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Commensurability oscillations in the magnetotransport of periodically patterned systems, emerging from the interplay of cyclotron orbit and the pattern periodicity, are a benchmark of mesoscopic physics in electron gas systems. Exploiting…

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The electronic properties of hydrogenated graphenes are investigated with the first-principles calculations. Geometric structures, energy bands, charge distributions, and density of states (DOS) strongly depend on the different…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-09 Hao-Chun Huang , Shih-Yang Lin , Chung-Lin Wu , Ming-Fa Lin

We investigate electronic transport in the nitrogen-doped graphene containing different configurations of point defects: singly or doubly substituting N atoms and nitrogen-vacancy complexes. The results are numerically obtained using the…

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Electronic transport properties of monolayer graphene with extreme physical bending up to 90o angle are studied using ab Initio first-principle calculations. The importance of key structural parameters including step height, curvature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 Haiyuan Gao , Yang Xu , Meijiao Li , Zhendong Guo , Hongshen Chen , Zhonghe Jin , Bin Yu

Peculiar electronic properties of graphene, including the universal dc conductivity and the pseudodiffusive shot noise, are usually attributed to a small vicinity of the charge-neutrality point, away from which electron's effective mass…

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We develop a general hydrodynamic framework for computing direct current thermal and electric transport in a strongly interacting finite temperature quantum system near a Lorentz-invariant quantum critical point. Our framework is…

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We theoretically study the electronic and transport properties of two graphene layers vertically coupled by an insulating layer under the influence of a time-periodic external light field. The non-adiabatic driving induces excitations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Pascal Stadler , Tomas Löfwander , Mikael Fogelström

Recent advances in experimental techniques emphasize the usefulness of multiple scanning probe techniques when analyzing nanoscale samples. Here, we analyze theoretically dual-probe setups with probe separations in the nanometer range,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Dirch H. Petersen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Low temperature magnetoconductance measurements were made in the vicinity of the charge neutrality point. Two origins for the fluctuations were identified close to the CNP. At very low magnetic fields there exist only mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Simon Branchaud , Alicia Kam , Piotr Zawadzki , Francois M. Peeters , Andrew S. Sachrajda

The transport and gain properties of quantum cascade (QC) structures are investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function (NGF) theory which includes quantum effects beyond a Boltzmann transport description. In the NGF theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -C. Lee , A. Wacker

We study a tight binding model including both on site disorder and coupling of the electrons to randomly oriented magnetic moments. The transport properties are calculated via the Kubo-Greenwood scheme, using the exact eigenstates of the…

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The characteristics of energy band spectrum of armchair graphene nanoribbons in presence of line defect are analyzed within a simple non-interacting tight-binding framework. In metallic nanoribbons an energy gap may or may not appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in learning the ground-state electronic properties of materials, subverting ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations when the underlying lattices can be represented as small…

We demonstrate a method to determine energy level degeneracies using non-equilibrium electronic transport through voltage-biased quantum dots. We establish the general validity of this approach using single and double quantum dots in…

This review is devoted to the different techniques that have been developed to compute the phase-coherent transport properties of quantum nanoelectronic systems connected to electrodes. Beside a review of the different algorithms proposed…

Impurities exist inevitably in two-dimensional materials as they spontaneously adsorb onto the surface during fabrication, usually exerting detrimental effects on electronic transport. Here, we focus on a special type of impurities that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Jia-Le Yu , Zhe Hou , Irfan Hussain Bhat , Pei-Jia Hu , Jia-Wen Sun , Xiao-Feng Chen , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Accurate determination of carrier transport properties in two-dimensional (2D) materials is critical for designing high-performance nano-electronic devices and quantum information platforms. While first-principles calculations effectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Sathwik Bharadwaj , Ashwin Ramasubramaniam , L. R. Ram-Mohan

Owing to their wide tunability, spin- and valley internal degrees of freedom, and low disorder, graphene heterostructures are emerging as a promising experimental platform for fractional quantum Hall (FQH) studies. Surprisingly, however,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Hryhoriy Polshyn , Haoxin Zhou , Eric. M. Spanton , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Andrea F. Young

Using the tight-binding model and the generalized Green's function formalism, the effect of quantum interference on the electron transport through the benzene molecule in a semiconductor/benzene/semiconductor junction is numerically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Javad Vahedi , Zahra Sartipi