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Magneto-Raman scattering experiments from the surface of graphite reveal novel features associated to purely electronic excitations which are observed in addition to phonon-mediated resonances. Graphene-like and graphite domains are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Faugeras , M. Amado , P. Kossacki , M. Orlita , M. Kühne , A. A. L. Nicolet , Yu. I. Latyshev , M. Potemski

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk

Transport measurements have been a powerful tool for uncovering new electronic phenomena in graphene. We report nonlocal measurements performed in the Hall bar geometry with voltage probes far away from the classical path of charge flow. We…

We present electronic transport measurements through short and narrow (30x30 nm) single layer graphene constrictions on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. While the general observation of Coulomb-blockade is compatible with earlier work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Dominik Bischoff , Florian Libisch , Joachim Burgdörfer , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

Two opposite chiralities of Dirac electrons in a 2D graphene sheet modify the Friedel oscillations strongly: electrostatic potential around an impurity in graphene decays much faster than in 2D electron gas. At distances $r$ much larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Ke Wang , M. E. Raikh , T. A. Sedrakyan

Graphene nanoflakes are interesting because electrons are naturally confined in these quasi-zero-dimensional structures, whereas confinement in bulk graphene would require a band gap. Vacancies inside the graphene lattice lead to localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Matthias Droth , Guido Burkard

The quantum corrections to the conductivity and the thermopower in monolayer graphene are studied. We use the recursive Green's function method to calculate numerically the conductivity and the thermopower of graphene. We then analyze these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Aleksander P. Hinz , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Stefan Kettemann

The quantum Hall effect is widely used for the investigation of fundamental phenomena, ranging from topological phases to composite fermions. In particular, the discovery of a room temperature resistance quantum in graphene is significant…

Recent successes in manufacturing of atomically thin graphite samples (graphene) have stimulated intense experimental and theoretical activity. The key feature of graphene is the massless Dirac type of low-energy electron excitations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

It is shown that clustering of charged impurities on graphene can suppress their contribution to the resistivity by a large factor of about the number of impurities per cluster, while leaving the density dependence unchanged. If the cluster…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea , A. K. Geim

Electron-hole asymmetry is a fundamental property in solids that can determine the nature of quantum phase transitions and the regime of operation for devices. The observation of electron-hole asymmetry in graphene and recently in the phase…

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Caglar Girit , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

Graphene is an attractive electrode material to contact nanostructures down to the molecular scale since it can be gated electrostatically. Gating can be used to control the doping and the energy level alignment in the nanojunction, thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Nick R. Papior , Tue Gunst , Daniele Stradi , Mads Brandbyge

We show that the electron-phonon coupling in graphene, in contrast with the non-relativistic two-dimensional electron gas, leads to shifts in the phonon frequencies that are non-trivial functions of the electronic density. These shifts can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 A. H. Castro Neto , Francisco Guinea

The specific band structure of graphene, with its unique valley structure and Dirac neutrality point separating hole states from electron states has led to the observation of new electronic transport phenomena such as anomalously quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nikolaos Tombros , Csaba Jozsa , Mihaita Popinciuc , Harry T. Jonkman , Bart J. van Wees

The effect of electronic interactions in graphene with vacancies or resonant scatterers is investigated. We apply dynamical mean-field theory in combination with quantum Monte Carlo simulations, which allow us to treat non-perturbatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 P. Haase , S. Fuchs , T. Pruschke , H. Ochoa , F. Guinea

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

We study quantum interference effects on the transition strength for strongly localized electrons hopping on 2D square and 3D cubic lattices in a magnetic field B. In 2D, we obtain closed-form expressions for the tunneling probability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Yeong-Lieh Lin , Franco Nori

We present a theory of electronic transport in graphene in the presence of randomly placed adsorbates. Our analysis predicts a marked asymmetry of the conductivity about the Dirac point, as well as a negative weak-localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 John P. Robinson , Henning Schomerus , Laszlo Oroszlany , Vladimir I. Fal'ko