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The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

We study the effect of weak disorder on the delocalization properties of gapped graphene superlattice (SL) formed by periodically located rectangular potential barriers. We consider two types of the SLs: the SLs with uniform and nonuniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 E. S. Azarova , G. M. Maksimova

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

Within the framework of tight binding models, aperiodic systems are mapped to a renormalized lattice with a dimer defect. In models exhibiting metal-insulator transition, the dimer acts like a resonant cavity and explains the existence of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ignacio Gomez , Indubala I. Satija

In non-hermitian systems, the particular position at which two eigenstates coalesce under a variation of a parameter in the complex plane is called an exceptional point. A non-perturbative theory is proposed which describes the evolution of…

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

We investigate localization properties of electron eigenstates in one-dimensional (1d) systems with long-range correlated diagonal disorder. Numerical studies on the localization length $\xi$ of eigenstates demonstrate the existence of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Shima , T. Nomura , T. Nakayama

We study the spectral statistics of interacting spinless fermions in a two-dimensional disordered lattice. Within a full quantum treatment for small few-particle-systems, we compute the low-energy many-body states numerically. While at weak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriel Vasseur , Dietmar Weinmann

We report measurements of disordered graphene probed by both a high electric field and a high magnetic field. By apply a high source-drain voltage Vsd, we are able to study the current-voltage relation I-Vsd of our device. With increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Shun-Tsung Lo , Chiashain Chuang , R. K. Puddy , T. -M. Chen , C. G. Smith , C. -T. Liang

We study the Dicke phase transition in a disordered system of emitters coupled to the plasmonic modes of a graphene monolayer. This system has unique properties associated with the tunable, dissipative and broadband characters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Klaus Mølmer

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear disordered Stark model: $${\bf i}\partial_tu_n+\delta(u_{n+1}+u_{n-1})+nu_n+v_nu_n+\epsilon |u_n|^{2}u_n=0,\quad n\in\mathbb{Z}.$$ By employing the diagonalization of the associated linear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Shengqing Hu , Yingte Sun

By using the self-consistent Born approximation, we investigate disorder effect induced by the short-range impurities on the band-gap in two-dimensional Dirac systems with the higher order terms in momentum. Starting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Sergey S. Krishtopenko , Mauro Antezza , Frédéric Teppe

Magnetic proximity effects in Co/hBN/graphene heterostructures are systematically analyzed via first-principles calculations, demonstrating a pronounced localized spatial variation of the induced spin polarization of graphene's Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Klaus Zollner , Lukas Cvitkovich , Riccardo Silvioli , Andreas V. Stier , Jaroslav Fabian

We review the theoretical and experimental results connected with the electron states in two-dimensional Dirac systems paying a special attention to the atomic collapse in graphene. Two-electron bound states of a Coulomb impurity are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-15 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

Localization of waves by disorder is a fundamental physical problem encompassing a diverse spectrum of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies in the context of metal-insulator transitions, the quantum Hall effect, light propagation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-07 Sergej Flach

Topological materials may exhibit Hall-like currents flowing transversely to the applied electric field even in the absence of a magnetic field. In graphene superlattices, which have broken inversion symmetry, topological currents…

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

The effective theory for bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to parallel/in-plane magnetic fields, is derived. With a sizable magnetic field the trigonal warping becomes irrelevant, and one ends up with two Dirac points in the vicinity of each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Bitan Roy , Kun Yang

Localization due to the presence of disorder has proven crucial for our current understanding of relaxation in isolated quantum systems. The many-body localized phase constitutes a robust alternative to the thermalization of complex…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Irene Papaefstathiou , Adam Smith , Johannes Knolle