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Electrons moving in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, and they exhibit fascinating low-frequency electrical transport phenomena. Their dynamic response, however, is little known at frequencies above one terahertz (THz). Such…

We study heat transport in normal/superconducting graphene junctions. We find that while the thermal conductance displays the usual exponential dependence on temperature, reflecting the s-wave symmetry of the superconductor, it exhibits an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbo

In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Caglar Girit , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

In this paper, we present the solutions of the Dirac-Weyl equation for graphene under a constant magnetic field. The resulting spectrum is used to determine the partition function, a key quantity in the study of thermodynamic properties.…

We have investigated the absorption spectrum of multilayer graphene in high magnetic fields. The low energy part of the spectrum of electrons in graphene is well described by the relativistic Dirac equation with a linear dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Plochocka , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , M. L. Sadowski , G. Martinez , M. Potemski , M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

Carrier transport in gated 2D graphene monolayers is theoretically considered in the presence of scattering by random charged impurity centers with density $n_i$. Excellent quantitative agreement is obtained (for carrier density $n >…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-09 E. H. Hwang , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

Graphene has demonstrated great promise for future electronics technology as well as fundamental physics applications because of its linear energy-momentum dispersion relations which cross at the Dirac point. However, accessing the physics…

The Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity are two critical quantities to optimize simultaneously in designing thermoelectric materials, and they are determined by the dynamics of carrier scattering. We uncover a new regime where…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-17 Natalya S. Fedorova , Andrea Cepellotti , Boris Kozinsky

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

We investigated the transient photoconductivity of graphene at various gate-tuned carrier densities by optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy. We demonstrated that graphene exhibits semiconducting positive photoconductivity near zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , Y. C. Shin , J. Kong , N. Gedik

Thermoelectric phenomena in photoexcited graphene have been the topic of several theoretical and experimental studies because of their potential usefulness in optoelectronic applications. However, available theoretical descriptions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Andrea Tomadin , Marco Polini

We study the DC transport of finite graphene samples with random gap. Using Dirac fermions to describe the low-energy physics near the Dirac point, we employ a generalized Drude form for the conductivity. The latter is constant for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-14 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

We study quasiparticle dynamics in graphene exposed to a linearly-polarized electromagnetic wave of very large intensity. Low-energy transport in such system can be described by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 S. V. Syzranov , Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , F. Nori

The fate of the charge-neutral Dirac point in graphene in a high magnetic field $H$ has been investigated at low temperatures ($T\sim$ 0.3 K). In samples with small $V_0$ (the gate voltage needed to access the Dirac point), the resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-21 Joseph G. Checkelsky , Lu Li , N. P. Ong

Photon-assisted electron transport in ballistic graphene is analyzed using scattering theory. We show that the presence of an ac signal (applied to a gate electrode in a region of the system) has interesting consequences on electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Trauzettel , Ya. M. Blanter , A. F. Morpurgo

In two dimensions chaotic level-statistics is expected for massless Dirac fermions in the presence of disorder. For weakly disordered graphene flakes with zigzag edges the obtained level-spacing distribution in the Dirac region is neither…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-12 H. Amanatidis , I. Kleftogiannis , D. E. Katsanos , S. N. Evangelou

We investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the transport properties of vertical devices made of two twisted graphene layers, which partially overlap each other. We find that because of the different orientations of the two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Jerome Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

Electrons and holes in clean, charge-neutral graphene behave like a strongly coupled relativistic liquid. The thermo-electric transport properties of the interacting Dirac quasiparticles are rather special, being constrained by an emergent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Markus Mueller , Lars Fritz , Subir Sachdev , Joerg Schmalian