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We have investigated the weak antilocalization (WAL) in the pressurized Dirac semimetal $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ across a correlation-driven quantum phase transition to a charge-ordered insulating state and evaluated the phase coherence…

We study the confinement of Dirac fermions in graphene and in carbon nanotubes by an external magnetic field, mechanical deformations or inhomogeneities in the substrate. By applying variational principles to the square of the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Vit Jakubsky , David Krejcirik

The general covariance of the Dirac equation is exploited in order to explore the curvature effects appearing in the electronic properties of graphene. Two physical situations are then considered: the weak curvature regime, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Pavel Castro-Villarreal , R. Ruiz-Sánchez

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

We study the thermal and electric transport of a fluid of interacting Dirac fermions as they arise in single-layer graphene. We include Coulomb interactions, a dilute density of charged impurities and the presence of a magnetic field to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-31 Markus Mueller , Lars Fritz , Subir Sachdev , Joerg Schmalian

We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in ballistic graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10 to 40 nm. We determine wavefunctions and energy level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Libisch , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer

Understanding Dirac-like Fermions has become an imperative in modern condensed matter sciences: all across its research frontier, from graphene to high T$_c$ superconductors to the topological insulators and beyond, various electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Oskar Vafek , Ashvin Vishwanath

The low energy physics of both graphene and surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators is described by gapless Dirac fermions with linear dispersion. In this work, we predict the emergence of a "heavy" Dirac fermion in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Wendong Cao , Rui-Xing Zhang , Peizhe Tang , Gang Yang , Jorge Sofo , Wenhui Duan , Chao-Xing Liu

We present a theory of weak localization (WL) in the presence of generic spin-dependent fields, including any type of spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman fields, and non-homogeneous magnetic textures. We go beyond the usual diffusive approximation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Alberto Hijano , Stefan Ilić , F. Sebastián Bergeret

We study fluctuations of the conductance of micron-sized graphene devices as a function of the Fermi energy and magnetic field. The fluctuations are studied in combination with analysis of weak localization which is determined by the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko , F. V. Tikhonenko , K. Kechedzhi , I. V. Lerner , V. I. Fal'ko

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

We separate localization and interaction effects in epitaxial graphene devices grown on the C-face of a 4H-SiC substrate by analyzing the low temperature conductivities. Weak localization and antilocalization are extracted at low magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. Jouault , B. Jabakhanji , N. Camara , W. Desrat , C. Consejo , J. Camassel

Composite fermions in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are believed to form a Fermi sea of weakly interacting particles at half filling $\nu=1/2$. Recently, it was proposed (D. T. Son, Phys. Rev. X 5, 031027 (2015)) that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Antti Laitinen , Manohar Kumar , Pertti J. Hakonen

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yuanchang Li , Pengcheng Chen , Gang Zhou , Jia Li , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

We report scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) of twisted graphene bilayer on SiC substrate. For twist angle ~ 4.5o the Dirac point ED is located about 0.40 eV below the Fermi level EF due to the electron doping at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Lan Meng , Yanfeng Zhang , Wei Yan , Lei Feng , Lin He , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie

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

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We have investigated the absorption spectrum of multilayer graphene in high magnetic fields. The low energy part of the spectrum of electrons in graphene is well described by the relativistic Dirac equation with a linear dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Plochocka , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , M. L. Sadowski , G. Martinez , M. Potemski , M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

We present an undergraduate lab that investigates weak localization in thin silver films. The films prepared in our lab have thickness, $a$, between 60-200 \AA, a mesoscopic length scale. At low temperatures, the inelastic dephasing length…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Beyer , M. Koesters , K. G. Libbrecht , E. D. Black