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We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

We study the effect exerted by the electrons on the flexural phonons in graphene, accounting for the attractive interaction created by the exchange of electron-hole excitations. Combining the self-consistent computation of the phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 Pablo San-Jose , Jose González , Francisco Guinea

The amplitude V_0 of unidirectional periodic potential modulation introduced by a surface grating into a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed at AlGaAs/GaAs heterointerface is measured as a function of electron density n_e by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Endo , Yasuhiro Iye

Graphene, a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms ruled by tight-binding interaction, exhibits extraordinary electronic properties due to the presence of Dirac cones within its band structure. These intriguing singularities have naturally…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 S. Yves , F. Lemoult , M. Fink , G. Lerosey

We develop a theory of nonlinear response to an electric field of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) placed in a classically strong magnetic field. The latter leads to a non-linear current-voltage characteristic at a relatively weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-25 M. G. Vavilov , I. L. Aleiner , L. I. Glazman

Electron scattering in the monolayer graphene with short-range impurities modelled by the annular well with a band-asymmetric potential has been considered. Band-asymmetry of the potential resulted in the mass (gap) perturbation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

Motivated by recent proposals on strain-engineering of graphene electronic circuits we calculate conductivity, shot-noise and the density of states in periodically deformed graphene. We provide the solution to the Dirac-Kronig-Penney model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 S. Gattenloehner , W. Belzig , M. Titov

Classical thermal transport theories that preserve rotational symmetry, predict strong anharmonic scattering of out-of-plane lattice vibrational modes called flexural phonons in flat suspended graphene sheets. Such strong scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Navaneetha K. Ravichandran

The electronic and vibrational properties of 2D materials are dramatically altered by the formation of a moir\'e superlattice. The lowest-energy phonon modes of the superlattice are two acoustic branches (called phasons) that describe the…

The resonance modes and the related effects to the transmission of elastic waves in a two dimensional phononic crystal formed by periodic arrangements of a two blocks unit cell in one direction are studied. The unit cell consists of two…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongwei Gu , Xudong Luo , Hongru Ma

We present a detailed calculation of intensities of two-phonon and four-phonon Raman peaks in graphene. Writing the low-energy hamiltonian of the interaction of electrons with the crystal vibrations and the electromagnetic field from pure…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 D. M. Basko

Graphene bilayer systems are known to exhibit a band gap when the layer symmetry is broken, by applying a perpendicular electric field. The resulting band structure resembles that of a conventional semiconductor with a parabolic dispersion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Søren Schou Gregersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

$\mathrm{\beta}$-Gallium oxide ($\mathrm{\beta\mbox{-}Ga_{2}O_{3}}$) is an emerging widebandgap semiconductor for potential application in power and RF electronics applications. Initial theoretical calculation on a 2-dimensional electron…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Avinash Kumar , Uttam Singisetti

It is proved that the acoustic-type dispersion of bending mode in graphene is generated by the fluctuation interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane terms in the free energy arising with account of non-linear components in the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 V. M. Adamyan , V. N. Bondarev , V. V. Zavalniuk

A theoretical prediction of the spin-dependent electron self-energy and in-plane transport of a two-dimensional electron gas in proximity with a ferromagnetic gate is presented. The application of the predicted spin-dependent properties is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Ciuti , J. P. McGuire , L. J. Sham

We derive electronic tight-binding Hamiltonians for strained graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides based on Wannier transformation of {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations. Our microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Shiang Fang , Stephen Carr , Miguel A. Cazalilla , Efthimios Kaxiras

We demonstrate that single-layer graphene in the presence of a metal gate displays a gapless collective (plasmon) mode that has a linear dispersion at long wavelengths. We calculate exactly the acoustic-plasmon group velocity at the level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 A. Principi , Reza Asgari , Marco Polini

We report an experimental Raman study of few-layer graphene after chemical doping achieved by a plasma process in CHF$_3$ gas. A systematic reduction of both the splitting and the area of the 2D band is observed with increasing the doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-07 Matteo Bruna , Stefano Borini

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

We develop an effective medium approach to characterize the propagation of matter waves in periodic structures, such as graphene or semiconductor superlattices. It is proven that the time evolution of the states that are not more localized…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Mario Silveirinha , Nader Engheta