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Particular strain geometry in graphene could leads to a uniform pseudo-magnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nano-electronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Tony Low , F. Guinea

We propose a directional switching effect in a metallic device. To such end we exploit a graphene-based device with a three-terminal geometry in the presence of a magnetic field. We show that unidirectional charge and valley currents can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 M. Berdakin , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

The achievement of valley-polarized electron currents is a cornerstone for the realization of valleytronic devices. Here, we report on ballistic coherent transport experiments where two opposite quantum point contacts (QPCs) are defined by…

We present a single barrier system to generate pure valley-polarized current in monolayer graphene. A uniaxial strain is applied within the barrier region, which is delineated by localized magnetic field created by ferromagnetic stripes at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Manipulating the valley degree of freedom to encode information for potential valleytronic devices has ignited a new direction in solid-state physics. A significant, fundamental challenge in the field of valleytronics is how to generate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Hui-Ying Mu , Yi-Tong Yao , Jie-Ru Li , Guo-Cai Liu , Chao He , Ying-Jie Sun , Guang Yang , Xing-Tao An , Yong-Zhe Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu

A potential step in a graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is shown to be an intrinsic source of intervalley scattering -- no matter how smooth the step is on the scale of the lattice constant a. The valleys are coupled by a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 A. R. Akhmerov , J. H. Bardarson , A. Rycerz , C. W. J. Beenakker

We consider the corrugated monolayer graphene membrane electromagnetic (from both valleys) response in terahertz range. We study the generated in irradiated graphene total current for the first time taking into account both the synthetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Yu. A. Firsov , N. E. Firsova

We report on the emergence of bulk, valley-polarized currents in graphene-based devices, driven by spatially varying regions of broken sublattice symmetry, and revealed by non-local resistance ($R_\mathrm{NL}$) fingerprints. By using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Thomas Aktor , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

We investigate the electronic dispersion and transport properties of graphene/WSe$_{2}$ heterostructures in the presence of a proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling $\lambda_{v}$, sublattice potential $\Delta$, and an off-resonant circularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 M. Zubair , P. Vasilopoulos , M. Tahir

Recently, the Josephson diode effect (JDE), in which the superconducting critical current magnitudes differ when the currents flow in opposite directions, has attracted great interest. In particular, it was demonstrated that gate-defined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-15 Jin-Xin Hu , Zi-Ting Sun , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

Gapless bilayer graphene is susceptible to a variety of spontaneously gapped states. As predicted by theory and observed by experiment, the ground state is however topologically trivial, because a valley-independent gap is energetically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang , Fan Zhang

Monolayer Graphene contains two inequivalent local minimum, valleys, located at $K$ and $K'$ in the Brillouin zone. There has been considerable interest in the use of these two valleys as a doublet for information processing. Herein I…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Samuel Bladwell

In strained graphene, lattice deformation can create pseudo-magnetic fields and result in zero-field Landau level-like quantization. In the presence of an external magnetic field, valley-polarized Landau levels are predicted to be observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Si-Yu Li , Ke-Ke Bai , Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wen-Xiao Wang , Lin He

Electrons in graphene have fourfold spin and valley degeneracies owing to the unique bipartite honeycomb lattice and an extremely weak spin-orbit coupling, which can support a series of broken symmetry states. Atomic-scale defects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Yu Zhang , Liangguang Jia , Yaoyao Chen , Lin He , Yeliang Wang

Atomically precise tailoring of graphene can enable unusual transport pathways and new nanometer-scale functional devices. Here we describe a recipe for the controlled production of highly regular "5-5-8" line defects in graphene by means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 J. -H. Chen , G. Autès , N. Alem , F. Gargiulo , A. Gautam , M. Linck , C. Kisielowski , O. V. Yazyev , S. G. Louie , A. Zettl

With its two degenerate valleys at the Fermi level, the band structure of graphene provides the opportunity to develop unconventional electronic applications. Herein, we show that electron and hole quasiparticles in graphene can be filtered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Daniel Gunlycke , Carter T. White

Persistent currents can arise in normal-metal rings due to a magnetic flux threading the ring in equilibrium. However, can persistent currents arise in absence of magnetic flux in the same normal-metal rings? Yes they can but in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Colin Benjamin , A M Jayannavar

The interplay of massive electrons with spin-orbit coupling in bulk graphene results in a spin-valley dependent gap. Thus, a barrier with such properties can act as a filter, transmitting only opposite spins from opposite valleys. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 Marko M. Grujić , Milan Ž. Tadić , François M. Peeters

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is studied from multilayer graphene films in the presence of DC electric current flowing in the sample plane. Graphene layers are manufactured by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anton Y. Bykov , Tatiana V. Murzina , Maxim G. Rybin , Elena D. Obraztsova