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The electron scattering by the short-range defects in the monolayer graphene is considered in the framework of the flatland model. We analyze the effect of this scattering on the electronic resistivity of the monolayer graphene (direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 N Firsova , S Ktitorov

We discuss elementary topological defects in soft magnetic nanoparticles in the thin-film geometry. In the limit dominated by magnetostatic forces the low-energy defects are vortices (winding number n = +1), cross ties (n = -1), and edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. -W. Chern , H. Youk , O. Tchernyshyov

The quantum Hall effect is the seminal example of topological protection, as charge carriers are transmitted through one-dimensional edge channels where backscattering is prohibited. Graphene has made its marks as an exceptional platform to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Nicolas Moreau , Boris Brun , Sowmya Somanchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer , Benoit Hackens

The experimental realization of twisted bilayer graphene strongly pushed the inspection of bilayer systems. In this context, it was recently shown that a two layer Haldane model with a thirty degree rotation angle between the layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti

Several experiments have recently found room-temperature ferromagnetism in graphite-like carbon based materials. This paper offers a model explaining such ferromagnetism by using an asymmetric nano-graphene. Our first typical model is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 Norio Ota , Narjes Gorjizadeh , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Atomic-scale engineering typically involves bottom-up approaches, leveraging parameters such as temperature, partial pressures, and chemical affinity to promote spontaneous arrangement of atoms. These parameters are applied globally,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-13 Ondrej Dyck , Sinchul Yeom , Andrew R. Lupini , Jacob L. Swett , Dale Hensley , Mina Yoon , Stephen Jesse

We present numerical studies of conduction in graphene nanoribbons with reconstructed edges based on the standard tight-binding model of the graphene and the extended Huckel model of the reconstructed defects. We performed atomic geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 S. Ihnatsenka , G. Kirczenow

Transport measurements have revealed several exotic electronic properties of graphene. The possibility to influence the electronic structure and hence control the conductivity by adsorption or doping with adatoms is crucial in view of…

In the framework of the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems, it is demonstrated that irradiation of graphene by a circularly polarized electromagnetic field induces an attractive area in the core of repulsive potentials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 O. V. Kibis , M. V. Boev , I. V. Iorsh , V. M. Kovalev

We report on the possibility of valley number fractionalization in graphene with a topological defect that is accounted for in Dirac equation by a pseudomagnetic field. The valley number fractionalization is attributable to an imbalance on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Angel E. Obispo , Marcelo Hott

Self-doping in graphene has been studied by examining single-layer epitaxially grown graphene samples with differing characteristic lateral terrace widths. Low energy electron microscopy was used to gain real-space information about the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-15 D. A. Siegel , S. Y. Zhou , F. El Gabaly , A. V. Fedorov , A. K. Schmid , A. Lanzara

In this paper, we propose a combined modeling of molecular mechanics (MM) and the tight-binding (TB) approach, which enables us to study the effect of factors such as external local forces, constraints, and vacancy defects on electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahnoosh Rostami , Isa Ahmadi , Farhad Khoeini

Non-reciprocity and asymmetric transmission in optical and plasmonic systems is a key element for engineering the one-way propagation structures for light manipulation. Here we investigate topological nanostructures covered with…

An intense laser field in the high-frequency regime drives carriers in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) out of equilibrium and creates topologically-protected edge states. Using Floquet theory on driven GNRs, we calculate the time evolution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Matteo Puviani , Franca Manghi , Andrea Bertoni

Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Bilayer graphene encapsulated in tungsten diselenide can host a weak topological phase with pairs of helical edge states. The electrical tunability of this phase makes it an ideal platform to investigate unique topological effects at zero…

In this review we highlight recent theoretical and experimental work on sublattice asymmetric doping of impurities in graphene, with a focus on substitutional Nitrogen dopants. It is well known that one current limitation of graphene in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira

We introduce effective field theories for the electronic properties of graphene in terms of relativistic fermions propagating in 2+1 dimensions, and outline how strong inter-electron interactions may be modelled by numerical simulation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Simon Hands , Wes Armour , Costas Strouthos

The electronic structure, specific heat, and thermal conductivity of silicon embedded in a monolayer graphene nanosheet are studied using Density Functional Theory. Two different shapes of the substitutional Si doping in the graphene are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Hunar Omar Rashid , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Vidar Gudmundsson

A model is proposed to study the electronic structure of slightly curved graphene sheets with an arbitrary number of pentagon-heptagon pairs and Stone-Wales defects based on a cosmological analogy. The disorder induced by curvature produces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , Maria A. H. Vozmediano