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Despite extensive existing studies, a complete understanding of the role of disorder in affecting the physical properties of two-dimensional Dirac fermionic systems remains a standing challenge, largely due to obstacles encountered in…

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We study transport in undoped graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential both within a simple continuum model and using numerical tight-binding calculations. The continuum model demonstrates that the conductivity of the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 P. Burset , A. Levy Yeyati , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We calculate the differential, total, and transport cross-sections for scattering of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons by a circular barrier. For scatterer of a small radius, the cross-sections are dominated by quantum effects such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Jhih-Sheng Wu , Michael M. Fogler

This paper concerns the asymmetric transport associated with a low-energy interface Dirac model of graphene-type materials subject to external magnetic and electric fields. We show that the relevant physical observable, an interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Solomon Quinn , Guillaume Bal

The electronic structure of a graphene superlattice composed by two periodic regions with different Fermi velocity, energy gap and electrostatic potential is investigated by using an effective Dirac-like Hamiltonian. It must be expected…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Jonas R. F. Lima

We study the response of a Dirac fluid to electric fields and thermal gradients at finite wave-numbers and frequencies in the hydrodynamic regime. We find that non-local transport in the hydrodynamic regime is governed by infinite set of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-05 Egor I. Kiselev , Joerg Schmalian

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

We consider the transmission of massless Dirac fermions through an array of short range scatterers which are modeled as randomly positioned $\delta$- function like potentials along the x-axis. We particularly discuss the interplay between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-07-19 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

Representing massless Dirac fermions on a spatial lattice poses a potential challenge known as the Fermion Doubling problem. Addition of a quadratic term to the Dirac Hamiltonian circumvents this problem. We show that the modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 K. M. Masum Habib , Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

Nonlocal Lotka-Volterra models have the property that solutions concentrate as Dirac masses in the limit of small diffusion. Is it possible to describe the dynamics of the limiting concentration points and of the weights of the Dirac…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Alexander Lorz , Sepideh Mirrahimi , Benoît Perthame

We study above-barrier scattering of Dirac electrons by a smooth electrostatic potential combined with a coordinate-dependent mass in graphene. We assume that the potential and mass are sufficiently smooth, so that we can define a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 K. J. A. Reijnders , D. S. Minenkov , M. I. Katsnelson , S. Yu. Dobrokhotov

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 this work, we have obtained the solutions of the (1 + 1) dimensional Dirac equation on a gravitational background within the generalized uncertainty principle. We have shown that how minimal length parameters effect the Dirac particle in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 Ozlem Yesiltas

We show that a generalized Dirac structure survives beyond the linear regime of the low-energy dispersion relations of graphene. A generalized uncertainty principle of the kind compatible with specific quantum gravity scenarios with a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Iorio , P. Pais , I. A. Elmashad , A. F. Ali , Mir Faizal , L. I. Abou-Salem

We investigate thermoelectric transport in monolayer graphene across a finite complex barrier within a Landauer scattering framework. Solving the Dirac-Weyl problem exactly, we show that the imaginary part of the barrier renders the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Daniel A. Bonilla , Juan A. Cañas , J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , A. Martín-Ruiz

The influence of electron-electron scattering on the distribution function and transport characteristics of intrinsic monolayer graphene is investigated via an ensemble Monte Carlo simulation. Due to the linear dispersion relation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 X. Li , E. A. Barry , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

The rising interest in Dirac materials, condensed matter systems where low-energy electronic excitations are described by the relativistic Dirac Hamiltonian, entails a need for microscopic effective models to analytically describe their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Jeyson Támara-Isaza , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

Transmission probabilities of Dirac fermions in graphene under linear barrier potential oscillating in time are investigated. Solving Dirac equation we end up with the solutions of the energy spectrum depending on several modes coming from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui