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A theory of electron states for graphene nanoribbons with a smoothly varying width is developed. It is demonstrated that the standard adiabatic approximation allowing to neglect the mixing of different standing waves is more restrictive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson

We show that new massless Dirac fermions are generated when a slowly varying periodic potential is applied to graphene. These quasiparticles, generated near the supercell Brillouin zone boundaries with anisotropic group velocity, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-22 Cheol-Hwan Park , Li Yang , Young-Woo Son , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

The electronic transport properties through junctions in nanographite ribbons are investigated using the Landauer approach. In the low-energy regime ribbons with zigzag boundary have a single conducting channel of edge states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Manfred Sigrist

Twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle exhibits remarkably rich electron correlation physics, displaying insulating, magnetic, and superconducting phases. Here, using measurements of the local electronic compressibility, we reveal…

We study the energy spectrum and electronic properties of graphene in a periodic magnetic field of zero average with a symmetry of triangular lattice. The periodic field leads to formation of a set of minibands separated by gaps, which can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Taillefumier , V. K. Dugaev , B. Canals , C. Lacroix , P. Bruno

In the recent years many researches were performed about graphene. Graphene is always considered a half metal or a zero gap semiconductor. In the last year new experiments were done about graphene on boron nitride and they obtained an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Salvatore Croce

The effects of the electron-electron interactions in a graphene layer are investigated. It is shown that short range couplings are irrelevant, and scale towards zero at low energies, due to the vanishing of density of states at the Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , M. A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the impact of an induced mass term $\Delta$ on the current density in graphene subjected to a space- and time-dependent periodic potential $U(x,t)$. By solving the Dirac equation and deriving both the quasi-energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

Theoretical investigation of Dirac electrons in electrically modulated graphene under perpendicular magnetic field B is presented. We have carried out a detailed study of modulation effect on Dirac electrons, which determine its electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 M Arsalan Ali

We combined periodic ripples and electrostatic potentials to form curved graphene superlattices and studied the effects of space-dependent Fermi velocity induced from curvature on their electronic properties. With equal periods and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Jianli Luan , Kaiyi Guo , Shangyang Li , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

The prototypical exciton model of two interacting Dirac particles in graphene was analyzed in [1] and it was found that in one of the electron-hole scattering channels the total kinetic energy vanishes, resulting in a singular behaviour. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Lachlan L. Marnham , Andrey V. Shytov

Confining Dirac fermions in graphene by electrostatic fields is a challenging task. Electric quantum dots created by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip can trap zero-energy quasi-particles. The Lorentzian quantum well provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vít Jakubský

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

A method is derived to solve the massless Dirac-Weyl equation describing electron transport in a mono-layer of graphene with a scalar potential barrier U(x,t), homogeneous in the y-direction, of arbitrary x- and time dependence. Resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sergey E. Savel'ev , Wolfgang Hausler , Peter Hanggi

We study the ac electric potential induced by the electron sound wave (a perturbation of the electron distribution function propagating with the Fermi velocity) in single crystals of high purity gallium. The potential and the elastic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 Yu. A. Avramenko , E. V. Bezuglyi , N. G. Burma , V. D. Fil

This article summarizes our understanding of the Kondo effect in graphene, primarily from a theoretical perspective. We shall describe different ways to create magnetic moments in graphene, either by adatom deposition or via defects. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-18 Lars Fritz , Matthias Vojta

One-dimensional (1D) graphene superlattices have been predicted to exhibit zero-energy modes a decade ago, but an experimental proof has remained missing. Motivated by a recent experiment that could possibly shed light on this, here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Wun-Hao Kang , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

Zero resistance differential states have been observed in two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) subject to a magnetic field and a strong dc current. In a recent work we presented a model to describe the nonlinear transport regime of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manuel Torres , Alejandro Kunold

Finite graphene nanoribbon (GNR) heterostructures host intriguing topological in-gap states (Rizzo, D. J. et al.~\textit{Nature} \textbf{2018}, \textit{560}, 204]). These states may be localized either at the bulk edges, or at the ends of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Jan-Philip Joost , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Michael Bonitz

The reflectivity properties of graphene with nonzero mass-gap parameter are investigated in the framework of Dirac model using the polarization tensor in (2+1)-dimensional space-time. For this purpose, a more simple explicit representation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko