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We analyze a gap equation for the propagator of Dirac quasiparticles and conclude that in graphene in a magnetic field, the order parameters connected with the quantum Hall ferromagnetism dynamics and those connected with the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

We study the conductance spectrum of graphene quantum dots, both single and multiple cases. The single electron tunneling phenomenon is investigated and the periodicity, amplitude and line shape of the Coulomb blockade oscillations at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-17 Qiong Ma , Tao Tu , Zhi-Rong Lin , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo

Electron correlation in graphene is unique because of the interplay of the Dirac cone dispersion of $\pi$ electrons with long range Coulomb interaction. The random phase approximation predicts no metallic screening at long distance and low…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-23 Huihuo Zheng , Yu Gan , Peter Abbamonte , Lucas K. Wagner

We investigate the problem of dynamical gap generation in suspended graphene by long-range Coulomb interactions at strong coupling with Dyson-Schwinger equations. Including renormalization effects on the Fermi velocity we obtain a critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-12 C. Popovici , C. S. Fischer , L. von Smekal

We consider a square lattice configuration of circular gate-defined quantum dots in an unbiased graphene sheet and calculate the electronic, particularly spectral properties of finite albeit actual sample sized systems by means of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Pieper , R. L. Heinisch , G. Wellein , H. Fehske

We develop the stub model for the Dirac Quantum Dot, an electron confining device on a grapheme surface. Analytical results for the average conductance and the correlation functions are obtained and found in agreement with those found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 J. G. G. S. Ramos , M. S. Hussein , A. L. R. Barbosa

In this work, we focus on the fermionic structure of the low-energy excitations of graphene (a monolayer of carbon atoms) to propose a new supersymmetric field-theoretic model for this physical system. In the current literature, other…

The layered graphene systems exhibit the rich and unique excitation spectra arising from the electron-electron Coulomb interactions. The generalized tight-binding model is developed to cover the planar/buckled/cylindrical structures,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Chiun-Yan Lin , Jhao-Ying Wu , Chih-Wei Chiu , Ming-Fa Lin

Graphene, a two-dimensional crystal made of carbon atoms, provides a new and unexpected bridge between low and high-energy physics. The field has evolved very fast and very good reviews are already available in the literature. Graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alberto Cortijo , Francisco Guinea , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

Brief review of the theoretical and experimental results, based mainly on the works of authors, in the application of quantum field theory to the study of carbon low-dimensional systems - quasi-1D carbon nanotubes, carbynes and graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Alla Dovlatova , Dmitri Yerchuck

The screening problem for the Coulomb potential of a charge located in a two-dimensional (2D) system has an intriguing solution with a power law distance screening factor due to out-of-plane electrical fields. This is crucially different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 K. A. Baryshnikov , A. V. Gert , Yu. B. Vasilyev , A. P. Dmitriev

The realization of graphene has provided a bench-top laboratory for quantum electrodynamics. The low-energy excitations of graphene are two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions with opposite chiralities at the $\pm$K valleys of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Liguo Ma , Raghav Chaturvedi , Phuong X. Nguyen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

In this article we review the quantum Hall physics of graphene based two-dimensional electron systems, with a special focus on recent experimental and theoretical developments. We explain why graphene and bilayer graphene can be viewed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yafis Barlas , Kun Yang , A. H. MacDonald

We present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

The electronic behavior in graphene under arbitrary uniaxial deformations, such as foldings or flexural fields is studied by including in the Dirac equation pseudoelectromagnetic fields. General foldings are thus studied by showing that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Abdiel E. Champo , Gerardo G. Naumis

We report on transport characteristics of quantum dot devices etched entirely in graphene. At large sizes, they behave as conventional single-electron transistors, exhibiting periodic Coulomb blockade peaks. For quantum dots smaller than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-18 L. A. Ponomarenko , F. Schedin , M. I. Katsnelson , R. Yang , E. H. Hill , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

We compute the Coulomb correction $\mathcal{C}$ to the a. c. conductivity of interacting massless Dirac particles in graphene in the collisionless limit using the polarization tensor approach in a regularization independent framework.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-11 G. Gazzola , A. L. Cherchiglia , L. A. Cabral , M. C. Nemes , Marcos Sampaio

Quantum electrodynamics predicts that heavy atoms ($Z > Z_c \approx 170$) will undergo the process of atomic collapse where electrons sink into the positron continuum and a new family of so-called collapsing states emerges. The relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dean Moldovan , Massoud Ramezani Masir , Francois M. Peeters

Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai