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Graphene properties can be manipulated by a periodic potential. Based on the tight-binding model, we study graphene under a one-dimensional (1D) modulated magnetic field which contains both a uniform and a staggered component. New chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-18 Lei Xu , Jin An , Chang-De Gong

The density of states and differential entropy per particle are analyzed for Dirac-like electrons in graphene subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field. For comparison, the derived density of states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Andrii A. Chaika , Yelizaveta Kulynych , D. O. Oriekhov , Sergei G. Sharapov

Two-dimensional electrons in graphene are known to behave as massless fermions with Dirac-Weyl type linear dispersion near the Dirac crossing points. We have investigated the collective excitations of this system in the presence or absence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim Apalkov , Xue-Feng Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene with N>=2 is susceptible to a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which each spin-valley flavor spontaneously transfers charge between layers. In mean-field theory the neutral bilayer ground state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-02 Fan Zhang , Allan H. MacDonald

In the anomalous quantum Hall effect (QHE), a hallmark of graphene, nature of the edge states in magnetic fields poses an important question, since the edge and bulk should be intimately related in QHE. Here we have theoretically studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-01 Mitsuhiro Arikawa , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

The electronic structure of Bernal-stacked graphite subject to tilted magnetic fields has been investigated using infrared magneto-transmission experiments. With the increasing in-plane component of the magnetic field B, we observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 N. A. Goncharuk , L. Nadvornik , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , L. Smrcka

The occurrence of Landau levels in quantum mechanics when a charged particle is subjected to a uniform magnetic field is well known. Considering the recent interest in the electronic properties of graphene, which admits a dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Aritra Ghosh

We propose that the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be understood as Dirac fermions coupled with opposite pseudo magnetic fields generated by the moir\'e pattern. The two low-energy flat bands from each monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jianpeng Liu , Junwei Liu , Xi Dai

Edge excitations of the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state in monolayer graphene are studied within the mean-field theory with different symmetry-breaking terms. The analytical expressions for the continuum (Dirac) model wave functions are obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 P. K. Pyatkovskiy , V. A. Miransky

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 paper addresses boundary electronic properties of graphene with a complex edge structure of the armchair/zigzag/armchair type. It is shown that the finite zigzag region supports edge bound states with discrete equidistant spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-02 Grigory Tkachov

Dirac electrons in finite graphene samples with zigzag edges under high magnetic fields (in the regime of Landau-level formation) are investigated with regard to their bulk-type and edge-type character. We employ tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We investigate the effect of edges on the intrinsic electron-electron interaction driven d-wave superconducting state in graphene doped close to the van Hove singularity. While the bulk is in a chiral $d_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy}$ state, the order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We study edge-states in graphene systems where a bulk energy gap is opened by inversion symmetry breaking. We find that the edge-bands dispersion can be controlled by potentials applied on the boundary with unit cell length scale. Under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-11 Wang Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Qian Niu

We report on numerical study of the Dirac fermions in partially filled N=3 Landau level (LL) in graphene. At half-filling, the equal-time density-density correlation function displays sharp peaks at nonzero wavevectors $\pm {\bf q^{*}}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-31 Hao Wang , D. N. Sheng , L. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane

We present the theory of the inplane magnetoresistance in two-dimensional massless Dirac fermion systems including the Zeeman splitting and the electron-electron interaction effect on the Landau level broadening within a random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Takao Morinari , Takami Tohyama

We point out that the zero-energy Landau level of Dirac fermions in graphene can be, in the presence of a repulsive electron-electron interaction, split into two (levels) associated with a "bond ordering" formation having a "Kekule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Takahiro Fukui , Hideo Aoki

Using a model Hamiltonian approach including electron-electron interactions, we systematically investigate the electronic structure and magnetic properties of chiral graphene nanoribbons. We show that the presence of magnetic edge states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 Oleg V. Yazyev , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Steven G. Louie

The low-energy physics of graphene is described by relativistic Dirac fermions with spin and valley degrees of freedom. Mechanical strain can be used to create a pseudo magnetic field pointing to opposite directions in the two valleys. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-29 Ying-Hai Wu , Tao Shi , G. J. Sreejith , Zheng-Xin Liu