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We theoretically demonstrate that a system formed by two coupled graphene sheets enables a negative damping regime wherein graphene plasmons are pumped by a DC current. This effect is triggered by electrons drifting through one of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

At half filling, the electronic structure of graphene can be modelled by a pair of free two-dimensional Dirac fermions. We explicitly demonstrate that in the presence of a geometrically induced gauge field, an everywhere-real Kekule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-18 Jiannis K. Pachos , Michael Stone , Kristan Temme

We consider a model of fragmentation of sheet by cracks that move with a velocity in preferred direction, but undergo random transverse displacements as they move. There is a non-zero probability of crack-splitting, and the split cracks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Deepak Dhar

In single-layer graphene sheets non-local interband exchange leads to a renormalized Fermi-surface effective mass which vanishes in the low carrier-density limit. We report on a comparative study of Fermi surface effective mass…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-29 Giovanni Borghi , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

Theoretical research has predicted that ripples of graphene generates effective gauge field on its low energy electronic structure and could lead to zero-energy flat bands, which are the analog of Landau levels in real magnetic fields. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Lan Meng , Wen-Yu He , Hong Zheng , Mengxi Liu , Hui Yan , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Keke Bai , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

The short wavelength of graphene plasmons relative to the light wavelength makes them attractive for applications in optoelectronics and sensing. However, this property limits their coupling to external light and our ability to create and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Sandra de Vega , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

In a 6D model, where the extra dimensions form a discretised curved disk, we investigate the mass spectra and profiles of gravitons and Dirac fermions. The discretisation is performed in detail leading to a star-like geometry. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Florian Bauer

Graphons are analytic objects associated with convergent sequences of graphs. Problems from extremal combinatorics and theoretical computer science led to a study of graphons determined by finitely many subgraph densities, which are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Roman Glebov , Daniel Kral , Jan Volec

The physics of graphene is acting as a bridge between quantum field theory and condensed matter physics due to the special quality of the graphene quasiparticles behaving as massless two dimensional Dirac fermions. Moreover, the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea

We construct six- and four-dimensional toroidal compactifications of the Type I string with magnetic flux on the D-branes. The open strings in this background probe a noncommutative internal geometry. Phenomenologically appealing features…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ralph Blumenhagen , Lars Goerlich , Boris Kors , Dieter Lust

In this paper we show how it is possible to obtain mass generation in the context of non Abelian gauge field theory, using a non commutative spacetime. This is further confirmed by the modified dispersion relation that results from such a…

General Physics · Physics 2009-02-23 Burra G. Sidharth

Diffusion of point-like non interacting particles in a two-dimensional (2D) channel of varying cross section is considered. The particles are biased by a constant force in the transverse direction. We apply our recurrence mapping procedure,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pavol Kalinay

Biaxial compression of centimetre-scale graphene, freely standing on the surface of water is studied. Within this platform, we report full stress-strain compression of graphene identifying elastic and plastic deformations. The Young's…

Using a lattice equation of state combined with the D-dimensional Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation and the Friedmann equations, we investigate the possibility of the formation of compact objects as well as the time evolution of the scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Benaoumeur Bakhti

Compressed hydrogen passes through a series of layered structures in which the layers can be viewed as distorted graphene sheets. The electronic structures of these layered structures can be understood by studying simple model systems- an…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-22 Ivan I. Naumov , R. E. Cohen , Russell J. Hemley

Effects of a Kekule distortion on exciton instability in single-layer graphene are discussed. In the framework of quantum electrodynamics the mass of the electron generated dynamically is worked out using a Schwinger-Dyson equation. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-22 Raoul Dillenschneider

Based on the Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation, the fermion mass generation is further studied in the D(2<D<4)-dimensional Thirring model as a gauge theory previously proposed. By using a certain approximation to the kernel, we analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Sugiura

Graphene is a monolayer graphitic film in which electrons behave like two-dimensional Dirac fermions without mass. Its study has attracted a wide interest in the domain of condensed matter physics. In particular, it represents an ideal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 William Borrelli , Umberto Morellini

We consider a four-fermion theory as a simple model of dynamical symmetry breaking in flat space with non-trivial topology, motivated from recent studies in similar considerations in curved space. The phase structure is investigated, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 Ken-ichi Ishikawa , Tomohiro Inagaki , Kenji Fukazawa , Kezuhiro Yamamoto

Large photon drag effect of the massless Dirac Fermions in intrinsic graphene is predicted for a graphene-on-plasmonic-layer system. The surface plasmons in the plasmonic layer enlarge the wave number of photon for hundreds of time of that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Ma Luo , Zhibing Li