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The density of states and differential entropy per particle are analyzed for Dirac-like electrons in graphene subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field. For comparison, the derived density of states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Andrii A. Chaika , Yelizaveta Kulynych , D. O. Oriekhov , Sergei G. Sharapov

We employ the exact eigenstate basis formalism to study electrical conductivity in graphene, in the presence of short-range diagonal disorder and inter-valley scattering. We find that for disorder strength, $W \ge$ 5, the density of states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Rajyavardhan Ray , Avinash Singh

The moir\'e superlattice induced in graphene by the hexagonal boron nitride substrate modifies strongly the bandstructure of graphene, which manifests itself by the appearance of new Dirac points, accompanied by van Hove singularities. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 D. I. Indolese , R. Delagrange , P. Makk , J. R. Wallbank , K. Wanatabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Schönenberger

We report the existence of zero energy surface states localized at zigzag edges of bilayer graphene. Working within the tight-binding approximation we derive the analytic solution for the wavefunctions of these peculiar surface states. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-16 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

In present work, we theoretically study the electron wave's focusing phenomenon in a single layered graphene pn junction(PNJ) and obtain the electric current density distribution of graphene PNJ, which is in good agreement with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Weihua Mu , Gang Zhang , Yunqing Tang , Zhongcan Ou-Yang

We consider strained graphene, modelled by the two-dimensional massive Dirac operator, with potentials corresponding to charge distributions with vanishing total charge, non-vanishing dipole moment and finitely many point charges of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Florian Dorsch

The electrical conductivity of suspended graphene has recently been measured for the first time, and found to behave as \sigma ~ \sqrt{|n|} as expected for Dirac quasiparticles at large carrier density. The charge inhomogeneity is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-14 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde , Eero Tölö

The tunable magnetism at graphene edges with lengths of up to 48 unit cells is analyzed by an exact diagonalization technique. For this we use a generalized interacting one-dimensional model which can be tuned continuously from a limit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-26 David J. Luitz , Fakher F. Assaad , Manuel J. Schmidt

We theoretically examine the possible spin ordered states in zigzag graphene nanoribbon in a large supercell by the self-consistent mean field method as well as the first principle calculation. In addition to the well-known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Hang Xie , Jinhua Gao , Dezhuan Han

Properties of the boundary of two conductors in a quantizing magnetic field are studied: with conventional Dirac charge carriers and so-called pseudospin-1 fermions, which are realized in graphene-like and Lieb lattices respectively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 I. V. Kozlov , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

We study Josephson effect in a ballistic graphene strip of length $L$ smaller than the superconducting coherence length and arbitrary width $W$. We find that the dependence of the critical supercurrent $I_{c}$ on $W$ is drastically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

We analyze the zero-energy sector of the trigonal zigzag nanodisk and corner based on the Dirac theory of graphene. The zero-energy states are shown to be indexed by the edge momentum and grouped according to the irreducible representation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-19 Motohiko Ezawa

We determine the stability, the geometry, the electronic and magnetic structure of hydrogen-terminated graphene-nanoribbons edges as a function of the hydrogen content of the environment by means of density functional theory.…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-28 Tobias Wassmann , Ari P. Seitsonen , A. Marco Saitta , Michele Lazzeri , Francesco Mauri

The energy spectrum and electronic density of states (DOS) of zigzag graphene nanoribbons with edges reconstructed with topological defects are investigated within the tight-binding method. In case of the Stone-Wales zz (57) edge the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Richard Pincak , Jan Smotlacha , Vladimir A. Osipov

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 density of states, $\varrho(E)$, of graphene is investigated within the tight binding (H\"uckel) approximation in the presence of vacancies. They induce a non-vanishing density of zero modes, $n_\text{zm}$, that act as midgap states:…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Norman Weik , Johannes Schindler , Soumya Bera , Gemma C. Solomon , Ferdinand Evers

In graphene nanoribbon junctions, the nearly perfect transmission occurs in some junctions while the zero conductance dips due to anti-resonance appear in others. We have classified the appearance of zero conductance dips for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-07 Masayuki Yamamoto , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We solve the Dirac-Bogoliubov-De-Gennes equation in an impurity-free superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junction, to determine the maximal supercurrent that can flow through an undoped strip of graphene with heavily doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Titov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Electronic structures of the zigzag bilayer graphite nanoribbons(Z-BGNR) with various ribbon width $N$ are studied within the tight binding approximation. Neglecting the inter-layer hopping amplitude $\gamma_4$, which is an order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

We address the description of a graphene Corbino disk in the context of a tight binding approach that includes both kinetic and Rashba spin-orbit coupling due to an external out-of-plane electric field. Persistent equilibrium currents are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 A. López , N. Bolívar , E. Medina , B. Berche