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We analyze the dissipative conductance of the zero-plateau quantum Hall state appearing in undoped graphene in strong magnetic fields. Charge transport in this state is assumed to be carried by a magnetic domain wall, which forms by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig , G. Venketeswara Pai

We develop a long wavelength approximation in order to describe the low-energy states of carbon nanotubes in a transverse magnetic field. We show that, in the limit where the square of the magnetic length $l = \sqrt{\hbar c /e B}$ is much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Perfetto , J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Employing the low-energy effective theory alongside a combination of analytical and numerical techniques, we explore the Landau level collapse phenomenon, uncovering previously undisclosed features. We consider both finite-width graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. A. Herasymchuk , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

We show that, when graphene is subjected to an appropriate one-dimensional external periodic potential, additional branches of massless fermions are generated with nearly the same electron-hole crossing energy as that at the original Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Cheol-Hwan Park , Young-Woo Son , Li Yang , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

We have realized an integer quantum Hall system with superconducting contacts by connecting graphene to niobium electrodes. Below their upper critical field of 4 tesla, an integer quantum Hall effect coexists with superconductivity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Peter Rickhaus , Markus Weiss , Laurent Marot , Christian Schönenberger

Bilayer graphene in a magnetic field supports eight zero-energy Landau levels, which, as a tunable band gap develops, split into two nearly-degenerate quartets separated by the band gap. A close look is made into the properties of such an…

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

A zigzag edge of a graphene nanoribbon supports localized zero modes, ignoring interactions. Based mainly on mean field arguments and numerical approaches, it has been suggested that interactions can produce a large magnetic moment on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hamed Karimi , Ian Affleck

Quantum electron transport in side-gated graphene Hall bars is investigated in the presence of quantizing external magnetic fields. The asymmetric potential of four side-gates distorts the otherwise flat bands of the relativistic Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 M. D. Petrović , F. M. Peeters

In the anomalous quantum Hall effect (QHE), a hallmark of graphene, nature of the edge states in magnetic fields poses an important question, since the edge and bulk should be intimately related in QHE. Here we have theoretically studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-01 Mitsuhiro Arikawa , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

Spin splitting of the energy spectrum of single-layer graphene on Au/Ni(111) substrate has been recently reported. I show that eigenstates of spin-orbit coupled graphene are polarized in-plane and perpendicular to electron momentum $\bf k$;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Emmanuel I. Rashba

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

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

Magneto-transport experiments on ABC-stacked suspended trilayer graphene reveal a complete splitting of the twelve-fold degenerated lowest Landau level, and, in particular, the opening of an exchange-driven gap at the charge neutrality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 H. J. van Elferen , A. Veligura , N. Tombros , E. V. Kurganova , B. J. van Wees , J. C. Maan , U. Zeitler

The most celebrated property of the quantum spin Hall effect is the presence of spin-polarized counter-propagating edge states. This novel edge state configuration has also been predicted to occur in graphene when spin-split electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Patrick Maher , Cory R. Dean , Andrea F. Young , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kenneth L. Shepard , James Hone , Philip Kim

We report on robust features of the longitudinal conductivity ($\sigma_{xx}$) of the graphene zero-energy Landau level in presence of disorder and varying magnetic fields. By mixing an Anderson disorder potential with a low density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Frank Ortmann , Stephan Roche

The electron-electron interaction in the Landau levels of bilayer graphene is markedly different from that of conventional semiconductors such as GaAs. We show that in the zeroth Landau level of bilayer graphene, in the orbital which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-15 Ajit C. Balram

In the presence of the Hubbard interaction, graphene zigzag nanoribbons have spontaneous edge magnetism with anti-parallel configuration, whose amplitude can be tuned by a transversal electric field. As the electric field increases or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ma Luo

In a magnetic field bilayer graphene supports an octet of zero-energy Landau levels with an extra twofold degeneracy in Landau orbitals n=0 and n=1. It is shown that this orbital degeneracy is lifted due to Coulombic quantum fluctuations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 K. Shizuya

The zeroth Landau level (0LL) in graphene has emerged as a flat-band platform in which distinct many-body phases can be explored with unprecedented control by simply tuning the strength and/or direction of magnetic fields1-22. A rich set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Qi Zheng , Mo-Han Zhang , Ya-Ning Ren , Lin He

We report on the observation of periodic conductance oscillations near quantum Hall plateaus in suspended graphene nanoribbons. They are attributed to single quantum dots that form in the narrowest part of the ribbon, in the valleys and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 E. Tóvári , P. Makk , P. Rickhaus , C. Schönenberger , S. Csonka