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The recently realized bilayer graphene system with a twist angle of $30^\circ$ offers a new type of quasicrystal which unites the dodecagonal quasicrystalline nature and graphene's relativistic properties. Here, we introduce a concise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino , Young-Woo Son

We derive an exact result for the averaged Feynman propagator and the corresponding density of states of an electron in two dimensions in a perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field and a Gaussian random potential with long-range spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lothar Spies , Walter Apel , Bernhard Kramer

It is well-known that the tight-binding Hamiltonian of graphene describes the low-energy excitations that appear to be massless chiral Dirac fermions. Thus, in the continuum limit one can analyze the crystal properties using the formalism…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-03 P. Kosinski , P. Maslanka , J. Slawinska , I. Zasada

Spontaneous magnetization of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is discussed. It takes place for sufficiently high electron density (i.e. for a quantum fluid state) with $r_s<10$ which is quite beyond the condition of Wigner…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Vyurkov , A. Vetrov

The experimental demonstration of pseudo-magnetic fields exceeding 300 T in graphene [2] nanobubbles represents considerable challenge for the present theory connecting the emergence of gauge fields due to strain in the underlying lattice.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-01 Victor Atanasov

An electrostatic quantum dot cannot be formed in monolayer graphene, because of the Klein tunnelling. However, a dot can be formed with the help of a uniform magnetic field. As shown here, a spatial modulation of the Dirac gap leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Giavaras , Franco Nori

The electromagnetic response of bilayer graphene in a magnetic field is studied in comparison with that of monolayer graphene. Both types of graphene turn out to be qualitatively quite similar in dielectric and screening characteristics,…

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

We review the theoretical and experimental results connected with the electron states in two-dimensional Dirac systems paying a special attention to the atomic collapse in graphene. Two-electron bound states of a Coulomb impurity are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-15 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

A two-dimensional (2D) hydrogen-like atom with a relativistic Dirac electron, placed in a weak, static, uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the atomic plane, is considered. Closed forms of the first- and second-order Zeeman corrections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Radosław Szmytkowski

We formulate and solve the perhaps simplest two-body bound state problem for interacting Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions. A two-body bound state is predicted for gapped graphene monolayers in the presence of weakly repulsive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. De Martino , R. Egger

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The density of states and the Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas in a uniform magnetic field and in the presence of a delta impurity are exactly calculated using elementary field theoretic techniques. Although these results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. Cavalcanti , C. A. A. de Carvalho

We study the problem of two Dirac particles interacting through non-relativistic potentials and confined to a two-dimensional sheet, which is the relevant case for graphene layers. The two-body problem cannot be mapped into that of a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 J. Sabio , F. Sols , F. Guinea

Graphene has attracted a great interest in material science due to its novel electronic structrues. Recently, magnetism discovered in graphene based systems opens the possibility of their spintronics application. This paper provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 Erjun Kan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

The density functional theory is used to study the electronic structure of a quantum wire in a magnetic field. The Kohn-Sham equations are solved numerically for different values of electron densities and filling factors. The critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 A. A. Vasilchenko

The electronic density of states of graphene is equivalent to that of relativistic electrons. In the absence of disorder or external doping the Fermi energy lies at the Dirac point where the density of states vanishes. Although transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , J. H. Smet , K. von Klitzing , A. Yacoby

We devise a supersymmetry-based method for the construction of zero-energy states in graphene. Our method is applied to a two-dimensional massless Dirac equation with a hyperbolic scalar potential. We determine supersymmetric partners of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Axel Schulze Halberg , Pinaki Roy

The gap equation for Dirac quasiparticles in monolayer graphene in constant magnetic and pseudomagnetic fields, where the latter is due to strain, is studied in a low-energy effective model with contact interactions. Analyzing solutions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-14 D. O. Rybalka , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

We study a relativistic two-dimensional free electron gas in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field and a random static scalar potential. We compute the expectation values of the charge density and the conductivity tensor,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 N. Bralic , R. M. Cavalcanti , C. A. A. de Carvalho , P. Donatis

We study the ground state of a clean two-dimensional electron liquid in a weak magnetic field where $N \gg 1$ lower Landau levels are completely filled and the upper level is partially filled. It is shown that the electrons at the upper…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. A. Koulakov , M. M. Fogler , B. I. Shklovskii