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The quasi-2D electrons in graphene behave as massless fermions obeying a Dirac-Weyl equation in the low-energy regime near the two Fermi points. The stability of spin-polarized phases (SPP) in graphene is considered. The exchange energy is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

We study alpha, beta, and gamma graphyne, a class of graphene allotropes with carbon triple bonds, using a first-principles density-functional method and tight-binding calculation. We find that graphyne has versatile Dirac cones and it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Bog G. Kim , Hyoung Joon Choi

We present an atomic-resolution observation and analysis of graphene constrictions and ribbons with sub-nanometer width. Graphene membranes are studied by imaging side spherical aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy at 80…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-20 A. Chuvilin , J. C. Meyer , G. Algara-Siller , U. Kaiser

The chiral Hamiltonian for twisted graphene bilayers is written as a $2\times2$ matrix operator by a renormalization of the Hamiltonian that takes into account the particle-hole symmetry. This results in an effective Hamiltonian with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Gerardo G. Naumis , Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Enrique Aguilar-Méndez , Abdiel Espinosa-Champo

Recent successes in manufacturing of atomically thin graphite samples (graphene) have stimulated intense experimental and theoretical activity. The key feature of graphene is the massless Dirac type of low-energy electron excitations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

We show how the two-dimensional Dirac oscillator model can describe some properties of electrons in graphene. This model explains the origin of the left-handed chirality observed for charge carriers in monolayer and bilayer graphene. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 C. Quimbay , P. Strange

We review the rigorous work on many Fermions models which lead to the first constructions of interacting Fermi liquids in two dimensions, and allowed to prove that there are different scaling regimes in two dimensions, depending on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 Vincent Rivasseau

Optical properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions are considered by the formalism of pseudospin precession equations which provides an easy and natural semiphenomenological way to include correlation effects. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 M. I. Katsnelson

We characterize the carrier density profile of the ground state of graphene in the presence of particle-particle interaction and random charged impurity for zero gate voltage. We provide detailed analysis on the resulting spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 M. N. Najafi , M. Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi

Laterally localized electronic states are identified on a single layer of graphene on ruthenium. The individual states are separated by 3 nm and comprise regions of about 90 carbon atoms. This constitutes a quantum dot array, evidenced by…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-08 H. G. Zhang , H. Hu , Y. Pan , J. H. Mao , M. Gao , H. M. Guo , S. X. Du , T. Greber , H. -J. Gao

The $\pi$-electronic structure of graphene in the presence of a modulated electric potential is investigated by the tight-binding model. The low-energy electronic properties are strongly affected by the period and field strength. Such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Ho , Y. H. Chiu , S. J. Tsai , M. F. Lin

Graphene is a truly two-dimensional atomic crystal with exceptional electronic and mechanical properties. Whereas conventional bulk and thin-film materials have been studied extensively, the key mechanical properties of graphene, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-25 Dipanjan Sen , Kostya S. Novoselov , Pedro M. Reis , Markus J. Buehler

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

It was shown in PHYSICAL REVIEW B 92, 085409 (2015) that the dynamics of a pair of electrons in graphene can be mapped onto that of a single particle with negative effective mass, leading to bound states of positive energy despite the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 L. L. Marnham , A. V. Shytov

Cyclotron resonance in bilayer graphene is studied with weak electron-hole asymmetry, suggested by experiment, taken into account and with the focus on many-body corrections that evade Kohn's theorem. It is shown by direct calculation that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Shizuya

We address the puzzling weak-coupling perturbative behavior of graphene interaction effects as manifested experimentally, in spite of the effective fine structure constant being large, by calculating the effect of Coulomb interactions on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Johannes Hofmann , Edwin Barnes , S. Das Sarma

We provide a thorough study of a carbon divacancy, a fundamental but almost unexplored point defect in graphene. Low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging of irradiated graphene on different substrates enabled us to…

The aim of this work is to study the electron transport in graphene with impurities by introducing a generalization of linear response theory for linear dispersion relations and spinor wave functions. Current response and density response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Paula Jasen , Estela Gonzalez , Alfredo Juan

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