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Controlling energy flows in solids through switchable electron-lattice cooling can grant access to a range of interesting and potentially useful energy transport phenomena. Here we discuss a unique switchable electron-lattice cooling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Jian Feng Kong , Leonid Levitov , Dorri Halbertal , Eli Zeldov

It is well known that there are resonant states with complex energy for the supercritical Coulomb impurity in graphene. We show that opening of a quasiparticle gap decreases the imaginary part of energy, |ImE|, of these states and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 O. V. Gamayun , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

The low energy excitations of graphene can be described by a massless Dirac equation in two spacial dimensions. Curved graphene is proposed to be described by coupling the Dirac equation to the corresponding curved space. This covariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria A. H. Vozmediano , Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo

We theoretically investigate harmonic generation in graphene quantum dots under linearly polarized optical pulses, focusing on excitonic effects. Combining the tight-binding model and the single-particle density matrix approach, we derive a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Kainan Chang , Ying Song , Yuwei Shan , Jin Luo Cheng

Kinetics of vacancy defect in graphene drives structural modifications leading to disorder, multi-vacancy complex and edge reconstruction. Within the first-principles calculations, we study the dynamic Jahn-Teller distortion and diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Rohit Babar , Mukul Kabir

Defects in solid commonly limit mechanical performance of the material. However, recent measurements reported that the extraordinarily high strength of graphene is almost retained with the presence of grain boundaries. We clarify in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Zhigong Song , Jian Wu , Zhiping Xu

Quantum oscillations in graphene is discussed. The effect of interactions are addressed by Kohn's theorem regarding de Haas-van Alphen oscillations, which states that electron-electron interactions cannot affect the oscillation frequencies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-06 Pallab Goswami , Xun Jia , Sudip Chakravarty

We theoretically predict that the motion of a polar crystalline layer between two graphene planes exerts Coulomb drag on electrons in graphene, inducing a DC drag current. The physical mechanism underlying this drag arises from intervalley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 A. L. Chudnovskiy

We investigate the effect of an applied uniaxial strain on the ferromagnetic instability due to long- range Coulomb interaction between Dirac fermions in graphene. In case of undeformed graphene the ferromagnetic exchange instability occurs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto

The interaction between electrons in graphene under high magnetic fields drives the formation of a rich set of quantum Hall ferromagnetic phases (QHFM), with broken spin or valley symmetry. Visualizing atomic scale electronic wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaomeng Liu , Gelareh Farahi , Cheng-Li Chiu , Zlatko Papic , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani

We present a molecular modeling study analyzing nanometer-scale strain variations in graphene as a function of externally applied tensile strain. We consider two different mechanisms that could underlie nanometer-scale strain variations:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 G. J. Verbiest , C. Stampfer , S. E. Huber , M. Andersen , K. Reuter

Excited conduction electrons, conduction holes, and valence holes in monolayer electron-doped graphene exhibit unusual Coulomb decay rates. The deexcitation processes are studied using the screened exchange energy. They might utilize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Chih-Wei Chiu , Chiun-Yan Lin , Rong-Bin Chen

We present an accurate measurement and a quantitative analysis of electron-beam induced displacements of carbon atoms in single-layer graphene. We directly measure the atomic displacement ("knock-on") cross section by counting the lost…

The linear energy dispersion of graphene electrons leads to a strongly nonlinear electromagnetic response of this material. We develop a general quantum theory of the third-order nonlinear local dynamic conductivity of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 S. A. Mikhailov

Mechanical deformations of graphene induce a term in the Dirac Hamiltonian which is reminiscent of an electromagnetic vector potential. Strain gradients along particular lattice directions induce local pseudomagnetic fields and substantial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Eran Sela , Yakov Bloch , Felix von Oppen , Moshe Ben Shalom

We study magic angle graphene in the presence of both strain and particle-hole symmetry breaking due to non-local inter-layer tunneling. We perform a self-consistent Hartree-Fock study that incorporates these effects alongside realistic…

We provide a theory for electronic transitions induced by ultrashort electromagnetic pulses in two-dimensional artificial relativistic atoms which are created by a charged impurity in a gapped graphene monolayer. Using a non-perturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-20 Saparboy Rakhmanov , Reinhold Egger , Davron Matrasulov

Generation mechanism of energy gaps between conductance and valence bands is at the centre of the study of graphene material. Recently Chamon, Jackiw, et al. proposed a mechanism of using a Kekul\'{e} distortion background field $% \varphi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xin Liu , Ruibin Zhang