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Graphene quantum dots are promising candidates for qubits due to weak spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions. The hyperfine interaction, controllable via isotopic purification, could be the key to further improving the coherence. Here, we…

Locally-gated single-layer graphene sheets have unusual discrete energy states inside the potential barrier induced by a finite-width gate. These states are localized outside the Dirac cone of continuum states and are responsible for novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-03 V. A. Yampol'skii , S. S. Apostolov , Z. A. Maizelis , Alex Levchenko , Franco Nori

We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

Nonuniform strain in graphene acts as a valley-dependent gauge field, generating pseudomagnetic fields (PMFs) that mimic real magnetic fields but preserve global time-reversal symmetry. While local probes have visualized such fields, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Divya Sahani , Sunit Das , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Agarwal , Aveek Bid

Variable-field Hall measurements were performed on epitaxial graphene grown on Si-face and C-face SiC. The carrier transport involves essentially a single-type of carrier in few-layer graphene, regardless of SiC face. However, in…

The transport properties of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) at quantizing magnetic fields are investigated. Devices patterned perpendicularly to SiC terraces clearly exhibit bilayer inclusions distributed along the substrate step edges. We…

The quantum Hall effect is a remarkable manifestation of quantized transport in a two-dimensional electron gas. Given its technological relevance, it is important to understand its development in realistic nanoscale devices. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 I. J. Vera-Marun , P. J. Zomer , A. Veligura , M. H. D. Guimarães , L. Visser , N. Tombros , H. J. van Elferen , U. Zeitler , B. J. van Wees

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

Recent transport measurements on thin graphite films grown on SiC show large coherence lengths and anomalous integer quantum Hall effects expected for isolated graphene sheets. This is the case eventhough the layer-substrate epitaxy of…

Quantum Hall effect (QHE) devices based on epitaxial graphene films grown on SiC were fabricated and studied for development of the QHE resistance standard. The graphene-metal contacting area in the Hall devices has been improved and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-09 S. Novikov , N. Lebedeva , K. Pierz , A. Satrapinski

We predict unusual (for non-relativistic quantum mechanics) electron states in graphene, which are localized within a finite-width potential barrier. The density of localized states in the sufficiently high and/or wide graphene barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-11 V. A. Yampol'skii , S. E. Savel'ev , Franco Nori

Theoretical investigation of Dirac electrons in electrically modulated graphene under perpendicular magnetic field B is presented. We have carried out a detailed study of modulation effect on Dirac electrons, which determine its electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 M Arsalan Ali

The proposals for realizing exotic particles through coupling of quantum Hall effect to superconductivity involve spatially non-uniform magnetic fields. As a step toward that goal, we study, both theoretically and experimentally, a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Jonathan Schirmer , Ravi Kumar , Vivas Bagwe , Pratap Raychaudhuri , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , C. -X. Liu , Anindya Das , J. K. Jain

We studied the magneto-transport properties of graphene prepared by exfoliation on a III V semiconductor substrate. Tuneability of the carrier density of graphene was achieved by using a doped GaAs substrate as a back-gate. A GaAs/AlAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 Mirosław Woszczyna , Miriam Friedemann , Klaus Pierz , Thomas Weimann , Franz J. Ahlers

Strongly correlated electron liquids which occur in quantizing magnetic fields reveal a cornucopia of fascinating quantum phenomena such as fractionally charged quasiparticles, anyonic statistics, topological order, and many others. Probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 D. A. Abanin , I. Skachko , X. Du , E. Y. Andrei , L. S. Levitov

Quantum Hall effect in 1,2-layer graphene is analyzed. The transverse and longitudinal resistivity are found to be universal functions of the filling factor and temperature. At fixed magnetic field mode the magneto-transport problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 M. V. Cheremisin

The analytical expressions for both diagonal and off-diagonal ac and dc conductivities of graphene placed in an external magnetic field are derived. These conductivities exhibit rather unusual behavior as functions of frequency, chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov

We have investigated the magnetoresistance of lithographically prepared single-layer graphene nanoribbons in pulsed, perpendicular magnetic fields up to 60 T and performed corresponding transport simulations using a tight-binding model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 S. Minke , S. H. Jhang , J. Wurm , Y. Skourski , J. Wosnitza , C. Strunk , D. Weiss , K. Richter , J. Eroms

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We report the first observation of the quantum Hall effect in epitaxial graphene. The result described in the submitted manuscript fills the yawning gap in the understanding of the electronic properties of this truly remarkable material and…