovsky , Dmitri V. Vassilevich

The recent Quantum Hall experiments in graphene have confirmed the theoretically well-understood picture of the quantum Hall (QH) conductance in fermion systems with continuum Dirac spectrum. In this paper we take into account the lattice,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Han-Dong Chen , Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We show that, when graphene is subjected to an appropriate one-dimensional external periodic potential, additional branches of massless fermions are generated with nearly the same electron-hole crossing energy as that at the original Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Cheol-Hwan Park , Young-Woo Son , Li Yang , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

We study the quantum Hall effect in the surface states of topological insulator in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field in the framework of edge states. Motion of Dirac fermions will form descrete Landau levels, among which a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Shun-Qing Shen

A general discussion of graphene in external electromagnetic field is provided. In general, the formulation is not Lorentz invariant because of Zeeman energy. But it can be restored approxiamtely in the case of strong magnetic field, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Sze-Shiang feng , Mogus Mochena

We investigate the quantum Hall effect in graphene. We argue that in graphene in presence of an external magnetic field there is dynamical generation of mass by a rearrangement of the Dirac sea. We show that the mechanism breaks the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Paolo Cea

The low energy electronic excitations in single layer and bilayer graphite (graphene) resemble quantum-relativistic particles also known as Dirac Fermions (DF). They possess an internal degree of freedom, chirality, that leads to unusual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei

We investigate in some detail the structure of the electromagnetic current density for the pseudo-relativistic massless spinor effective model for graphene. It is shown that the pseudo-relativistic massless Dirac field theory in {\em 2+1}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Giacconi , Roberto Soldati

We suggest that physics underlying the recently observed removal of sublattice and spin degeneracies in graphene in a strong magnetic field describes a phase transition connected with the generation of an excitonic gap. The experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , S. G. Sharapov , I. A. Shovkovy

Starting from the graphene lattice tight-binding Hamiltonian with an on-site U and long-range Coulomb repulsion, we derive an interacting continuum Dirac theory governing the low-energy behavior of graphene in an applied magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The ability to localize and manipulate individual quasiparticles in mesoscopic structures is critical in experimental studies of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, and in potential quantum information devices, e.g., for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Scott Mills , Anna Gura , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Matthew Dawber , Dmitri Averin , Xu Du

We have discovered two-dimensional zero-gap material with a layered structure in the organic conductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ under high hydrostatic pressure. In contrast to graphene, the electron-hole symmetry is not good except at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 N. Tajima , R. Kato , S. Sugawara , Y. Nishio , K. Kajita

Starting from the photon self-energy tensor in a magnetized medium, the 3D complete antisymmetric form of the conductivity tensor is found in the static limit of a fermion system $C$ non-invariant under fermion-antifermion exchange. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 A. Pérez Martínez , E. Rodriguez Querts , H. Pérez Rojas , R. Gaitan , S. Rodriguez Romo