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We study the Quantum Electrodynamics of 2D and 3D Dirac semimetals by means of a self-consistent resolution of the Schwinger-Dyson equations, aiming to obtain the respective phase diagrams in terms of the relative strength of the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 J. Gonzalez

Phase coherence of charge carriers leads to electron-wave interference in ballistic mesoscopic conductors. In graphene, such Fabry-P\'erot-like interference has been observed, but a detailed analysis has been complicated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Mika Oksanen , Andreas Uppstu , Antti Laitinen , Daniel J. Cox , Monica Craciun , Saverio Russo , Ari Harju , Pertti Hakonen

We study the energy of quasi-particles in graphene within the Hartree-Fock approximation. The quasi-particles are confined via an inhomogeneous magnetic field and interact via the Coulomb potential. We show that the associated functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-07 R. Egger , A. De Martino , H. Siedentop , E. Stockmeyer

Dirac energy-dispersions are responsible of the extraordinary transport properties of graphene. This motivated the quest for engineering such energy dispersions also in photonics, where they have been predicted to lead to many exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Erik P. Navarro-Barón , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Alejandro González-Tudela

A connection is established between the continuum limit of the low-energy tight-binding description of graphene immersed in an in-plane magnetic field and the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Quantum Chromodynamics. A combination of mass gaps that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Ana Julia Mizher , Saul Hernandez-Ortiz , Alfredo Raya , Cristian Villavicencio

We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

We discuss various scattering mechanisms for Dirac fermions in single-layer graphene. It is shown that scattering on a short-range potential (due to, for example, neutral impurities) is mostly irrelevant for electronic quality of graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-06 M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

Originating from relativistic quantum field theory, Dirac fermions have been recently applied to study various peculiar phenomena in condensed matter physics, including the novel quantum Hall effect in graphene, magnetic field driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-04-10 S. Y. Zhou , G. -H. Gweon , J. Graf , A. V. Fedorov , C. D. Spataru , R. D. Diehl , Y. Kopelevich , D. -H. Lee , Steven G. Louie , A. Lanzara

An exact mapping of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for a graphene's nanoribbon under any armchair uniaxial strain into an effective one-dimensional system is presented. As an application, for a periodic modulation we have found a gap opening…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

We consider massless Dirac fermions in a graphene monolayer subject to both a perpendicular magnetic field $B$ and a proximity-induced pairing gap $\Delta$. When the chemical potential is at the Dirac point, our exact solution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-30 L. Cohnitz , A. De Martino , W. Häusler , R. Egger

Multi-point probability measures along with the dielectric function of Dirac Fermions in mono-layer graphene containing particle-particle and white-noise (out-plane) disorder interactions on an equal footing in the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-06 M. N. Najafi

Gap opening at the Dirac point of the single-layer graphene with periodic scalar and vector potentials has been theoretically investigated under the continuum model. The symmetry analysis indicates that the two-fold degeneracy at the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xin Lin , Hailong Wang , Hui Pan , Huaizhe Xu

Generation of high harmonics in a monolayer graphene initiated by strong coherent radiation field, taking into account electron-electron Coulomb interaction is investigated. A microscopic theory describing the nonlinear optical response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 H. K. Avetissian , G. F. Mkrtchian

Advances in infrared nanoscopy have enabled access to the finite momentum optical conductivity $\sigma(\vec{q},\omega)$. The finite momentum optical conductivity in graphene has a peak at the Dirac fermion quasiparticle energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 Phillip E. C. Ashby , J. P. Carbotte

We study the problem of the electron excitation spectrum in the presence of point-like and regularized Coulomb impurities in gapped graphene. To this end, we use the Dirac model and in the point-like case theory of self-adjoint extensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. I. Breev , R. Ferreira , D. M. Gitman , B. L. Voronov

The wavefunction of massless Dirac fermions is a two-component spinor. In graphene, a one-atom-thick film showing two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations, the two-component representation reflects the amplitude of the electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-22 Wen-Xiao Wang , Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Tuocheng Cai , Si-Yu Li , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Xiaosong Wu , Lin He

The layered graphene systems exhibit the rich and unique excitation spectra arising from the electron-electron Coulomb interactions. The generalized tight-binding model is developed to cover the planar/buckled/cylindrical structures,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Chiun-Yan Lin , Jhao-Ying Wu , Chih-Wei Chiu , Ming-Fa Lin

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

On the basis of self-consistent Born approximation, we solve the Bethe-Salpeter matrix equations for Cooperon propagator of the Dirac fermions in graphene under the charged impurity scatterings and a weak external magnetic field. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-23 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The long standing controversy concerning the effect of electron - electron interaction on the electrical conductivity of an ideal graphene sheet is settled. Performing the calculation directly in the tight binding approach without the usual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 B. Rosenstein , M. Lewkowicz , T. Maniv