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A two-dimensional periodic array of scatterers has been introduced to a single layer of graphene in the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene layer. The eigenvalue equation for such a system has been solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

I. Introduction II. Two-dimensional lattice fermions III. Methods to avoid fermion doubling (sine dispersion, sine plus cosine dispersion, staggered lattice dispersion, linear sawtooth dispersion, tangent dispersion) IV. Topologically…

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Transport through potential barriers in graphene is investigated using a set of metallic gates capacitively coupled to graphene to modulate the potential landscape. When a gate-induced potential step is steep enough, disorder becomes less…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-18 N. Stander , B. Huard , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Whereas massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene exhibit Klein tunneling when passing through a potential barrier upon normal incidence, such a barrier totally reflects massive Dirac fermions in bilayer graphene due to difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-09 Neetu Agrawal , Sameer Grover , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

We study the tunneling time of Dirac fermions in graphene magnetic barrier through an electrostatic potential and a mass term. This latter generates an energy gap in the spectrum and therefore affects the proprieties of tunneling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Youssef Fattasse , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Abdelhadi Bahaoui

The mode-dependent transmission of relativistic ballistic massless Dirac fermion through a graphene based double barrier structure is being investigated for various barrier parameters. We compare our results with already published work and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ahmed Jellal , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Hocine Bahlouli , Abdullah Aljaafari

We calculate the tunneling process of a Dirac particle across two square barriers separated a distance $d$, as well as the scattering by a double cusp barrier where the centers of the cusps are separated a distance larger than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Victor M. Villalba , Luis Gonzalez-Arraga

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

We present a semiclassical study of a transport process, the tunneling, in the presence of a magnetic field and a dissipative environment. We have found that the problem can be mapped onto an effective one-dimensional one, and the tunneling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ping Ao

The probability amplitude for tunneling between the Dirac vacua corresponding to different signs of a parity breaking fermionic mass $M$ in $2+1$ dimensions is studied, making contact with the continuum overlap formulation for chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. D. Fosco

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Quantum resonant tunneling behaviors of double-barrier structures on graphene are investigated under the tight-binding approximation. The Klein tunneling and resonant tunneling are demonstrated for the quasiparticles with energy close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Wei-Yin Deng , Rui Zhu , Yun-Chang Xiao , Wen-Ji Deng

We study the transmission of Dirac fermions in graphene through a tilted barrier potential in the presence of a laser field of frequency $\omega$. By using Floquet theory, we solve the Dirac equation and then obtain the energy spectrum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal

We study the properties of Dirac fermions on the surface of a topological insulator in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. We provide an exact solution to this problem and demonstrate that, in contrast to their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Mondal , D. Sen , K. Sengupta , R. Shankar

The electric conductance of a strip of undoped graphene increases in the presence of a disorder potential, which is smooth on atomic scales. The phenomenon is attributed to impurity-assisted resonant tunneling of massless Dirac fermions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Titov

Two infinite, two-dimensional, lattice, free fermion systems, initially in different invariant states, are allowed to communicate via two point contacts, through which direct tunneling of fermions takes place. Calculations of the local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 N. Angelescu , M. Bundaru , R. Bundaru , I. Popescu

A new class of multilayered functional materials has recently emerged in which the component atomic layers are held together by weak van der Waals forces that preserve the structural integrity and physical properties of each layer. An…

We investigate the scattering of fermions off walls in the presence of a magnetic field. We consider both the bubble wall and the kink domain wall. By solving the Dirac equation for fermions in the presence of a domain wall in an external…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Campanelli , P. Cea , G. L. Fogli , L. Tedesco

We study quantum transport and scattering of massless Dirac fermions by spatially localized static magnetic fields. The employed model describes in a unified manner the effects of orbital magnetic fields, Zeeman and exchange fields in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Zazunov , A. Kundu , A. Hütten , R. Egger

We theoretically investigate the interlayer magnetoresistance in quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermion systems, where the Fermi energy is at the Dirac point. If there is an intermediate insulating layer that has an overlap with the wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-30 Takao Morinari