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When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

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

Graphene is a monoatomic layer of graphite with Carbon atoms arranged in a two dimensional honeycomb lattice configuration. It has been known for more than sixty years that the electronic structure of graphene can be modelled by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-09 Jiannis K. Pachos

We report the application of the nonlinear $\sigma$ model to study the multi-skyrmion problem in the quantum Hall ferromagnet system. We make use of a first-principle calculation to derive an analytical form for the inter-skyrmionic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Abolfath , M. R. Ejtehadi

The relativistic massless charge carriers with a Fermi velocity of about c300 in graphene enable us to realize two distinct types of resonances (c, the speed of light in vacuum). One is electron whispering-gallery mode in graphene quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Qi Zheng , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

We study the competition between the long-range Coulomb interaction, disorder scattering, and lattice effects in the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in graphene. By direct transport calculations, both $\nu=1$ and $\nu=3$ IQHE states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane , Leon Balents

Collective excitations in graphene monolayer are studied. Equations describing collective properties of electrons in graphene are obtained. The basic ideas of the method of many-particle quantum hydrodynamics are used for the derivation. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Pavel A. Andreev

We study the electronic structures and topological properties of $(M+N)$-layer twisted graphene systems. We consider the generic situation that $N$-layer graphene is placed on top of the other $M$-layer graphene, and is twisted with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jianpeng Liu , Zhen Ma , Jinhua Gao , Xi Dai

We study the band structures of hybrid graphene quantum dots subject to a magnetic flux and electrostatic potential. The system is consisting of a circular single layer graphene surrounded by an infinite bilayer graphene. By solving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Bouchaib Lemaalem , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal

The dynamics responsible for lifting the degeneracy of the Landau levels in the quantum Hall (QH) effect in graphene is studied by utilizing a low-energy effective model with a contact interaction. A detailed analysis of the solutions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

We numerically study the interplay of band structure, topological invariant and disorder effect in two-dimensional electron system of graphene in a magnetic field. Two \emph{distinct} quantum Hall effect (QHE) regimes exist in the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. N. Sheng , L. Sheng , Z. Y. Weng

The effects of gauge interactions in graphene have been analyzed up to now in terms of effective models of Dirac fermions. However, in several cases lattice effects play an important role and need to be taken consistently into account. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-19 Alessandro Giuliani , Vieri Mastropietro , Marcello Porta

Graphene corrugations affect hybridization of $\pi$ and $\sigma$ orbitals of carbon atoms in graphene based systems. It can as well break differently the symmetry of the electron transfer integrals for different strip boundaries. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 M. Pudlak , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We report on a study of the charged-skyrmion or spin-texture excitations which occur in quantum Hall ferromagnets near odd Landau level filling factors. Particle-hole symmetry is used to relate the spin-quantum numbers of charged particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 H. A. Fertig , L. Brey , R. Cote , A. H. MacDonald , A. Karlhede , S. L. Sondhi

A self-consistent theory involving Maxwell equations and a density-matrix linear-response theory is solved for an electromagnetically-coupled doped graphene micro-ribbon array and a quantum-well electron gas sitting at an interface between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak

Interaction in a flat band is magnified due to the divergence in the density of states, which gives rise to a variety of many-body phenomena such as ferromagnetism and Wigner crystallization. Until now, however, most studies of the flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuanping Chen , Shenglong Xu , Yuee Xie , Chengyong Zhong , Congjun Wu , S. B. Zhang

Flat band moir\'e graphene systems have emerged as a quintessential platform to investigate correlated phases of matter. A plethora of interaction-driven ground states have been proposed, and yet despite extensive experimental effort, there…

Many-body effects on quantum capacitance, compressibility, renormalized Fermi velocity, kinetic and interaction energies of massless Dirac electrons in graphene, induced by the Coulomb interactions, are analyzed theoretically in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Yu. E. Lozovik , A. A. Sokolik , A. D. Zabolotskiy

Bilayer graphene has a unique electronic structure influenced by a complex interplay between various degrees of freedom. We probe its chemical potential using double bilayer graphene heterostructures, separated by a hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-08 Kayoung Lee , Babak Fallahazad , Jiamin Xue , David C. Dillen , Kyounghwan Kim , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Emanuel Tutuc

Graphene subject to high levels of shear strain leads to strong pseudo-magnetic fields resulting in the emergence of Landau levels. Here we show that, with modest levels of strain, graphene can also sustain a classical valley hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla