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The phase space for graphene's minimum conductivity $\sigma_\mathrm{min}$ is mapped out using Landauer theory modified for scattering using Fermi's Golden Rule, as well as the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulation with a Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Redwan N. Sajjad , Frank Tseng , K. M. Masum Habib , Avik W. Ghosh

We study transport properties of graphene nanostructures consisted of alternating slabs of gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of piecewise constant external potential equal to zero in the gapless regions. The transmission through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. S. Azarova , G. M. Maksimova

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

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

The conductance and the Fano factor in a graphene sheet in the ballistic regime are calculated. The electrostatic potential in the sheet is modeled by a trapezoid barrier, which allows to use the exact solution of the Dirac equation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. B. Sonin

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

By means of the first-principles calculations combined with the tight-binding approximation, the strain-induced semiconductor-semimetal transition in graphdiyne is discovered. It is shown that the band gap of graphdiyne increases from 0.47…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Hui-Juan Cui , Xian-Lei Sheng , Qing-Bo Yan , Qing-Rong Zheng , Gang Su

We solve the Dirac equation, which describes charge massless chiral relativistic carriers in a two-dimensional graphene. We have identified and analysed a novel pseudospin-dependent scattering effect. We compute the tunneling conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Dima Bolmatov , D. V. Zavialov

We investigate in some detail the structure of the electromagnetic current density for the pseudo-relativistic massless spinor effective model for graphene. It is shown that the pseudo-relativistic massless Dirac field theory in {\em 2+1}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Giacconi , Roberto Soldati

We investigate superconductivity in strain-engineered graphene using a self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach. Challenging the paradigm that the high density of states in flat bands universally enhances pairing, we identify a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-14 Tao Zhou

We investigate the organized formation of strain, ripples and suspended features in macroscopic CVD-prepared graphene sheets transferred onto a corrugated substrate made of an ordered arrays of silica pillars of variable geometries.…

A ballistic strip of graphene (width W>> length L) connecting two normal metal contacts is known to have a minimum conductivity of 4e^{2}/pi h at the Dirac point of charge neutrality. We calculate what happens if one of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general expression of frequency and wave-vector dependent polarizability within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tao Zhu , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang

We calculate the mode-dependent transmission probability of massless Dirac fermions through an ideal strip of graphene (length L, width W, no impurities or defects), to obtain the conductance and shot noise as a function of Fermi energy. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Tworzydlo , B. Trauzettel , M. Titov , A. Rycerz , C. W. J. Beenakker

Disordered Fermi-Dirac distributions are used to model, within a straightforward and essentially phenomenological Boltzmann equation approach, the electron/hole transport across graphene puddles. We establish, with striking experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Moriconi , D. Niemeyer

We examine strain-induced quantized Landau levels in graphene. Specifically, arc-bend strains are found to cause nonuniform pseudomagnetic fields. Using an effective Dirac model which describes the low-energy physics around the nodal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Yichen Chang , Tameem Albash , Stephan Haas

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

The electronic implications of strain in graphene can be captured at low energies by means of pseudovector potentials which can give rise to pseudomagnetic fields. These strain-induced vector potentials arise from the local perturbation to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Alexander L. Kitt , Vitor M. Pereira , Anna K. Swan , Bennett B. Goldberg

A model of a superlattice consisting of alternating strips of single-layer and bilayer graphene is proposed, whose parameters of the energy spectrum can be controlled by changing the external electric field perpendicular to the surface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 V. L. Abdrakhmanov , P. V. Badikova D. V. Zav'yalov , V. I. Konchenkov , S. V. Kryuchkov

We investigate the electromechanical coupling in 2d materials. For non-Bravais lattices, we find important corrections to the standard macroscopic strain - microscopic atomic-displacement theory. We put forward a general and systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Daniel Midtvedt , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Alexander Croy