English
Related papers

Related papers: Phonon assisted dynamical Coulomb blockade in a th…

200 papers

We numerically analyze the interaction of small-amplitude phonon waves with standing gap discrete breather (DB) in strained graphene. To make the system support gap DB, strain is applied to create a gap in the phonon spectrum. We only focus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Iman Evazzade , Mahmood Rezaee Roknabadi , Mohammad Behdani , Fatemeh Moosavi , Daxing Xoing , Kun Zhou , Sergey V. Dmitriev

The ability to perform first-principles calculations of electronic and vibrational properties of two-dimensional heterostructures in a field-effect setup is crucial for the understanding and design of next-generation devices. We present…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 Thibault Sohier , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

Phonon dispersions generically display non-analytic points, known as Kohn anomalies, due to electron-phonon interactions. We analyze this phenomenon for a zone boundary phonon in undoped graphene. When electron-electron interactions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-22 Fernando de Juan , Herbert A. Fertig

We report the dispersion measurements, using angle-resolved reflection electron-energy-loss-spectroscopy (AREELS), on two-dimensional (2D) plasmons in single and multilayer graphene which couple strongly to surface optical phonon (FK…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 Yu Liu , Roy F. Willis

In this work we carry out a theoretical study of the phonon-induced resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), in which two Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene devices are rotated relative to each other by a small angle $\theta$. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

We present a theory of the phonon-assisted nonlinear dc transport of 2D electrons in high Landau levels. The nonlinear dissipative resistivity displays quantum magneto-oscillations governed by two parameters which are proportional to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 I. A. Dmitriev , R. Gellmann , M. G. Vavilov

We present transport measurements on a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. The device consists of an etched single-layer graphene flake with two narrow constrictions separating a 140 nm diameter island…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 J. Guettinger , C. Stampfer , T. Frey , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We investigate the effect of strain and isotopic disorder on thermal transport in suspended graphene by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the thermal conductivity of unstrained graphene, calculated from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-08 Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Davide Donadio

A Fano-like phonon resonance is observed in few-layer (~3) graphene at room temperature using infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. This Fano resonance is the manifestation of a strong electron-phonon interaction between the discrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Zhihong Liu , Xiaoxiang Lu , Peng Peng , Wei Wu , Steven Pei , Qingkai Yu , Jiming Bao

We show that Coulomb drag in ultra-clean graphene double layers can be used for controlling the on/off ratio for current flow by tunning the external gate voltage. Hence, although graphene remains semi-metallic, the double layer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto

The measured frequencies and intensities of different first- and second- order Raman peaks of suspended graphene are used to show that optical phonons and different acoustic phonon polarizations are driven out of local equilibrium inside a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-22 Sean Sullivan , Ajit Vallabhaneni , Iskandar Kholmanov , Xiulin Ruan , Jayathi Murthy , Li Shi

We study the effect of Coulomb drag between two closely positioned graphene monolayers. In the limit of weak electron-electron interaction and small inter-layer spacing ($\mu_{1(2)}, T\ll v/d$) the drag is described by a universal function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 B. N. Narozhny , M. Titov , I. V. Gornyi , P. M. Ostrovsky

We present Coulomb blockade measurements in a graphene double dot system. The coupling of the dots to the leads and between the dots can be tuned by graphene in-plane gates. The coupling is a non-monotonic function of the gate voltage.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Molitor , S. Dröscher , J. Güttinger , A. Jacobsen , C. Stampfer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We observed the recently predicted quantum suppression of dynamical Coulomb blockade on short coherent conductors by measuring the conductance of a quantum point contact embedded in a tunable on-chip circuit. Taking advantage of the circuit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 C. Altimiras , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly , F. Pierre

A discovery of the unusual thermal properties of graphene stimulated experimental, theoretical and computational research directed at understanding phonon transport and thermal conduction in two-dimensional material systems. We provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Interactions among charge carriers in graphene can lead to the spontaneous breaking of multiple degeneracies. When increasing the number of graphene layers following rhombohedral stacking, the dominant role of Coulomb interactions becomes…

Electronic transport in diatomic molecules (two-level systems) connected to metallic contacts is analyzed in the presence of competing electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. We show that phonon emission and absorption processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 E. Vernek , E. V. Anda , S. E. Ulloa , N. Sandler

We study the Coulomb drag between two single graphene sheets in intrinsic and extrinsic graphene systems with no interlayer tunneling. The general expression for the nonlinear susceptibility appropriate for single-layer graphene systems is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wang-Kong Tse , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma

We study the thermoelectrical transports for an interacting dot attached to two graphene electrodes. Graphene band structure shows a pseudogap density of states that affects strongly the transport properties. In this work, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Jose Ramon Isern-Lozano , Ioan Grosu , Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim , Mircea Crisan

The design of graphene-based composite with high thermal conductivity requires a comprehensive understanding of phonon coupling in graphene. We extended the two-temperature model to coupled groups of phonon. The study give new physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Meng An , Qichen Song , Xiaoxiang Yu , Han Meng , Dengke Ma , Ruiyang Li , Zelin Jin , Baoling Huang , Nuo Yang