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We study electron transport in nanostructures patterned in bilayer graphene patches grown epitaxially on SiC as a function of doping, magnetic field, and temperature. Away from charge neutrality transport is only weakly modulated by changes…

An analytic theory of electron transport in disordered graphene in a ballistic geometry is developed. We consider a sample of a large width W and analyze the evolution of the conductance, the shot noise, and the full statistics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-03 A. Schuessler , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

We have studied the electronic properties in aperiodic graphene superlattices of Thue-Morse sequence. Although the structure is aperiodic, an unusual Dirac point (DP) does exist and its location is exactly at the position of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 Tianxing Ma , Chun Liang , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

Stacking two graphene layers twisted by the 'magic angle' $\theta \approx 1.1^\circ$ generates flat energy bands, which in turn catalyzes various strongly correlated phenomena depending on filling and sample details. At charge neutrality,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Alex Thomson , Jason Alicea

We study the conductance of disordered graphene superlattices with short-range structural correlations. The system consists of electron- and hole-doped graphenes of various thicknesses, which fluctuate randomly around their mean value. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Abedpour , Ayoub Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

Electronic band gap and transport in quasi-periodic graphene superlattice of double-periodic sequence have been investigated. It is found that such quasi-periodic structure can possess a zero-averaged wave number (zero-$\bar{k}$) gap which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Qi-Biao Zhu

We propose a mechanism to explain the fluctuations of the ground state energy in quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. Employing the random matrix theory we show that shape deformations may change the adjacent peak spacing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Raul O. Vallejos , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

The chemical stability of graphene and other free-standing two-dimensional crystals means that they can be stacked in different combinations to produce a new class of functional materials, designed for specific device applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 L. Britnell , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. Mishchenko , M. T. Greenaway , T. M. Fromhold , K. S. Novoselov , L. Eaves

Neutrino billiards serve as a model system for the study of aspects of relativistic quantum chaos. These are relativistic quantum billiards consisting of a spin-1/2 particle which is confined to a planar domain by imposing boundary…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-16 Barbara Dietz

In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing phenomenon arises with the intrinsic charge transport behavior at the Dirac point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Xu Du

The electrons in undoped graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions. Therefore graphene can serve as an unique condensed-matter laboratory for the study of various relativistic effects, including quantum electrodynamics (QED) phenomena.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 O. V. Kibis , O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

We review the energy spectrum and transport properties of several types of one- dimensional superlattices (SLs) on single-layer and bilayer graphene. In single-layer graphene, for certain SL parameters an electron beam incident on a SL is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

The above question is frequently asked by theorists who are interested in graphene as a model system, especially in context of relativistic quantum physics. We offer an experimental answer by describing electron transport in suspended…

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the character of disorder. Away from half filling, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Guided by the analogy to Mie scattering of light on small particles we show that the propagation of a Dirac-electron wave in graphene can be manipulated by a circular gated region acting as a quatum dot. Large dots enable electron lensing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. L. Heinisch , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

Graphene quantum dots provide promising platforms for hosting spin, valley, or spin-valley qubits. Taking advantage of the electrically generated band gap and the ambipolar nature, high-quality quantum dots can be defined in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Fang-Ming Jing , Guo-Quan Qin , Zhuo-Zhi Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Song , Guo-Ping Guo

We develop an Effective Medium Theory to study the electrical transport properties of disordered graphene. The theory includes non-linear screening and exchange-correlation effects allowing us to consider experimentally relevant strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 Enrico Rossi , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

We investigate transport in a three-terminal graphene quantum dot. All nine elements of the conductance matrix have been independently measured. In the Coulomb blockade regime accurate measurements of individual conductance resonances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. Jacobsen , P. Simonet , K. Ensslin , T. Ihn

We present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer