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We develop a theory of interaction effects in graphene superlattices, where tunable superlattice periodicity can be used as a knob to control the gap at the Dirac point. Applied to graphene on hexa-boron-nitride (G/h-BN), our theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Justin C. W. Song , Andrey V. Shytov , Leonid S. Levitov

We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Jonas R. F. Lima

The low-energy excitations of graphene are relativistic massless Dirac fermions with opposite chiralities at valleys K and K'. Breaking the chiral symmetry could lead to gap opening in analogy to dynamical mass generation in particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Changhua Bao , Hongyun Zhang , Teng Zhang , Xi Wu , Laipeng Luo , Shaohua Zhou , Qian Li , Yanhui Hou , Wei Yao , Liwei Liu , Pu Yu , Jia Li , Wenhui Duan , Hong Yao , Yeliang Wang , Shuyun Zhou

The complete theory of electrical conductivity of graphene at arbitrary temperature is developed with taken into account mass-gap parameter and chemical potential. Both the in-plane and out-of-plane conductivities of graphene are expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

We investigate generation of new Dirac cones in graphene under double-periodic and quasiperiodic superlattice potentials. We first show that double-periodic potentials generate the Dirac cones sporadically, following the Diophantine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Masayuki Tashima , Naomichi Hatano

Motivated by the results of recent photoemission and tunneling studies, we discuss potential many-body sources of a finite gap in the Dirac fermion spectrum of graphene. Specifically, we focus on the putative Peierls- and Cooper-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-27 D. V. Khveshchenko

We estimate the strength of interaction-enhanced coherence between two graphene or topological insulator surface-state layers by solving imaginary-axis gap equations in the random phase approximation. Using a self-consistent treatment of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Inti Sodemann , D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

We present a new method of gap control in two-dimensional periodic systems with the perturbation consisting of a second-order differential operator and a family of narrow potential `walls' separating the period cells in on direction. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-10 D. I. Borisov , P. Exner

We investigate the emergence of extra Dirac points in the electronic structure of a periodically spaced barrier system, i.e., a superlattice, on single-layer graphene, using a Dirac-type Hamiltonian. Using square barriers allows us to find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

The two-dimensional Dirac operator describes low-energy excitations in graphene. Different choices for the boundary conditions give rise to qualitative differences in the spectrum of the resulting operator. For a family of boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Rafael D. Benguria , Søren Fournais , Edgardo Stockmeyer , Hanne Van Den Bosch

The study of vacancies in graphene is a topic of growing interest. A single vacancy induces a localized stable charge of order unity interacting with other charges of the conductor through an unscreened Coulomb potential. It also breaks the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Omrie Ovdat , Yaroslav Don , Eric Akkermans

The low energy excitations of graphene can be described by a massless Dirac equation in two spacial dimensions. Curved graphene is proposed to be described by coupling the Dirac equation to the corresponding curved space. This covariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria A. H. Vozmediano , Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo

We investigate the development of a gapped phase in the field theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. In the large-N approximation, we show that the chiral symmetry is only broken below a critical number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 J. Gonzalez

A spatially modulated Dirac gap in a graphene sheet leads to charge confinement, thus enabling a graphene quantum dot to be formed without the application of external electric and magnetic fields [Appl. Phys. Lett. \textbf{97}, 243106…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Giavaras , Franco Nori

The two-dimensional Dirac equation has been widely used in graphene physics, the surface of topological insulators, and especially quantum scarring. Although a numerical approach to tackling an arbitrary confining problem was proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jiale Sun , Xiaoshui Lin

We investigate the reflectance of a dielectric plate coated with a graphene sheet which possesses the nonzero energy gap and chemical potential at any temperature. The general formalism for the reflectance using the polarization tensor is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. S. Malyi , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

We study the optical properties of gapped graphene in presence of a magnetic field. We consider a model based on the Dirac equation, with a gap introduced via a mass term, for which analytical expressions for the diagonal and Hall optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-30 Jesper Goor Pedersen , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Recently a paper of Klimovskikh et al. was published presenting experimental and theoretical analysis of the graphene/Pb/Pt(111) system. The authors investigate the crystallographic and electronic structure of this graphene-based system by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-12 Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

We consider single-layer plane graphene with electronic excitations described by the Dirac equation. Using a known representation of the polarization tensor in terms of the spinor loop we show the existence of surface modes, i.e., of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 M. Bordag

In this paper, we study the massive Dirac equation with the presence of the Morse potential in polar coordinate. The Dirac Hamiltonian is written as two second-order differential equations in terms of two spinor wavefunctions. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Z. Zali , Alireza Amani , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan