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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene displays at different fillings of the four flat bands lying around the charge neutrality point a wealth of notable phases that include magnetic Chern insulators, whose magnetization is mostly of orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-07 Andrea Blason , Michele Fabrizio

Monolayer graphene at neutrality in the quantum Hall regime has many competing ground states with various types of ordering. The outcome of this competition is modified by the presence of the sample boundaries. In this paper we use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-13 Angelika Knothe , Thierry Jolicoeur

We study the interplay between a Kekul\'e patterned distortion in monolayer graphene and a monochromatic laser irradiation, focusing in the long wavelength approximation of its Landau level structure. Exploiting the symmetries of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 A. López , F. Mireles

We present a comprehensive theory of the Dyakonov-Shur (DS) plasma instability in current-biased graphene transistors. Using the hydrodynamic approach, we derive equations describing the DS instability in the two-dimensional electron fluid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Justin Crabb , Xavier Cantos-Roman , Josep M. Jornet , Gregory R. Aizin

We investigate the excitonic instability in the theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. We analyze the electron-hole vertex relevant for exciton condensation in the ladder approximation, showing that it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 J. Gonzalez

We show that the interaction between flexural phonons, when corrected by the exchange of electron-hole excitations, may place the graphene sheet very close to a quantum critical point characterized by the strong suppression of the bending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. San-Jose , J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea

Electronic and transport properties of Graphene, a one-atom thick crystalline material, are sensitive to the presence of atoms adsorbed on its surface. An ensemble of randomly positioned adatoms, each serving as a scattering center, leads…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 V. V. Cheianov , V. I. Fal'ko , O. Syljuasen , B. L. Altshuler

By means of numerical simulations, we explore possible effects of a special interparticle interaction potential which is a function of external and internal conditions of graphene-like systems. In addition to the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Elena Konstantinova , Ricardo Spagnuolo Martins

We present a comprehensive investigation of the structural and electronic properties of Sn intercalated buffer layers on SiC(0001) using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (LT-STM/STS), spot-profile analysis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Huu Thoai Ngo , Zamin Mamiyev , Niklas Witt , Tim Wehling , Christoph Tegenkamp

The development of a Turing instability to a spatially modulated state in a photoexcited electron-hole system is proposed as a novel signature of exciton Bose statistics. We show that such an instability, which is driven by kinetics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , B. D. Simons , L. V. Butov

In this article we briefly review recent experimental and theoretical work on quantum Hall effect in graphene, and argue that some of the quantum Hall states exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking that is driven by electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Kun Yang

We address the question of the stability of the (fractional) quantum Hall effect (QHE) in presence of pseudomagnetic disorder generated by mechanical deformations of a graphene sheet. Neglecting the potential disorder and taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrey A. Bagrov , Alessandro Principi , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Isotopic effects are relevant to understand several properties of solids, and have been thoroughly analyzed along the years. These effects may depend on the dimensionality of the considered solid. Here we assess their magnitude for…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-04 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez

The Coulomb interaction between massless Dirac fermions may induce dynamical chiral symmetry breaking by forming excitonic pairs in clean graphene, leading to semimetal-insulator transition. If the Dirac fermions have zero bare mass, an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-26 Chun-Xu Zhang , Guo-Zhu Liu , Ming-Qiu Huang

We discuss models of the modulational instability in a cold exciton system in coupled quantum wells. One mechanism involves exciton formation in a photoexcited electron-hole system in the presence of stimulated binding processes which build…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-13 L S Levitov , B D Simons , L V Butov

The graphene superlattice equation, a modified sine-Gordon equation, governs the propagation of solitary electromagnetic waves in a graphene superlattice. This equation has kink solutions without explicit analytical expression, requiring…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-04 Francisca Martin-Vergara , Francisco Rus , Francisco R. Villatoro

When a graphene layer is stressed, the strain alters the phase an electron accumulates hopping between sites in a way that can be modeled as arising from a pseudo-magnetic vector potential. We examine the case of an oscillating graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 Anita Bhagat , Kieran Mullen

Intervalley scattering of carriers in graphene at `top' adatoms may give rise to a hidden Kekul\'e ordering pattern in the adatom positions. This ordering is the result of a rapid modulation in the electron-mediated interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 L. González-Árraga , F. Guinea , P. San-Jose

The exciton Wannier equation for graphene is solved for different background dielectric constants. It is shown that freestanding graphene features strong Coulomb effects with a very large exciton binding energy exceeding $3\,$eV. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-29 J. H. Grönqvist , T. Stroucken , G. Berghäuser , S. W. Koch

We study the graphene lattice with a curvature effect. The action depicting multilayers of graphene is portrayed in curved spacetime and effective Dirac equation scopes the curvature effect. The magnetic field is responsible for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 M. J. I. Khan , M. Kamran , S. Babar