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A class of graphene wound into three-dimensional periodic curved surfaces ("graphitic zeolites") is proposed and their electronic structures are obtained to explore how the massless Dirac fermions behave on periodic surfaces. We find in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

In this paper, we study the massive Dirac equation with the presence of the Morse potential in polar coordinate. The Dirac Hamiltonian is written as two second-order differential equations in terms of two spinor wavefunctions. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Z. Zali , Alireza Amani , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

An application of quantum size carbon structures--graphenes as electrodes of supercapacitors is studied. A fundamental limit of energy and power density arising from quantum nature of objects due to singularity in graphene density of states…

We consider quantum rings realized in materials where the dynamics of charge carriers mimics that of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electrons. A general theoretical description of the ring-subband structure is developed that applies to a range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 L. Gioia , U. Zülicke , M. Governale , R. Winkler

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath

The present study explores the edge states in a finite-width graphene ribbon and a semi-infinite geometry subject to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field, applied perpendicular to a zigzag edge. To accomplish this,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 A. A. Herasymchuk , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

We find a systematic reappearance of massive Dirac features at the edges of consecutive minibands formed at magnetic fields B_{p/q}= p\phi_0/(qS) providing rational magnetic flux through a unit cell of the moire superlattice created by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xi Chen , J. R. Wallbank , A. A. Patel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , E. McCann , V. I. Fal'ko

Massless Dirac particles on the helicoid are theoretically investigated. With its possible application being helical graphene, we explore how the peculiarities of Dirac particles appear on the curved, screw-symmetric surface. The zweibein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Masataka Watanabe , Hisato Komatsu , Naoto Tsuji , Hideo Aoki

In a recent letter, Ahn and Moon, et al. (2018) studied the quantum states of Dirac electrons in a two-dimensional structure realized by epitaxial growth of twisted bilayer graphene rotated exactly 30 degrees. They claim this structure to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-28 Tongxu Yu , Longguang Liao

We study the electronic states of narrow graphene ribbons (``nanoribbons'') with zigzag and armchair edges. The finite width of these systems breaks the spectrum into an infinite set of bands, which we demonstrate can be quantitatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

The density of states and differential entropy per particle are analyzed for Dirac-like electrons in graphene subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field. For comparison, the derived density of states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Andrii A. Chaika , Yelizaveta Kulynych , D. O. Oriekhov , Sergei G. Sharapov

We present a phenomenological theory of the low energy moir\'e minibands of Dirac electrons in graphene placed on an almost commensurate hexagonal underlay with a unit cell pproximately three times larger than that of graphene.A slight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. R. Wallbank , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

Recent advances in the creation and modulation of graphene-like systems are introducing a science of "designer Dirac materials". In its original definition, artificial graphene is a man-made nanostructure that consists of identical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-11 E. Rasanen , C. A. Rozzi , S. Pittalis , G. Vignale

We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in ballistic graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10 to 40 nm. We determine wavefunctions and energy level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Libisch , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer

We investigate from first principles the electronic and optical properties of edge-modulated armchair graphene nanoribbons, including both quasi-particle corrections and excitonic effects. Exploiting the oscillating behavior of the ribbon…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-19 Deborah Prezzi , Daniele Varsano , Alice Ruini , Elisa Molinari

The electronic properties of graphene may be changed from semimetallic to semiconducting by introducing perforations (antidots) in a periodic pattern. The properties of such graphene antidot lattices (GALs) have previously been studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 S. J. Brun , M. R. Thomsen , T. G. Pedersen

We study the electronic structure of two Dirac electron gazes coupled by a periodic Hamiltonian such as it appears in rotated graphene bilayers. Ab initio and tight-binding approaches are combined and show that the spatially periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 Guy Trambly de Laissardière , Didier Mayou , Laurence Magaud

We theoretically investigate electron transport through corrugated graphene ribbons and show how the ribbon curvature leads to an electronic superlattice with a period set by the corrugation wave length. Transport through the ribbon depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isacsson , L. M. Jonsson , J. M. Kinaret , M. Jonson

We theoretically analyse the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in circular quantum dot arrays, impressed on contacted graphene nanoribbons by top gates. Utilising exact numerical techniques, we compute the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Holger Fehske , Georg Hager , Andreas Pieper