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Electron transport in a graphene quantum well can be analogous to photon transmission in an optical fiber. In this work, we present a detailed theoretical analysis to study the transport characteristics of graphene waveguides under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Nayyar Abbas Shah , Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo

The Green functions play a big role in the calculation of the local density of states of the carbon nanostructures. We investigate their nature for the variously oriented and disclinated graphene-like surface. Next, we investigate the case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 J. Smotlacha , R. Pincak , M. Pudlak

In this paper, we study the wave transport and localization properties of novel aperiodic structures that manifest the intrinsic complexity of prime number distributions in imaginary quadratic fields. In particular, we address…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-17 Luca Dal Negro , David Taylor Henderson , Fabrizio Sgrignuoli

We report the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems made of graphene nanoribbons which are patterned with ad-atoms in two separated regions. Due to the extra electronic confinement induced by the presence of the impurities, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 J. W. González , L. Rosales , M. Pacheco , A. Ayuela

The unique ultra-relativistic, massless, nature of electron states in two-dimensional extended graphene sheets, brought about by the honeycomb lattice arrangement of carbon atoms in two-dimensions, provides ingress to explorations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

We present an ab initio approach to electronic transport in nanoscale systems which includes electronic correlations through the GW approximation. With respect to Landauer approaches based on density-functional theory (DFT), we introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Andrea Ferretti , Didier Mayou , Valerio Olevano

The properties of graphene-like BC$_6$N semiconductor are studied using density functional theory taking into account the attractive interaction between B and N atoms. In the presence of a strong attractive interaction between B and N…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Botan Jawdat Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

A first principle theory of charge transport in spatially inhomogeneous quantum systems composed of any finite number of particles and subject to weak electro-magnetic fields is developed. Simple analytical expressions for the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liudmila A. Pozhar

Probing energy-dependent transport in quantum simulators requires preparing states with tunable energy and small energy variance. Existing approaches often study quench dynamics of simple initial states, such as computational basis states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Melody Lee , Roland C. Farrell

Recent progress in controllable functionalization of graphene surfaces enables the experimental realization of complex functionalized graphene nanostructures, such as Sierpinski carpet (SC) fractals. Herein, we model the SC fractals formed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Xiaotian Yang , Weiqing Zhou , Qi Yao , Pengfei Lv , Yunhua Wang , Shengjun Yuan

A semiclassical (SC) approach is developed for nonequilibrium quantum transport in molecular junctions. Following the early work of Miller and White [J. Chem. Phys. 84, 5059 (1986)], the many-electron Hamiltonian in second quantization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-28 David W. H. Swenson , Tal Levy , Guy Cohen , Eran Rabani , William H. Miller

Graphene enables precise carrier-density control via gating, making it an ideal platform for studying electronic interactions. However, sample inhomogeneities often limit access to the low-density regimes where these interactions dominate.…

We address the electronic structure and magnetic properties of vacancies and voids both in graphene and graphene ribbons. Using a mean field Hubbard model, we study the appearance of magnetic textures associated to removing a single atom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-27 J. J. Palacios , J. Fernandez-Rossier , L. Brey

Strongly correlated electron liquids which occur in quantizing magnetic fields reveal a cornucopia of fascinating quantum phenomena such as fractionally charged quasiparticles, anyonic statistics, topological order, and many others. Probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 D. A. Abanin , I. Skachko , X. Du , E. Y. Andrei , L. S. Levitov

We simulate the electronic and transport properties of metal/two-dimensional material/metal vertical heterostructures, with a focus on graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and two phases of molybdenum diselenide. Using density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Gaëlle Bigeard , Zineb Kerrami , François Triozon , Alessandro Cresti

We review the description and modeling of transport phenomena among the electron systems coupled via scalar or vector photons. It consists of three parts. The first part is about scalar photons, i.e., Coulomb interactions. The second part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng , Zu-Quan Zhang , Yong-Mei Zhang , Tao Zhu

The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Due to their unique electrical properties, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) show great promise as the building blocks of novel electronic devices. However, these properties are strongly dependent on the geometry of the edges of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Patrick Hawkins , Milan Begliarbekov , Marko Zivkovic , Stefan Strauf , Christopher P. Search

Based on a microcanonical picture that maps the steady-state quantum transport process to a drain-to-source excitation, we develop a constrained-search density functional formalism for finite-bias quantum transport calculations. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Han Seul Kim , Yong-Hoon Kim

The study explores perpendicular transport through macroscopically inhomogeneous three-dimensional disordered conductors using mesoscopic methods (real-space Green function technique in a two-probe measuring geometry). The nanoscale samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Branislav K. Nikolic