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There are two types of edge states in graphene with/without magnetic field. One is a quantum Hall edge state, which is topologically protected against small perturbation. The other is a chiral zero mode that is localized near the boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Y. Hatsugai

We investigate the fine structure of the edge states energy spectrum for zigzag and armchair ribbons of graphene in a strong magnetic field. At low energy, the spectra can be described by an effective Schrodinger Hamiltonian with a double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-05 Pierre Delplace , Gilles Montambaux

Dirac fermions interacting with a cylindrically symmetric quantum dot potential created in single and bilayer graphene are not confined but form quasi-bound states. The broadening of these quasi-bound states (i. e. the inverse of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

Flat electronic bands can accommodate a plethora of interaction driven quantum phases, since kinetic energy is quenched therein and electronic interactions therefore prevail. Twisted bilayer graphene, near so-called the "magic angles",…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

We analyze the energy spectrum of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and a unidirectionally periodic Zeeman field, focusing on the stability and location of Dirac points it may support. It is found that the Dirac points at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Luis Brey , A. R. Carvalho , H. A. Fertig

We consider plane junctions with graphene electrodes, which are formed by a single-level system ("molecule") placed between the edges of two single-layer graphene half planes. We calculate the edge Green functions of the electrodes and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Jan Bundesmann , Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter

We discuss the novel electronic properties of graphene under an external periodic scalar or vector potential, and the analytical and numerical methods used to investigate them. When graphene is subjected to a one-dimensional periodic scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 Cheol-Hwan Park , Liang Zheng Tan , Steven G. Louie

Dirac electrons in finite graphene samples with zigzag edges under high magnetic fields (in the regime of Landau-level formation) are investigated with regard to their bulk-type and edge-type character. We employ tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

In the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields, a graphene ribbon has chiral states running along sample edges and along boundaries between $p$-doped and $n$-doped regions. We here consider the scattering of edge states into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Luka Trifunovic , Piet W. Brouwer

Properties of the boundary of two conductors in a quantizing magnetic field are studied: with conventional Dirac charge carriers and so-called pseudospin-1 fermions, which are realized in graphene-like and Lieb lattices respectively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 I. V. Kozlov , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

We argue that spin and valley-polarized metallic phases recently observed in graphene bilayers and trilayers support chiral edge modes that allow spin waves to propagate ballistically along system boundaries without backscattering. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Zhiyu Dong , Olumakinde Ogunnaike , Leonid Levitov

We study the magnetic properties in the vicinity of a single carbon defect in a monolayer of graphene. We include the unbound $\sigma$ orbital and the vacancy induced bound $\pi$ state in an effective two-orbital single impurity model. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Daniel May , Po-Wei Lo , Kira Deltenre , Anika Henke , Jinhai Mao , Yuhang Jiang , Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei , Guang-Yu Guo , Frithjof B. Anders

We consider the low-energy electronic properties of graphene cones in the presence of a global Fries-Kekul\'e Peierls distortion. Such cones occur in fullerenes as the geometric response to the disclination associated with pentagon rings.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-15 Abhishek Roy , Michael Stone

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

We have investigated the Fock-Darwin states of the massless chiral fermions confined in a graphitic parabolic quantum dot. In the light of the Klein tunneling, we have analyzed the condition for confinement of the Dirac fermions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hong-Yi Chen , Vadim Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Using a nearest-neighbor tight-binding model we investigate quantum effects of plasmons on few-nanometer wide graphene nanoribbons, both for zigzag and armchair edge terminations. With insight from the Dirac description we find an emerging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Kåre Obel Wedel , N. Asger Mortensen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Martijn Wubs

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

Quantum materials that host a flat band, such as pseudospin-1 lattices and magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, can exhibit drastically new physical phenomena including unconventional superconductivity, orbital ferromagnetism, and Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hong-Ya Xu , Ying-Cheng Lai

The electrons found in Dirac materials are notorious for being difficult to manipulate due to the Klein phenomenon and absence of backscattering. Here we investigate how spatial modulations of the Fermi velocity in two-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi