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Klein tunneling and conductance for Dirac fermions in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene (ABC-TLG) through symmetric and asymmetric double potential barriers are investigated using the two and six-band continuum model. Numerical results for our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

Graphene nanoribbon quantum dot qubits have been proposed as promising candidates for quantum computing applications to overcome the spin-decoherence problems associated with typical semiconductor (e.g. GaAs) quantum dot qubits. We perform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Chih-Chieh Chen , Yia-Chung Chang

We show that the feature of Klein tunneling makes graphene a unique interface for implementing low control quantum gates between static and mobile qubits. A ballistic electron spin is considered as the mobile qubit, while the static qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 G. Cordourier-Maruri , Y. Omar , R. de Coss , S. Bose

We study the electronic transport through np and npn junctions for AAA-stacked trilayer graphene. Two kinds of gates are considered where the first is a single gate and the second is a double gate. After obtaining the solutions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Abdelhadi Bahaoui , Hocine Bahlouli

We show that a planar array of bipolar waveguides in graphene can be used to engineer gapped and tilted two-dimensional Dirac cones within the electronic band structure. The presence of these gapped and tilted Dirac cones is demonstrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 A. Wild , R. R. Hartmann , E. Mariani , M. E. Portnoi

We study the transmission probability of Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our system made of two triangular potential barrier regions separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We study Klein tunneling in polariton graphene. We show that the photonic spin-orbit coupling associated with the energy splitting between TE and TM photonic modes can be described as an emergent gauge field. It suppresses the Klein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Dmitry Solnyshkov , Anton Nalitov , Berihu Teklu , Louis Franck , Guillaume Malpuech

We consider electrostatically coupled quantum dots in topological insulators, otherwise confined and gapped by a magnetic texture. By numerically solving the (2+1) Dirac equation for the wave packet dynamics, we extract the energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Christian Ertler , Martin Raith , Jaroslav Fabian

We present a technique to fabricate tunnel junctions between graphene and Al and Cu, with a Si back gate, as well as a simple theory of tunneling between a metal and graphene. We map the differential conductance of our junctions versus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 C. E. Malec , D. Davidovic

We study forward scattering of 2D massless Dirac electrons at Fermi energy {\varepsilon} > 0 in single layer graphene through a 1D rectangular barrier of height {u_0} in the presence of uniform Rashba spin-orbit coupling (of strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Y. Avishai , Y. B. Band

As a result of the Hund's coupling, the band structure of the conducting electrons in the skyrmion crystal (SkX) shares similar topological properties with that of graphene, such as its cone-like shape, nonzero band Chern number, edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Jianhua Gong , Rui Zhu

Klein tunneling is a counterintuitive quantum-mechanical phenomenon, predicting perfect transmission of relativistic particles through higher energy barriers. This phenomenon was shown to be supported at normal incidence in graphene due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Lea Sirota

Based on the standard tight-binding model of the graphene $\pi$-band electronic structure, the extended H\"uckel model for the adsorbate and graphene carbon atoms, and spin splittings estimated from density functional theory (DFT), the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alireza Saffarzadeh , George Kirczenow

Based on the transmission coefficient of tunneling electrons, we have presented tunneling current and conductivity across a square-potential barrier for both graphene and $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattices under a linearly-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete

Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of a normally incident relativistic particle through an energy barrier, has been tested in various electronic, photonic, and phononic systems. Its potential in guiding and filtering classical waves…

We theoretically investigate the spectrum of a single electron double quantum dot, defined by top gates in a graphene with a substrate induced gap. We examine the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the spectrum of localized states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Martin Raith , Christian Ertler , Peter Stano , Michael Wimmer , Jaroslav Fabian

Scattering of a 2D Dirac electrons on a rectangular matrix potential barrier is considered using the formalism of spinor transfer matrices. It is shown, in particular, that in the absence of the mass term, the Klein tunneling is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder , M. A. Khan , Michael N. Leuenberger

The characteristics of tunnel junctions formed between n- and p-doped graphene are investigated theoretically. The single-particle tunnel current that flows between the two-dimensional electronic states of the graphene (2D-2D tunneling) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. M. Feenstra , Debdeep Jena , Gong Gu

We use the Dirac continuum model to study the propagation of electronic wave packets in graphene with periodically arranged circular potential steps. The time propagation of the wave packets are calculated using the split-operator method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 M. M. Suleimanov , M. U. Nosirov , H. T. Yusupov , A. Chaves , G. R. Berdiyorov , Kh. Yu. Rakhimov

We study the interplay of Klein tunneling (= interband tunneling) between n-doped and p-doped regions in graphene and Andreev reflection (= electron-hole conversion) at a superconducting electrode. The tunneling conductance of an n-p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-10 A. Ossipov , M. Titov , C. W. J. Beenakker