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We propose a graphene-based model for realizing a new type of gapless condensate by pairing of electron-like (n) carriers of a Dirac cone conduction band with hole-like (p) carriers of a Dirac valance band. Ferromagnetic superconductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mir Vahid Hosseini , Malek Zareyan

The electronic bound states and resonances in the vicinity of the Dirac point energy due to the adsorption of calcium dimers on a suspended graphene monolayer are explored theoretically using density functional theory (DFT) and an improved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alireza Saffarzadeh , George Kirczenow

Graphene is a rapidly rising star on the horizon of materials science and condensed matter physics. This strictly two-dimensional material exhibits exceptionally high crystal and electronic quality and, despite its short history, has…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Geim , K. S. Novoselov

Employing the low-energy effective theory alongside a combination of analytical and numerical techniques, we explore the Landau level collapse phenomenon, uncovering previously undisclosed features. We consider both finite-width graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. A. Herasymchuk , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

In this paper, we numerically study a Coulomb impurity problem for interacting Dirac fermions restricted in disordered graphene quantum dots. In the presence of randomly distributed lattice defects and spatial potential fluctuations, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Mustafa Polat , A. D. Güçlü

Motivated by the conduction properties of graphene discovered and studied in the last decades, we consider the quantum dynamics of a massless, charged, spin 1/2 relativistic particle in three dimensional space-time, in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Ivan Morales , Bruno Neves , Zui Oporto , Olivier Piguet

Discovery of electron hydrodynamics in graphene system has opened a new scope of analytic calculations in condensed matter physics, which was traditionally well cultivated in science and engineering as a non-relativistic hydrodynamics and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-14 Thandar Zaw Win , Cho Win Aung , Gaurav Khandal , Sabyasachi Ghosh

Graphene is the first example of truly two-dimensional crystals - it's just one layer of carbon atoms. It turns out to be a gapless semiconductor with unique electronic properties resulting from the fact that charge carriers in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson , K. S. Novoselov

Graphene, a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern, provides a unique two-dimensional (2D) system exhibiting exotic phenomena such as quantum Hall effects, massless Dirac quasiparticle excitations and universal absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 K. M. Dani , J. Lee , R. Sharma , A. D. Mohite , C. M. Galande , P. M. Ajayan , A. M. Dattelbaum , H. Htoon , A. J. Taylor , R. P. Prasankumar

The unique ultra-relativistic, massless, nature of electron states in two-dimensional extended graphene sheets, brought about by the honeycomb lattice arrangement of carbon atoms in two-dimensions, provides ingress to explorations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

A quantum mechanical model of two interacting electrons in graphene is considered. We concentrate on the case of zero total momentum of the pair. We show that the dynamics of the system is very unusual. Both stationary and time-dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-18 R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein , I. S. Terekhov

The role of defect-induced zero-energy modes on charge transport in graphene is investigated using Kubo and Landauer transport calculations. By tuning the density of random distributions of monovacancies either equally populating the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Alessandro Cresti , Frank Ortmann , Thibaud Louvet , Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The interplay between a magnetic field and the Coulomb potential from a charged vacancy on the electron states in graphene is investigated within the tight-binding model. The Coulomb potential removes locally Landau level degeneracy, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Jing Wang , Wen-Sheng Zhao , Yue Hu , R. N. Costa Filho , Francois M. Peeters

Atomic collapse in graphene nanoribbons behaves in a fundamentally different way as compared to monolayer graphene, due to the presence of multiple energy bands and the effect of edges. For armchair nanoribbons we find that bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jing Wang , Robbe Van Pottelberge , Amber Jacobs , Ben Van Duppen , Francois M. Peeters

Graphene is a model system for the study of electrons confined to a strictly two-dimensional layer1 and a large number of electronic phenomena have been demonstrated in graphene, from the fractional2, 3 quantum Hall effect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jian-Hao Chen , W. G. Cullen , E. D. Williams , M. S. Fuhrer

Resonant scattering at the atomic absorbates in graphene was investigated recently in relation with the transport and gap opening problems. Attaching an impurity atom to graphene is believed to lead to the creation of unusual zero energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 P. G. Silvestrov

Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Judit Sári , Mark O. Goerbig , Csaba Toke

Since its discovery in 2004, graphene, a two-dimensional hexagonal carbon allotrope, has generated great interest and spurred research activity from materials science to particle physics and vice versa. In particular, graphene has been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-03 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde , Eero Tölö

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