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This work continues the development of the raytracing method of [1] for computing the scattered fields from metasurfaces characterized by locally periodic reflection and transmission coefficients. In this work, instead of describing the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Scott Stewart , Yvo L. C. de Jong , Tom J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

We study the the transport properties of multiterminal ballistic graphene samples, concentrating on the conductance matrix, fluctuations and cross-correlations. Far away from Dirac point, the current is carried mostly by propagating modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä

We study the influence of a localized Gaussian deformation on massless Dirac fermions confined to a two-dimensional curved surface. Both in-plane and out-of-plane displacements are considered within the framework of elasticity theory. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Samuel B. B. Almeida , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

We study the motion of charge carriers in curved Dirac materials, in the presence of a local Fermi velocity. An explicit parameterization of the latter emerging quantity for a nanoscroll cylindrical geometry is also provided, together with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 B. Bagchi , A. Gallerati , R. Ghosh

Wave propagation control by spatial modulation of velocity has a long history in optics and acoustics. We address velocity-modulation control of electron wave propagation in graphene and other two-dimensional Dirac-electron systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Arnaud Raoux , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. R. Hamilton , Rosario Fazio , A. H. MacDonald

The effect of charge-carrier screening on the transport properties of a neutral graphene sheet is studied by directly probing its electronic structure. We find that the Fermi velocity, Dirac point velocity, and overall distortion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 David A. Siegel , William Regan , Alexei V. Fedorov , A. Zettl , Alessandra Lanzara

Starting from a gauge invariant Dirac Hamiltonian with noncommutativity of space sector in the presence of an external uniform magnetic field, the resulting Dirac equation has been solved for electrons and its corresponding zitterbewegung…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-24 Mehran Zahiri Abyaneh , Mehrdad Farhoudi

We solve the problem of electron scattering at a soft temporal potential step. Given the relativistic nature of the problem, we use the Dirac equation, with its spinor wavefunction. We find solutions in terms of hypergeometric functions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Furkan Ok , Christophe Caloz

We fabricate a graphene p-n-p heterojunction and exploit the coherence of weakly-confined Dirac quasiparticles to resolve the underlying scattering potential using low temperature scanning gate microscopy. The tip-induced perturbation to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 E. D. Herbschleb , R. K. Puddy , P. Marconcini , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , M. Macucci , C. G. Smith , M. R. Connolly

We are interested in the averaged behavior of interfaces moving in stationary ergodic environments, with oscillatory normal velocity which changes sign. This problem can be reformulated, using level sets, as the homogenization of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-02 A. Ciomaga , P. E. Souganidis , H. V. Tran

We investigate the two-port scattering process in non-Hermitian dimer models via quantum measurements using external leads. We focus on two exemplary dimer models that preserve parity-time symmetry via spatial gain-loss balance and exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jung-Wan Ryu , Henning Schomerus , Hee Chul Park

A Lagrangian surface hopping algorithm is implemented to study the two dimensional massless Dirac equation for Graphene with an electrostatic potential, in the semiclassical regime. In this problem, the crossing of the energy levels of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Ali Faraj , Shi Jin

We investigate the influence of the temporal variations of various medium parameters on the propagation of Dirac-type waves in materials where the quasiparticles are described by a generalized version of the pseudospin-1/2 Dirac equation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

This paper presents a theory of interaction-induced band-flattening in strongly correlated electron systems. We begin by illustrating an inherent connection between flat bands and index theorems, and presenting a generic prescription for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-18 Alireza Parhizkar , Victor Galitski

This paper presents a fast algorithm for computing transport properties of two-dimensional Dirac operators with linear domain walls, which model the macroscopic behavior of the robust and asymmetric transport observed at an interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Guillaume Bal , Jeremy G Hoskins , Zhongjian Wang

We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

We present an effective hydrodynamic theory of electronic transport in graphene in the interaction-dominated regime. We derive the emergent hydrodynamic description from the microscopic Boltzmann kinetic equation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 U. Briskot , M. Schütt , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov , B. N. Narozhny , A. D. Mirlin

A continuum model to study the influence of dislocations on the electronic properties of condensed matter systems is described and analyzed. The model is based on a geometrical formalism that associates a density of dislocations with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano

High-mobility graphene hosting massless charge carriers with linear dispersion provides a promising platform for electron optics phenomena. Inspired by the physics of dielectric optical micro-cavities where the photon emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Jule-Katharina Schrepfer , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter , Martina Hentschel

The Dirac Hamiltonian in the (2+1) dimensional curved space-time has been studied with a metric for an expanding de Sitter space-time which is a two sphere. The spectrum and the exact solutions of the time dependent non-Hermitian and angle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Ozlem Yeşiltaş