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We present a tight-binding theory of triangular graphene quantum dots (TGQD) with zigzag edge and broken sublattice symmetry in external magnetic field. The lateral size quantization opens an energy gap and broken sublattice symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 A. D. Guclu , P. Potasz , P. Hawrylak

We suggest that physics underlying the recently observed removal of sublattice and spin degeneracies in graphene in a strong magnetic field describes a phase transition connected with the generation of excitonic and spin gaps. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , S. G. Sharapov , I. A. Shovkovy

We study the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling (graphene) in the presence of disorder and electron-electron interactions. We show that the interactions between the delocalized chiral edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

By considering the continuous model for graphene, we analytically study a special gauge field for the edge state. The gauge field explains the properties of the edge state such as the existence only on the zigzag edge, the partial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken-ichi Sasaki , Shuichi Murakami , Riichiro Saito

We investigate the fine structure of the edge states energy spectrum for zigzag and armchair ribbons of graphene in a strong magnetic field. At low energy, the spectra can be described by an effective Schrodinger Hamiltonian with a double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-05 Pierre Delplace , Gilles Montambaux

There has been tremendous recent progress in realizing topological insulator initiated by the proposal of Kane and Mele for the graphene system. They have suggested that the odd $Z_2$ index for the graphene manifests the spin filtered edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

We study the edge states in graphene in the presence of a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of the lattice. Most of the works done so far discuss the edge states in either zigzag or armchair edge graphene considering an isotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-06 Hari P. Dahal , Zi-Xiang Hu , N. A. Sinitsyn , Kun Yang , A. V. Balatsky

We investigate the effects of wedge disclination on charge carriers in circular graphene quantum dots subjected to a magnetic flux. Using the asymptotic solutions of the energy spectrum for large arguments, we approximate the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Ahmed Bouhlal , Ahmed Jellal , Nurisya Mohd Shah

While usual edge states in the quantum Hall effect(QHE) reside between adjacent Landau levels, QHE in graphene has a peculiar edge mode at E=0 that reside right within the n=0 Landau level as protected by the chiral symmetry. We have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Mitsuhiro Arikawa , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

We study the topologically non-trivial semi-metals by means of the 6-band Kane model. Existence of surface states is explicitly demonstrated by calculating the LDOS on the material surface. In the strain free condition, surface states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 Rui-Lin Chu , Wen-Yu Shan , Jie Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

It is generally believed that the inter-edge coupling destroys the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect along with the gap opening at the Dirac points. Using first-principles calculations, we find that the quantized edge transport persists in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Yuanchang Li

Many-body calculations of the total energy of interacting Dirac electrons in finite graphene samples exhibit joint occurrence of cusps at angular momenta corresponding to fractional fillings characteristic of formation of incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

The magnetism by the edge states in graphene is investigated theoretically. An instability of the pseudo-spin order of the edge states induces ferrimagnetic order in the presence of the Coulomb interaction. Although the next…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-28 Ken-ichi Sasaki , Riichiro Saito

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 investigate electronic transport in gapped bilayer graphene (gBLG) devices. For certain edge terminations -typically a combination of zigzag, armchair, and bearded types - we observe edge state conduction within the band gap, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jesús Arturo Sánchez-Sánchez , Thomas Stegmann

Properties of the boundary of two conductors in a quantizing magnetic field are studied: with conventional Dirac charge carriers and so-called pseudospin-1 fermions, which are realized in graphene-like and Lieb lattices respectively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 I. V. Kozlov , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

Due to nonzero intrinsic spin-orbit interaction in buckled honeycomb crystal structures, silicene and germanene exhibit interesting topological properties, and are therefore candidates for the realization of the quantum spin Hall effect. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Dusan Z. Jakovljevic , Marko M. Grujic , Milan Z. Tadic , Francois M. Peeters

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

The recent Quantum Hall experiments in graphene have confirmed the theoretically well-understood picture of the quantum Hall (QH) conductance in fermion systems with continuum Dirac spectrum. In this paper we take into account the lattice,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Han-Dong Chen , Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The edge states that emerge at hydrogen-terminated zigzag edges embedded in dominant armchair edges of graphite are carefully investigated by ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements. The edge states at the zigzag…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yousuke Kobayashi , Ken-ichi Fukui , Toshiaki Enoki , Koichi Kusakabe