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We show through both theoretical arguments and numerical calculations that graphene discerns an unconventional sequence of quantized Hall conductivity, when subject to both magnetic fields (B) and strain. The latter produces time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bitan Roy , Zi-Xiang Hu , Kun Yang

Massless Dirac electrons in graphene fill Landau levels with energies scaled as square roots of their numbers. Coulomb interaction between electrons leads to mixing of different Landau levels. The relative strength of this interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Yu. E. Lozovik , A. A. Sokolik

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene strongly depend on relative orientation of the two atomic lattices. Whereas Bernal-stacked graphene is most commonly studied, a rotational mismatch between layers opens up a whole new field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hennrik Schmidt , Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Rolf J. Haug

In this work we study theoretically the electronic properties of a sheet of graphene grown on a periodic heterostructure substrate. We write an effective Dirac equation, which includes a dependence of both the band gap and the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-12 Jonas R. F. Lima , F. Moraes

Graphene is a powerful playground for studying a plethora of quantum phenomena. One of the remarkable properties of graphene arises when it is strained in particular geometries and the electrons behave as if they were under the influence of…

In graphene, long-wavelength deformations that result in elastic shear strain couple to the low-energy Dirac electrons as pseudogauge fields. Using a scalable tight-binding model, we consider analogs to magnetotransport in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Christophe De Beule , Jia-Tong Shi , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Denis Kochan , Klaus Richter , Ming-Hao Liu

We investigate the electronic eigenstates of graphene quantum dots of realistic size (i.e., up to 80 nm diameter) in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B. Numerical tight-binding calculations and Coulomb-blockade measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-09 F. Libisch , S. Rotter , J. Güttinger , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer

This paper concerns the asymmetric transport associated with a low-energy interface Dirac model of graphene-type materials subject to external magnetic and electric fields. We show that the relevant physical observable, an interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Solomon Quinn , Guillaume Bal

We study the transmission probability of Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our system made of two triangular potential barrier regions separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

The low energy effective field model for the multilayer graphene (at ABC stacking) is considered. We calculate the effective action in the presence of constant external magnetic field $B$ (normal to the graphene sheet). We also calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 M. I. Katsnelson , G. E. Volovik , M. A. Zubkov

Electrons on a square lattice with half a flux quantum per plaquette are considered. An effective description for the current loops is given by a two-dimensional Dirac theory with random mass. It is shown that the conductivity and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Ziegler

We report on high-field magnetotransport (B up to 35 T) on a gated superlattice based on single-layer graphene aligned on top of hexagonal boron nitride. The large-period moir\'e modulation (15 nm) enables us to access the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 S. Pezzini , S. Wiedmann , A. Mishchenko , M. Holwill , R. Gorbachev , D. Ghazaryan , K. S. Novoselov , U. Zeitler

Charge carriers of graphene show neutrino-like linear energy dispersions as well as chiral behavior near the Dirac point. Here we report highly unusual and unexpected behaviors of these carriers in applied external periodic potentials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-04 Cheol-Hwan Park , Li Yang , Young-Woo Son , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

We study the density of states and localization properties of the lowest Landau levels of graphene at high magnetic fields. We focus on the effects caused by correlated long-range hopping disorder, which, in exfoliated graphene, is induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 A. L. C. Pereira , C. H. Lewenkopf , E. R. Mucciolo

The electronic spectrum of three coupled graphene layers (graphene trilayers) is investigated in the presence of an external magnetic field. We obtain analytical expressions for the Landau level spectrum for both the ABA and ABC - type of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-06 J. M. Pereira , S. H. R. Sena , F. M. Peeters , G. A. Farias

The electronic properties of a bricklayer model, which shares the same topology as the hexagonal lattice of graphene, are investigated numerically. We study the influence of random magnetic-field disorder in addition to a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 L. Schweitzer , P. Markos

Graphene superlattices (GSLs), formed by subjecting a monolayer graphene sheet to a periodic potential, can be used to engineer band structures and, from there, charge transport properties, but these are sensitive to the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Qifang Zhao , Jiangbin Gong , Cord A. Mueller

The density of states and differential entropy per particle are analyzed for Dirac-like electrons in graphene subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field. For comparison, the derived density of states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Andrii A. Chaika , Yelizaveta Kulynych , D. O. Oriekhov , Sergei G. Sharapov

We analyze a gap equation for the propagator of Dirac quasiparticles and conclude that in graphene in a magnetic field, the order parameters connected with the quantum Hall ferromagnetism dynamics and those connected with the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky

In inhomogeneously strained graphene, low-energy electrons experience a valley-antisymmetric pseudo-magnetic field which leads to the formation of localized states at the edge between the valence and conduction bands, understood in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 Diana A. Gradinar , Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko