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We obtained exact solutions for the wave function and the Green function in the slow light pulse with the group velocity, consistent with the Fermi velocity in graphene.

Optics · Physics 2016-07-18 P. A. Golovinski , V. A. Astapenko , A. V. Yakovets

The recent experimental discovery of ${\rm Cd_3 As_2}$ and ${\rm Na_3 Bi}$ Dirac semimetals enables the study of the properties of chiral quasi-particles in three spatial dimensions. As demonstrated by photoemission, Dirac semimetals are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Robert D. Pisarski , Ho-Ung Yee

Dirac plasmons in a doped graphene sheet have recently been shown to enable confinement of light to ultrasmall volumes. In this work we calculate the intrinsic lifetime of a Dirac plasmon in a doped graphene sheet by analyzing the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale , Matteo Carrega , Marco Polini

By solving two-component spinor equation for massless Dirac Fermions, we show that graphene under a periodic external magnetic field exhibits a unique energy spectrum: At low energies, Dirac Fermions are localized inside the magnetic region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Shuanglong Liu , Argo Nurbawono , Na Guo , Chun Zhang

The present work deals with a theoretical research on the emission and radiation properties of a dipole emitter source close to a dimer graphene plasmonic antenna. Modification of the radiation and the quantum efficiencies resulting from…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Mauro Cuevas

In graphene in the presence of strain the elasticity theory metric naturally appears. However, this is not the one experienced by fermionic quasiparticles. Fermions propagate in curved space, whose metric is defined by expansion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 G. E. Volovik , M. A. Zubkov

Graphene is considered to be plasmon active only up to the infrared based on combined tight binding model and random phase approximation calculations. Here we show that the optical properties of graphene as measured by ellipsometry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-28 Philipp Lange , Günter Kewes , Nikolai Severin , Oliver Benson , Jürgen P. Rabe

We present measurements of transmission and reflection spectra of a microwave photonic crystal composed of 874 metallic cylinders arranged in a triangular lattice. The spectra show clear evidence of a Dirac point, a characteristic of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 S. Bittner , B. Dietz , M. Miski-Oglu , P. Oria Iriarte , A. Richter , F. Schaefer

The decay dynamics of excited carriers in graphene have attracted wide scientific attention, as the gapless Dirac electronic band structure opens up relaxation channels that are not allowed in conventional materials. We report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Laura Kim , Seyoon Kim , Pankaj K. Jha , Victor W. Brar , Harry A. Atwater

Within the Dirac model for the electronic excitations of graphene, we calculate the full polarization tensor with finite mass and chemical potential. It has, besides the (00)-component, a second form factor, which must be accounted for. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 M. Bordag , I. G. Pirozhenko

We theoretically study a doped graphene ribbon suspended over a trench and subject to an ac-electrical field polarized perpendicularly to the graphene plane. In such a system, the external ac-field is coupled to the relatively slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Axel M. Eriksson , Leonid Y. Gorelik

We have measured a strictly linear pi-plasmon dispersion along the axis of individualized single wall carbon nanotubes, which is completely different from plasmon dispersions of graphite or bundled single wall carbon nanotubes. Comparative…

Numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for plasmon dispersion relations and rates of dissipation are first obtained at finite-temperatures for free-standing gapped graphene. These closed-system results are generalized to an open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , V. M. Silkin

The relevance of the strain-induced Dirac point shift to obtain the appropriate anisotropic Fermi velocity of strained graphene is demonstrated. Then a critical revision of the available effective Dirac Hamiltonians is made by studying in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 M. Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo G. Naumis

We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general expression of frequency and wave-vector dependent polarizability within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tao Zhu , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang

In the present paper we calculate the dielectric functions of an ultra-relativistic plasma, such as an electron-positron or a quark-gluon plasma. We use classical transport theory and take into account collisions within the relaxation time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Carrington , T. Fugleberg , D. Pickering , M. H. Thoma

We provide a theoretical model that describes the dielectric coupling of a 2D layer of graphene, represented by a polarization function in the Random Phase Approximation, and a semi-infinite 3D substrate, represented by a surface response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 K. F. Allison , Z. L. Miskovic

The electromagnetic response of graphene in a magnetic field is studied, with particular emphasis on the quantum features of its ground state (vacuum). The graphene vacuum, unlike in conventional quantum Hall systems, is a dielectric medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shizuya

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

The photoresponse of graphene has recently received considerable attention. The main mechanisms yielding a finite dc response to an oscillating radiation field which have been investigated include responses of photovoltaic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Andrea Tomadin , Marco Polini