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The sharp Dirac cone of the electronic dispersion confers to graphene a remarkable sensitivity to strain. It is usually encoded in scalar and pseudo-vector potentials, induced by the modification of hopping parameters, which have given rise…
Landau level quantization in graphene reflects the Dirac nature of its quasiparticles and has been found to exhibit an unusual integer quantum Hall effect. In particular the lowest Landau level can be thought as shared equally by electrons…
Measurement and theory of the two-terminal conductance of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime are compared. We examine features of conductance as a function of gate voltage that allow monolayer, bilayer, and gapped…
When a graphene layer is stressed, the strain alters the phase an electron accumulates hopping between sites in a way that can be modeled as arising from a pseudo-magnetic vector potential. We examine the case of an oscillating graphene…
We investigate magnetotransport in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic graphene junction where a gate electrode is attached to the normal segment. It is shown that the charge conductance can be maximal at an antiparallel configuration of…
We consider electron waveguides (quantum wires) in graphene created by suitable inhomogeneous magnetic fields. The properties of uni-directional snake states are discussed. For a certain magnetic field profile, two spatially separated…
We report on transport characteristics of quantum dot devices etched entirely in graphene. At large sizes, they behave as conventional single-electron transistors, exhibiting periodic Coulomb blockade peaks. For quantum dots smaller than…
We have studied the quantum oscillations in the conductivity of metallic, p-type Bi$_2$Se$_{2.1}$Te$_{0.9}$. The dependence of the oscillations on the angle of the magnetic field with the surface as well as the Berry phase determined from…
We theoretically consider, comparing with the existing experimental literature, the electrical conductivity of gated monolayer graphene as a function of carrier density, temperature, and disorder in order to assess the prospects of…
The conductance of graphene subject to a strong, tilted magnetic field exhibits a dramatic change from insulating to conducting behavior with tilt-angle, regarded as evidence for the transition from a canted antiferromagnetic (CAF) to a…
We report measurements of magnetoresistance in single-layer graphene as a function of gate voltage (carrier density) at 250 mK. By examining signatures of weak localization (WL) and universal conductance fluctuations (UCF), we find a…
Peculiar electronic properties of graphene, including the universal dc conductivity and the pseudodiffusive shot noise, are usually attributed to a small vicinity of the charge-neutrality point, away from which electron's effective mass…
We investigate the electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in a gapped graphene quantum dot in the presence of a magnetic flux. The circular quantum dot is defined by an electrostatic gate potential delimited in an infinite graphene…
We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder at half filling. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the symmetry of disorder. We find that…
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 >…
Recently unusual integer quantum Hall effect was observed in graphene in which the Hall conductivity is quantized as $\sigma_{xy}=(\pm 2, \pm 6, \pm 10, >...) \times \frac{e^2}{h}$, where $e$ is the electron charge and $h$ is the Planck…
The minimum conductivity value as well as the linear dependence of conductivity on the charge density near the Dirac point in single and doublelayer graphene is derived from the energy-time uncertainty principle applied to ballistic charge…
We investigate the transmissions of fermions through gapped graphene structures by employing a combination of double barrier tilting and a time-oscillating potential. The latter introduces additional sidebands into the transmission…
We theoretically analyse the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in circular quantum dot arrays, impressed on contacted graphene nanoribbons by top gates. Utilising exact numerical techniques, we compute the scattering…
We investigate the density and temperature-dependent conductance of graphene nanoribbons with varying aspect ratio. Transport is dominated by a chain of quantum dots forming spontaneously due to disorder. Depending on ribbon length,…