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The density of electron-hole pairs produced in a graphene sample immersed in a homogeneous time-dependent electrical field is evaluated. Because low energy charge carriers in graphene are described by relativistic quantum mechanics, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , P. Blain , D. Gagnon , C. Lefebvre , S. MacLean

Graphene is a novel two-dimensional material with fascinating electrodynamic properties like the ability to support collective electron oscillations (plasmons) accompanied by tight confinement of electromagnetic fields. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Marinko Jablan

Graphene, a two-dimensional material with a high mobility and a tunable conductivity, is uniquely suited for plasmonics. The frequency dispersion of plasmons in bulk graphene has been studied both theoretically and experimentally, whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jared H. Strait , Parinita S. Nene , Wei-Min Chan , Christina Manolatou , Joshua W. Kevek , Sandip Tiwari , Paul L. McEuen , Farhan Rana

We study electric dipole effects for massive Dirac fermions in graphene and related materials. The dipole potential accomodates towers of infinitely many bound states exhibiting a universal Efimov-like scaling hierarchy. The dipole moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 A. De Martino , D. Kloepfer , D. Matrasulov , R. Egger

We report on the properties of incompressible states of Dirac fermions in graphene in the presence of anisotropic interactions and a quantizing magnetic field. We introduce the necessary formalism to incorporate the anisotropy in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 V. M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

We consider a screened Coulomb interaction between electrons in graphene and determine their dynamic response functions, such as a longitudinal and a transverse electric conductivity and a polarization function and compare them to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 M. Agarwal , E. G. Mishchenko

Renormalization is one of the basic notions of condensed matter physics. Based on the concept of renormalization, the Landau's {\em Fermi liquid} theory has been able to explain, why despite the presence of Coulomb interactions, the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-06 S. A. Jafari

We show that graphene-dielectric multilayers give rise to an unusual tunability of the Casimir-Lifshitz forces, and allow to easily realize completely different regimes within the same structure. Concerning thermal effects,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Chahine Abbas , Brahim Guizal , Mauro Antezza

We study the quasiparticle properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions when the many-body states possess a finite momentum density in the clean limit. The lack of Galilean invariance endows the many-body states at finite momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Inti Sodemann

We consider quantum pumping of Dirac fermions in a monolayer of graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field in the central pumping region. The two external pump parameters are electrical voltages applied to the graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 Rakesh P. Tiwari , M. Blaauboer

We study the interaction of electrons in graphene with the quantized electromagnetic field in the presence of an applied uniform electric field using the Dirac model of graphene. Electronic states are represented by exact solutions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Yokomizo

We study the Euclidean effective action per unit area and the charge density for a Dirac field in a two--dimensional spatial region, in the presence of a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the 2D--plane, at finite temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Beneventano , Paola Giacconi , E. M. Santangelo , Roberto Soldati

High level of dissipation in normal metals makes challenging development of active and passive plasmonic devices. One possible solution to this problem is to use alternative materials. Graphene is a good candidate for plasmonics in near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Yu. E. Lozovik , I. A. Nechepurenko , A. V. Dorofeenko , E. S. Andrianov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. A Pukhov

The response of an electron system to electromagnetic fields with sharp spatial variations is strongly dependent on quantum electronic properties, even in ambient conditions, but difficult to access experimentally. We use propagating…

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Motivated by the results of recent photoemission and tunneling studies, we discuss potential many-body sources of a finite gap in the Dirac fermion spectrum of graphene. Specifically, we focus on the putative Peierls- and Cooper-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-27 D. V. Khveshchenko

We investigate theoretically the cavity quantum electrodynamics of the cyclotron transition for Dirac fermions in graphene. We show that the ultrastrong coupling regime characterized by a vacuum Rabi frequency comparable or even larger than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 David Hagenmüller , Cristiano Ciuti

In this paper we review, and extend to the non-isothermal case, some results concerning the application of the maximum entropy closure technique to the derivation of hydrodynamic equations for particles with spin-orbit interaction and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Luigi Barletti