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Our previous results on the nonperturbative calculations of the mean current and of the energy-momentum tensor in QED with the T-constant electric field are generalized to arbitrary dimensions. The renormalized mean values are found; the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-24 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , N. Yokomizo

A spatially modulated Dirac gap in a graphene sheet leads to charge confinement, thus enabling a graphene quantum dot to be formed without the application of external electric and magnetic fields [Appl. Phys. Lett. \textbf{97}, 243106…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Giavaras , Franco Nori

The electronic density of states of graphene is equivalent to that of relativistic electrons. In the absence of disorder or external doping the Fermi energy lies at the Dirac point where the density of states vanishes. Although transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , J. H. Smet , K. von Klitzing , A. Yacoby

Applying large strain in zigzag direction, gapless graphene may turns into gapped graphene at the critical strain. The energy gap between valence and conduction bands is created above the critical deformation. We theoretically predict that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 Bumned Soodchomshom

We investigate the conductivity of graphene sheet deformed over a gate. The effect of the deformation on the conductivity is twofold: The lattice distortion can be represented as pseudovector potential in the Dirac equation formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Medvedyeva , Ya. M. Blanter

Based on the recently developed picture of an electronic ideal relativistic fluid at the Dirac point, we present an analytical model for the conductivity in graphene that is able to describe the linear dependence on the carrier density and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

A novel type of one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal formed by the array of periodically located stacks of alternating graphene and dielectric stripes embedded into a background dielectric medium is proposed. The wave equation for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

We study the electronic transport in a graphene-based superconductor-normal(graphene)-superconductor (SNS) junction by use of the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation. We consider the properties of tunneling conductance through an undoped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous in polycrystalline graphene materials obtained by various growth methods. It has been shown previously that considerable electrical transport gap can be opened by grain boundaries. On the other hand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 S. Bala Kumar , Jing Guo

Using the variable phase method, we reformulate the Dirac equation governing the charge carriers in graphene into a nonlinear first-order differential equation from which we can treat both confined-state problems in electron waveguides and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 D. A. Stone , C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

In the present work, we investigate how structural defects in graphene can change its transport properties. In particular, we show that breaking of the sublattice symmetry in a graphene monolayer overcomes the Klein effect, leading to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Popovici , O. Oliveira , W. de Paula , T. Frederico

We investigate the photoconductivity of graphene within the relaxation time approximation. In presence of the inter-band transitions induced by the linearly polarized light the photoconductivity turns out to be highly anisotropic due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-18 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

The unusual transport properties of graphene are the direct consequence of a peculiar bandstructure near the Dirac point. We determine the shape of the pi bands and their characteristic splitting, and the transition from a pure 2D to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Taisuke Ohta , Aaron Bostwick , J. L. McChesney , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Eli Rotenberg

The discovery of correlated phases in twisted moir\'e superlattices accelerated the search for low-dimensional materials with exotic properties. A promising approach uses engineered substrates to strain the material. However, designing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Md Tareq Mahmud , Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

We address the tunneling current in a graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructure as function of the twisting between the crystals. The twisting induces a modulation of the hopping amplitude between the graphene layers, that provides the extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Luis Brey

The chapter generalizes results on influence of uniaxial strain and adsorption on the electron states and charge transport or localization in graphene with different configurations of imperfections (point defects): resonant (neutral)…

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductors are exotic phases of matter with fascinating properties, which are, however, encountered rather sparsely. Here we identify the possibility of realizing such a superconducting ground state that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

Two-dimensional carbon, or graphene, is a semi-metal that presents unusual low-energy electronic excitations described in terms of Dirac fermions. We analyze in a self-consistent way the effects of localized (impurities or vacancies) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

Networks of graphene-based topological domain walls function as nano-scale interferometers of zero-line modes, with magnetic field and(or) scalar potential as the controlling parameters. In the absence of externally applied magnetic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ma Luo

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng