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We study the transition from ballistic to diffusive and localized transport in graphene nanoribbons in the presence of binary disorder, which can be generated by chemical adsorbates or substitutional doping. We show that the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 Petra Dietl , Georgo Metalidis , Dmitri Golubev , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Henning Schomerus , Gerd Schön

We investigate the localization behavior of electrons in a random lattice which is constructed from a quasi-one-dimensional chain with large coordinate number $Z$ and rewired bonds, resembling the small-world network proposed recently but…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Chen-Ping Zhu , Shi-Jie Xiong

A transfer matrix approach is used to study the electronic transport in graphene superlattices with long-range correlated barrier spacements. By considering the low-energy electronic excitations as massless Dirac fermions, we compute by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Jonas R. F. Lima , Ícaro S. F. Bezerra , Marcelo L. Lyra

System of Dirac fermions with random-varying mass is studied in detail. We reformulate the system by transfer-matrix formalism. Eigenvalues and wave functions are obtained numerically for various configurations of random telegraphic mass…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Koujin Takeda , Toyohiro Tsurumaru , Ikuo Ichinose , Masaomi Kimura

Localization-delocalization transition in a discrete Anderson nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with disorder is shown to be a critical phenomenon $-$ similar to a percolation transition on a disordered lattice, with the nonlinearity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-03-20 A. V. Milovanov , A. Iomin

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

Electrons on a square lattice with half a flux quantum per plaquette are considered. An effective description for the current loops is given by a two-dimensional Dirac theory with random mass. It is shown that the conductivity and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Ziegler

Localization due to disorder has been one of the most intriguing theoretical concepts evolved in condensed matter. Here, we expand the theory of localization by considering two types of disorder at the same time, namely the original…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-03 Mouyang Cheng , Haoxiang Chen , Ji Chen

Using the supersymmetry technique, we study the localization-delocalization transition in quasi-one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems with a direction. In contrast to chains, our model captures the diffusive character of carriers' motion at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Kolesnikov , K. B. Efetov

We use the regularized kernel polynomial method (RKPM) to numerically study the effect disorder on a single layer of graphene. This accurate numerical method enables us to study very large lattices with millions of sites, and hence is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-31 Mohsen Amini , S. A. Jafari , F. Shahbazi

We study the hopping transport of a quantum particle through randomly diluted percolation clusters in two dimensions realized both on the square and triangular lattices. We investigate the nature of localization of the particle by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-09-27 Md Fhokrul Islam , Hisao Nakanishi

Disorder plays a crucial role in many systems particularly in solid state physics. However, the disorder in a particular system can usually not be chosen or controlled. We show that the unique control available for ultracold atomic gases…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Schulte , S. Drenkelforth , J. Kruse , R. Tiemeyer , K. Sacha , J. Zakrzewski , M. Lewenstein , W. Ertmer , J. J. Arlt

We describe the transition from a ferromagnetic phase, to a disordered para- magnetic phase, which occurs in one-dimensional Kondo lattice models with partial conduction band filling. The transition is the quantum order-disorder transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Graeme Honner , Miklos Gulacsi

We investigate the effect of an applied uniaxial strain on the ferromagnetic instability due to long- range Coulomb interaction between Dirac fermions in graphene. In case of undeformed graphene the ferromagnetic exchange instability occurs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto

Anderson localization transitions are usually referred to as quantum phase transitions from delocalized states to localized states in disordered systems. Here we report an unconventional ``Anderson localization transition'' in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-12 C. Wang , Wenxue He , Hechen Ren , X. R. Wang

Random defects do not constitute the unique source of electron localization in two dimensions. Lattice quasidisorder generated from two inplane superimposed rotated, main and secondary, square lattices, namely monolayers where moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Christian Madroñero , Gustavo Alexis Dominguez Castro , Rosario Paredes

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered magnetic phase characterized by spin-split bands without net magnetization, has emerged as promising platform for novel physics and potential applications. However, its stability against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chang-An Li , Bo Fu , Huaiming Guo , Björn Trauzettel , Song-Bo Zhang

The application of a perpendicular electric field can drive silicene into a gapless state, characterized by two nearly fully spin-polarized Dirac cones owing to both relatively large spin-orbital interactions and inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Yan-Yang Zhang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Kai Chang , X. -T. An , G. -P. Zhang , X. -C. Xie , Shu-Shen Li

We calculate the average single particle density of states in graphene with disorder due to impurity potentials. For unscreened short-ranged impurities, we use the non-self-consistent and self-consistent Born and $T$-matrix approximations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-18 Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Using the tight-binding model, we investigate the influence of vacancy disorder on electrical transport in graphene Hall bars in the presence of quantizing magnetic fields. Disorder, induced by a random distribution of monovacancies, breaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 M. D. Petrović , F. M. Peeters