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We show that a system of Josephson junctions coupled via low-resistance tunneling contacts to graphene substrate(s) may effectively operate as a current switching device. The effect is based on the dissipation-driven…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman M. Lutchyn , Victor Galitski , Gil Refael , S. Das Sarma

We have investigated the transmission in monolayer graphene barrier at nonzero angle of incidence. Taking the influence of parallel wave vector into account, the transmission as the function of incidence energy has a gap due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-03 Xi Chen , Jia-Wei Tao

We calculate the rates of phonon-assisted hyperfine spin flips during electron and hole tunneling between quantum dots in a self-assembled quantum dot molecule. We show that the hyperfine process dominates over the spin-orbit-induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Paweł Karwat , Krzysztof Gawarecki , Paweł Machnikowski

High quality epitaxial graphene films can be applied as templates for tailoring graphene-substrate interfaces that allow for precise control of the charge carrier behavior in graphene through doping and many-body effects. By combining…

Guided by the analogy to Mie scattering of light on small particles we show that the propagation of a Dirac-electron wave in graphene can be manipulated by a circular gated region acting as a quatum dot. Large dots enable electron lensing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. L. Heinisch , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

Optical lattices have proven to be powerful systems for quantum simulations of solid state physics effects. Here we report a proof-of-principle experiment simulating effects predicted by relativistic wave equations with ultracold atoms in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Tobias Salger , Sebastian Kling , Christopher Grossert , Martin Weitz

Quantum spin Hall insulator/metal interfaces are formed in graphene ribbons with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling by selectively doping two regions creating a potential step. For a clean graphene ribbon, the transmission of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Elsa Prada , Georgo Metalidis

We calculate the transmission coefficient for a particle crossing a potential barrier in monolayer graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in bilayer graphene. We show that in both the cases one can go from Klein tunneling regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 L. Dell'Anna , P. Majari , M. R. Setare

We revisit the nonlinear superconducting junction dynamics in order to provide evidence that the time-dependent current density in the junction is related to an oscillating charge and mass density in addition to a variable velocity. As a…

General Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Victor Atanasov , Avadh Saxena

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge

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 propose the theory of transport in a gate-tunable graphene p-n junction, in which the gradient of the carrier density is controlled by the gate voltage. Depending on this gradient and on the density of charged impurities, the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. M. Fogler , L. I. Glazman , D. S. Novikov , B. I. Shklovskii

Observations of electron-hole asymmetry in transport through graphene devices at high magnetic field challenge prevalent models of the graphene quantum Hall effect. Here, we study this asymmetry both in conventional magnetotransport and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Nicolas Moreau , Boris Brun , Sowmya Somanchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer , Benoît Hackens

The phase space for graphene's minimum conductivity $\sigma_\mathrm{min}$ is mapped out using Landauer theory modified for scattering using Fermi's Golden Rule, as well as the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulation with a Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Redwan N. Sajjad , Frank Tseng , K. M. Masum Habib , Avik W. Ghosh

Klein tunneling is an old topic in relativistic quantum physics, and has been observed recently in graphene where massless particles reside. Here, we propose a new heterostructure platform for Klein tunneling to occur, which consists of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Jiajia Huang , Luyang Wang , Dao-Xin Yao

We analyze an interplay between the proximity effect and quantum interference of electrons in hybrid structures superconductor-normal metal-superconductor which contain several insulating barriers. We demonstrate that the dc Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We develop an analytical mode-matching technique for the tight-binding model to describe electron transport across graphene P-N junctions. This method shares the simplicity of the conventional mode-matching technique for the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

The influence of a rectangular potential barrier on the quantum transport of fermions in silicene is explored. Specifically, analytical solutions are presented to derive transmission and reflection probabilities together with conductance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Sanae Zriouel , Ahmed Jellal

Graphene quantum dots provide promising platforms for hosting spin, valley, or spin-valley qubits. Taking advantage of the electrically generated band gap and the ambipolar nature, high-quality quantum dots can be defined in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Fang-Ming Jing , Guo-Quan Qin , Zhuo-Zhi Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Song , Guo-Ping Guo

Graphene matter in a strong magnetic field, realizing one-dimensional quantum Hall channels, provides a unique platform for studying electron interference. Here, using the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism along with the tight-binding model, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 M. Mirzakhani , N. Myoung , F. M. Peeters , H. C. Park