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An analysis of electron transport in graphene is presented in the presence of various arrangement of delta-function like magnetic barriers. The motion through one such barrier gives an unusual non specular refraction leading to asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

Semiconductor superlattices may display dispersions that are degenerate either at the zone center or zone boundary. We show that they are linear upon the wave-vector in the vicinity of the crossing point. This establishes a realisation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Francesca Carosella , Andreas Wacker , Robson Ferreira , Gérald Bastard

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

Recent studies show that periodic potentials can generate superlattice Dirac points at energies in graphene (is the Fermi velocity of graphene and G is the reciprocal superlattice vector). Here, we perform scanning tunneling microscopy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Hui Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Wei Yan , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Mudan Yang , Yide Fan , Jiang Wang , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We study the problem of Dirac fermion confinement in graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B. We show, analytically and numerically, that confinement leads to anomalies in the electronic spectrum and to a magnetic field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

In this paper, we study the massive Dirac equation with the presence of the Morse potential in polar coordinate. The Dirac Hamiltonian is written as two second-order differential equations in terms of two spinor wavefunctions. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Z. Zali , Alireza Amani , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions in ABC trilayer graphene (ABC-TLG) superlattices. More specifically, we analyze the impact of varying the physical parameters -- the number of cells, barrier/well width, and barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Jaouad El-hassouny , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

Many of graphene's unique electronic properties emerge from its Dirac-like electronic energy spectrum. Similarly, it is expected that a nanophotonic system featuring Dirac dispersion will open a path to a number of important research…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Bravo-Abad , J. D. Joannopoulos , M. Soljacic

Electrons in graphene are described by relativistic Dirac-Weyl spinors with a two-component pseudospin1-12. The unique pseudospin structure of Dirac electrons leads to emerging phenomena such as the massless Dirac cone2, anomalous quantum…

Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Judit Sári , Mark O. Goerbig , Csaba Toke

Scattering of a 2D Dirac electrons on a rectangular matrix potential barrier is considered using the formalism of spinor transfer matrices. It is shown, in particular, that in the absence of the mass term, the Klein tunneling is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder , M. A. Khan , Michael N. Leuenberger

Electrodynamic properties of the graphene - magnetic semiconductor - graphene superlattice placed in magnetic field have been investigated theoretically in Faraday geometry with taking into account dissipation processes. Frequency and field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov

Due to the chiral nature of the Dirac equation, overlying of an electrical superlattice (SL) can open new Dirac points on the Fermi-surface of the energy spectrum. These lead to novel low-excitation physical phenomena. A typical example for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juergen Dietel , Hagen Kleinert

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

The Landau level spectrum of graphene superlattices is studied using a tight-binding approach. We consider non-interacting particles moving on a hexagonal lattice with an additional one-dimensional superlattice made up of periodic square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

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

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

In this article, we employ the transfer matrix method (TMM) to analytically explore the impact of uniaxial strain on electron scattering in graphene under locally periodic and super-periodic electrostatic potential. Our study reveals that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sudhanshu Shekhar , Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Anirban Dutta

We demonstrate that graphene-based photonic superlattices provide a versatile platform for electrical and all-optical control of photonic beams with deep-subwavelength accuracy. Specifically, by inserting graphene sheets into periodic…