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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

The electrostatic confinement of massless charge carriers is hampered by Klein tunneling. Circumventing this problem in graphene mainly relies on carving out nanostructures or applying electric displacement fields to open a band gap in…

By analogy of optical waveguides, we investigate the guided modes in graphene waveguides, which is made of symmetric quantum well. The unique properties of the graphene waveguide are discussed based on the two different dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Fan-Ming Zhang , Ying He , Xi Chen

The fourfold spin-valley degenerate degrees of freedom in bulk graphene can support rich physics and novel applications associated with multicomponent quantum Hall effects and linear conductance filtering. In this work, we study how to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Yu Song , Lei Xie , Zhi-Gui Shi , Shun Li , Jian Zhang

Trapping electrons in quantum dots and controlling their collective quantum states is crucial for converting semiconductor structures into bits of quantum information processing. Here, we study single- and two-particle states in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Angelika Knothe , Vladimir Fal'ko

We theoretically study the coherent nonlinear response of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum wells under the effect of an electromagnetic radiation close to resonance with an intersubband transition. Our approach is based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 R. Cominotti , H. A. M. Leymann , J. Nespolo , J. -M. Manceau , M. Jeannin , R. Colombelli , I. Carusotto

Graphene, a single free-standing sheet of graphite with honeycomb lattice structure, is a semimetal with carriers that have linear dispersion. A consequence of this dispersion is the absence of Wigner crystallization in graphene, since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. -H. Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

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

Theoretical progress in graphene physics has largely relied on the application of a simple nearest-neighbor tight-binding model capable of predicting many of the electronic properties of this material. However, important features that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Z. M. Abd El-Fattah , M. A. Kher-Elden , I. Piquero-Zulaica , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , J. E. Ortega

Scientists are always yearning for new and exciting ways to unlock graphene's true potential. However, recent reports suggest this two-dimensional material may harbor some unique properties, making it a viable candidate for use in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-04 F. V. Kusmartsev , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , K. C. Yung

We report on transport measurements of dual-gated, single-layer graphene devices in the quantum Hall regime, allowing for independent control of the filling factors in adjoining regions. Progress in device quality allows us to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 F. Amet , J. R. Wiliams , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We propose realizing the quantum anomalous Hall effect by proximity coupling graphene to an antiferromagnetic insulator that provides both broken time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling. We illustrate our idea by performing ab initio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Zhenhua Qiao , Wei Ren , Hua Chen , L. Bellaiche , Zhenyu Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

We demonstrate the splitting of a low-energy electron beam by means of a microwave pseudopotential formed above a planar chip substrate. Beam splitting arises from smoothly transforming the transverse guiding potential for an electron beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jakob Hammer , Sebastian Thomas , Philipp Weber , Peter Hommelhoff

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are promising components in future nanoelectronics due to the large mobility of graphene electrons and their tunable electronic band gap in combination with recent experimental developments of on-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Pedro Brandimarte , Mads Engelund , Nick Papior , Aran Garcia-Lekue , Thomas Frederiksen , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

By applying the infinite-mass boundary condition, we analytically calculate the confined states and the corresponding wave functions of AA-stacked bilayer graphene quantum {dots} in the presence of an uniform magnetic field $B$. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-29 Abdelhadi Belouad , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal

We use phase-resolved transient grating spectroscopy to measure the drift and diffusion of electron-hole density waves in a semiconductor quantum well. The unique aspects of this optical probe allow us to determine the frictional force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 Luyi Yang , J. D. Koralek , J. Orenstein , D. R. Tibbetts , J. L. Reno , M. P. Lilly

Understanding how the electron spin is coupled to orbital degrees of freedom, such as a valley degree of freedom in solid-state systems is central to applications in spin-based electronics and quantum computation. Recent developments in the…

The electronic band structure of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and transverse electric field is investigated from first principles using the linearized augmented plane-wave method. The spin-orbit coupling opens a gap at…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Gmitra , S. Konschuh , C. Ertler , C. Ambrosch-Draxl , J. Fabian

We study the energy spectrum and electronic properties of graphene in a periodic magnetic field of zero average with a symmetry of triangular lattice. The periodic field leads to formation of a set of minibands separated by gaps, which can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Taillefumier , V. K. Dugaev , B. Canals , C. Lacroix , P. Bruno

: n-type Ge/SiGe asymmetric-coupled quantum wells represent the building block of a variety of nanoscale quantum devices, including recently proposed designs for a silicon-based THz quantum cascade laser. In this paper, we combine…