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Electronic band gap and transport in quasi-periodic graphene superlattice of double-periodic sequence have been investigated. It is found that such quasi-periodic structure can possess a zero-averaged wave number (zero-$\bar{k}$) gap which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Qi-Biao Zhu

We discuss topological aspects of electronic properties of graphene, including edge effects, with the tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice and its extensions to show the following: (i) Appearance of the pairn of massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Hatsugai , T. Fukui , H. Aoki

Dirac magnons, the bosonic counterparts of Dirac fermions in graphene, provide a unique platform to explore symmetry-protected band crossings and quantum geometry in magnetic insulators, while promising high-velocity, low-dissipation spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Rintaro Eto , Ignacio Salgado-Linares , Masahito Mochizuki , Johannes Knolle , Alexander Mook

Motivated by recent experimental observations in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, we study the $K$-$\Gamma$ model on the honeycomb lattice in an external magnetic field. By a slave-particle representation and Variational Monte Carlo calculations, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-15 Zheng-Xin Liu , Bruce Normand

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

We establish an analogy between spectra of Dirac fermions in laser fields and an electron spectrum of graphene superlattices formed by static 1D periodic potentials. The general relations between a laser-controlled spectrum where electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sergey E. Savel'ev , Alexandre S. Alexandrov

Symmetry arguments are used to describe all possible two-dimensional periodic corrugations of graphene ("nanomeshes") capable of inducing tangible semiconducting gap. Such nanomeshes or superlattices break the initial graphene translational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 I. I. Naumov , A. M. Bratkovsky

We report on high-field magnetotransport (B up to 35 T) on a gated superlattice based on single-layer graphene aligned on top of hexagonal boron nitride. The large-period moir\'e modulation (15 nm) enables us to access the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 S. Pezzini , S. Wiedmann , A. Mishchenko , M. Holwill , R. Gorbachev , D. Ghazaryan , K. S. Novoselov , U. Zeitler

We explore the possible particle-hole instabilities that can arise in a system of massless Dirac fermions on both the honeycomb and pi-flux square lattices with short range interactions. Through analytical and numerical studies we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-04-28 C. Weeks , M. Franz

The low energy spectrum of a particle in planar honeycomb lattices is conical, which leads to the unusual electronic properties of graphene. In this letter we calculate the quasienergy spectra of a charged particle in honeycomb lattices…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang , Suqing Duan , Xian-Geng Zhao

The spectrum of tight binding electrons on a square lattice with half a magnetic flux quantum per unit cell exhibits two Dirac points at the band center. We show that, in the presence of an additional uniaxial staggered potential, this pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-06 P. Delplace , G. Montambaux

We demonstrate how a Dirac-like magnon spectrum is generated for localized magnetic moments forming a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. The Dirac crossing point is proven to be robust against magnon-magnon interactions, as these only shift…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 J. Fransson , A. M. Black-Schaffer , A. V. Balatsky

We consider spontaneous symmetry breaking transitions of strongly interacting two-dimensional Dirac fermions minimally coupled to mass and emergent gauge field order parameters. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-20 Elliot Christou , Fernado de Juan , Frank Krüger

We study superconducting (SC) phases that are naturally proximate to a spin-orbit coupled SU(8) Dirac semi-metal on a honeycomb lattice. This system, which offers enhanced low-energy symmetries, presents an interesting platform for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Ankush Chaubey , Basudeb Mondal , Vijay B. Shenoy , Subhro Bhattacharjee

The attractive Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice exhibits, at half-filling, a quantum critical point (QCP) between a semimetal with massless Dirac fermions and an s-wave superconductor (SC). We study the BCS-BEC crossover in this model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Erhai Zhao , Arun Paramekanti

A Dirac-type energy spectrum was demonstrated in gapless ultra-short-period metamorphic InAsSb/InSb superlattices by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES_ measurements. The Fermi velocity value 7.4x10^5 m/s in a gapless…

In mean-field-theory bilayer graphene's massive Dirac fermion model has a family of broken inversion symmetry ground states with charge gaps and flavor dependent spontaneous inter layer charge transfers. We use a lattice Hartree-Fock model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-22 Jeil Jung , Fan Zhang , Allan H. MacDonald

The electronic transmission and conductance of a gapped graphene superlattice were calculated by means of the transfer-matrix method. The system that we study consists of a sequence of electron-doped graphene as wells and hole-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Esmailpour , A. Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , E. Elahi , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

We develop a tight-binding model description of semi-Dirac electronic spectra, with highly anisotropic dispersion around point Fermi surfaces, recently discovered in electronic structure calculations of VO$_2$/TiO$_2$ nano-heterostructures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Banerjee , R. R. P. Singh , V. Pardo , W. E. Pickett

Electron-electron interactions in a Weyl semimetal are rigorously investigated in a lattice model by non perturbative methods. The absence of quantum phase transitions is proved for interactions not too large and short ranged. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Vieri Mastropietro