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We study the nature of edge states in extrinsically and spontaneously dimerized states of two-dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnets, by performing quantum Monte Carlo simulation. We show that a gapless edge mode emerges in the wide region…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-20 Takafumi Suzuki , Masahiro Sato

The fate of the charge-neutral Dirac point in graphene in a high magnetic field $H$ has been investigated at low temperatures ($T\sim$ 0.3 K). In samples with small $V_0$ (the gate voltage needed to access the Dirac point), the resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-21 Joseph G. Checkelsky , Lu Li , N. P. Ong

We present a magneto-infrared spectroscopy study on a newly identified three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal ZrTe$_5$. We observe clear transitions between Landau levels and their further splitting under magnetic field. Both the sequence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Y. Chen , Z. G. Chen , X. -Y. Song , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , F. Wang , N. L. Wang

We consider plane junctions with graphene electrodes, which are formed by a single-level system ("molecule") placed between the edges of two single-layer graphene half planes. We calculate the edge Green functions of the electrodes and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Jan Bundesmann , Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter

We report local conductivity imaging of edge states in monolayer graphene by millikelvin microwave impedance microscopy (MIM). At the charge-neutrality point, as the magnetic field increases, the local conductivity at the edge drops to zero…

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 study the Haldane model under strain using a tight-binding approach, and compare the obtained results with the continuum-limit approximation. As in graphene, nonuniform strain leads to a time-reversal preserving pseudo-magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Yen-Hung Ho , Eduardo V. Castro , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Magnetic fields are often used for characterizing transport in nanoscale materials. Recent magnetotransport experiments have demonstrated that ballistic transport is possible in graphene antidot lattices (GALs). These experiments have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Morten Rishøj Thomsen , Stephen Robert Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We report the formation of bound states in the continuum for Dirac-like fermions in structures composed by a trilayer graphene flake connected to nanoribbon leads. The existence of this kind of localized states can be proved by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Cortés , Leonor Chico , M. Pacheco , L. Rosales , P. A. Orellana

We derive a model of localized edge states in the finite width strip for two-dimensional electron gas formed in the hybrid system of bismuth monolayer deposited on the silicon interface and described by the nearly-free electron model with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 D. V. Khomitsky , A. A. Chubanov

The relativistic-like behavior of electrons in graphene significantly influences the interaction properties of these electrons in a quantizing magnetic field, resulting in more stable fractional quantum Hall effect states as compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tapash Chakraborty , Vadim Apalkov

Two-dimensional graphite sheets with a certain type of edges are known to support boundary states localized near the edges. Forming a flat band with a sharp peak in the density of states at the Fermi energy, they can trigger a magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Shinsei Ryu , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The flat band of edge states which occur in the simple tight-binding lattice model of graphene with a zig-zag edge have long been conjectured to take up a ferromagnetic configuration. In this work we demonstrate that, for a large class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Gordon W. Semenoff

We analyze the energy spectrum of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and a unidirectionally periodic Zeeman field, focusing on the stability and location of Dirac points it may support. It is found that the Dirac points at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Luis Brey , A. R. Carvalho , H. A. Fertig

We report on high-field magnetotransport (B up to 35 T) on a gated superlattice based on single-layer graphene aligned on top of hexagonal boron nitride. The large-period moir\'e modulation (15 nm) enables us to access the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 S. Pezzini , S. Wiedmann , A. Mishchenko , M. Holwill , R. Gorbachev , D. Ghazaryan , K. S. Novoselov , U. Zeitler

In this work we analyze infinite graphene nanoribbons subjected to non-uniform magnetic fields that produce topological domain walls in the quantum Hall regime. We show how the proximity between edge states from neighboring domains modifies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Ricardo Y. Díaz-Bonifaz , Carlos Ramírez

Electronic properties of the graphene layer sandwiched between two hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been studied using the first-principles calculations and the minimal tight-binding model. It is shown that for the ABC-stacked structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , P. Kosinski , Z. Klusek

Edge reconstruction modifies the electronic properties of finite graphene samples. We formulate a low-energy theory of the reconstructed zigzag edge by deriving the modified boundary condition to the Dirac equation. If the unit cell size of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 J. A. M. van Ostaay , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker , M. Wimmer

In this work, we investigate the massive Kane-Mele model for graphene in the presence of disclination and an external magnetic field, where graphene behaviors as a topological insulator. In the low-energy limit, the effective field equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 G. Q. Garcia , J. R. S. Oliveira , P. J. Porfírio , C. Furtado