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The current flow along the boundary of graphene stripes in a perpendicular magnetic field is studied theoretically by the nonequilibrium Green's function method. In the case of specular reflections at the boundary, the Hall resistance shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Thomas Stegmann , Axel Lorke

Spatially inhomogeneous strains in graphene can simulate the effects of valley-dependent magnetic fields. As demonstrated in recent experiments, the realizable magnetic fields are large enough to give rise to well-defined flat pseudo-Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Pouyan Ghaemi , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Shinsei Ryu

We investigate the quantum Hall (QH) states near the charge neutral Dirac point of a high mobility graphene sample in high magnetic fields. We find that the QH states at filling factors $\nu=\pm1$ depend only on the perpendicular component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Z. Jiang , Y. Zhang , H. L. Stormer , P. Kim

We investigate the properties of magnon edge states in a ferromagnetic honeycomb lattice with armchair boundaries. In contrast with fermionic graphene, we find novel edge states due to the missing bonds along the boundary sites. After…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Pierre A. Pantaleón , Yang Xian

This paper presents a theoretical analysis on bulk and edge states in honeycomb lattice photonic crystals with and without time-reversal and/or space-inversion symmetries. Multiple Dirac cones are found in the photonic band structure and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tetsuyuki Ochiai , Masaru Onoda

The boundaries of quantum materials can host a variety of exotic effects such as topologically robust edge states or anyonic quasiparticles. Here, we show that fermionic systems such as graphene that admit a low energy Dirac description can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Matthew D. Horner , Jiannis K. Pachos

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

Dirac fermions interacting with a cylindrically symmetric quantum dot potential created in single and bilayer graphene are not confined but form quasi-bound states. The broadening of these quasi-bound states (i. e. the inverse of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We analyze interaction effects on boundary states of single layer graphene. Near a half filled band, both short and long-ranged interactions lead to a fully spin polarized configuration. In addition, the band of boundary states acquires a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-07-17 B. Wunsch , T. Stauber , F. Sols , F. Guinea

Atomic collapse in graphene nanoribbons behaves in a fundamentally different way as compared to monolayer graphene, due to the presence of multiple energy bands and the effect of edges. For armchair nanoribbons we find that bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jing Wang , Robbe Van Pottelberge , Amber Jacobs , Ben Van Duppen , Francois M. Peeters

Using first-principles density-functional theory, we study the electronic structure of multilayer graphene nanoribbons as a function of the ribbon width and the external electric field, applied perpendicular to the ribbon layers. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Bhagawan Sahu , Hongki Min , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Quantum materials that host a flat band, such as pseudospin-1 lattices and magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, can exhibit drastically new physical phenomena including unconventional superconductivity, orbital ferromagnetism, and Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hong-Ya Xu , Ying-Cheng Lai

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect and the quantum valley Hall (QVH) effect are three peculiar topological insulating phases in graphene. They are characterized by three different types of edge states. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

We study the effects of an in-plane magnetic field on the ground state properties of both gapless and gapped graphene sheets within Random Phase Approximation. The critical magnetic field which leads to a fully spin polarized phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-01 A. Qaiumzadeh , Reza Asgari

We investigate the way that the degenerate manifold of midgap edge states in quasicircular graphene quantum dots with zig-zag boundaries supports, under free-magnetic-field conditions, strongly correlated many-body behavior analogous to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We derive semiclassical quantization equations for graphene mono- and bilayer systems where the excitations are confined by the applied inhomogeneous magnetic field. The importance of a semiclassical phase, a consequence of the spinor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 A. Kormanyos , P. Rakyta , L. Oroszlany , J. Cserti

The paper reports a theoretical study of scattering of electrons by edges in graphene and its effect on Raman scattering. First, effective models are discussed for translationally invariant and rough edges. Second, they are used in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-28 D. M. Basko

The gap equation for Dirac quasiparticles in monolayer graphene in constant magnetic and pseudomagnetic fields, where the latter is due to strain, is studied in a low-energy effective model with contact interactions. Analyzing solutions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-14 D. O. Rybalka , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

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

Electron edge states in graphene in the Quantum Hall effect regime can carry both charge and spin. We show that spin splitting of the zeroth Landau level gives rise to counterpropagating modes with opposite spin polarization. These chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 D. A. Abanin , P. A. Lee , L. S. Levitov
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