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The statistical properties of the carrier density profile of graphene in the ground state in the presence particle-particle interaction and random charged impurity in zero gate voltage has been recently obtained by Najafi \textit{et al.}…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-18 M. N. Najafi , N. Ahadpour , J. Cheraghalizadeh , H. Dashti-Naserabadi

Using low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we map the local density of states (LDOS) of graphene quantum dots supported on Ir(111). Due to a band gap in the projected Ir band structure around the graphene K point, the electronic…

We consider confinement of Dirac fermions in $AB$-stacked bilayer graphene by inhomogeneous on-site interactions, (pseudo-)magnetic field or inter-layer interaction. Working within the framework of four-band approximation, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Vít Jakubský , Kevin Zelaya

Starting from the graphene lattice tight-binding Hamiltonian with an on-site U and long-range Coulomb repulsion, we derive an interacting continuum Dirac theory governing the low-energy behavior of graphene in an applied magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Dirac energy-dispersions are responsible of the extraordinary transport properties of graphene. This motivated the quest for engineering such energy dispersions also in photonics, where they have been predicted to lead to many exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Erik P. Navarro-Barón , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Alejandro González-Tudela

When an electron is confined to a triangular atomic thick layer of graphene [1-5] with zig-zag edges, its energy spectrum collapses to a shell of degenerate states at the Fermi level (Dirac point) [6-9]. The degeneracy is proportional to…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 A. D. Guclu , P. Potasz , O. Voznyy , M. Korkusinski , P. Hawrylak

Multilayer graphene lattices allow for an additional tunability of the band structure by the strong perpendicular electric field. In particular, the emergence of the new multiple Dirac points in ABA stacked trilayer graphene subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Peng Rao , Maksym Serbyn

Rotated graphene multilayers form a new class of graphene related systems with electronic properties that drastically depend on the rotation angles. It has been shown that bilayers behave like two isolated graphene planes for large rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 G. Trambly de Laissardière , D. Mayou , L. Magaud

It has been shown in a recent study [Nguyen et al., Nanotechnol. \textbf{25}, 165201 (2014)] that unstrained/strained graphene junctions are promising candidates to improve the performance of graphene transistors that is usually hindered by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Mai Chung Nguyen , Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

Guided by the analogy to Mie scattering of light on small particles we show that the propagation of a Dirac-electron wave in graphene can be manipulated by a circular gated region acting as a quatum dot. Large dots enable electron lensing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. L. Heinisch , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

It is generally believed that the inter-edge coupling destroys the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect along with the gap opening at the Dirac points. Using first-principles calculations, we find that the quantized edge transport persists in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Yuanchang Li

A mathematical formulation for particle states and electronic properties of a curved graphene sheet is provided, exploiting a massless Dirac spectrum description for charge carriers living in a curved bidimensional background. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-11 Antonio Gallerati

We consider resonant scatterers with large scattering cross-sections in graphene that are produced by a gated disk or a vacancy, and show that a gated ring can be engineered to produce an efficient electron cloak. We also demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Diego Oliver , Jose H. Garcia , Tatiana G. Rappoport , N. M. R. Peres , Felipe A. Pinheiro

Interaction of graphene with a defect layer of a 1D defective photonic structure correspondingly could open a Dirac gap in its nonlinear energy dispersion. Also, an excitonic gap could be created upon applied strong magnetic fields at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Dariush Jahani

The low energy continuum limit of graphene is effectively known to be modeled using Dirac equation in (2+1) dimensions. We consider the possibility of using modulated high frequency periodic driving of a two-dimension system (optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Tridev Mishra , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

Theory predicts that graphene under uniaxial compressive strain in an armchair direction should undergo a topological phase transition from a semimetal into an insulator. Due to the change of the hopping integrals under compression, both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 J. Feilhauer , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

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

A theory of electron states for graphene nanoribbons with a smoothly varying width is developed. It is demonstrated that the standard adiabatic approximation allowing to neglect the mixing of different standing waves is more restrictive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson

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