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Massless Dirac particles cannot be confined by an electrostatic potential. This is a problem for making graphene quantum dots but confinement can be achieved with a magnetic field and here, general conditions for confined and deconfined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Giavaras , P. A. Maksym , M. Roy

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

The prospect of a Dirac half metal, a material which is characterized by a bandstructure with a gap in one spin channel but a Dirac cone in the other, is of both fundamental interest and a natural candidate for use in spin-polarized current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-23 Yuanchang Li , Damien West , Huaqing Huang , Jia Li , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

Charge transport at the Dirac point in bilayer graphene exhibits two dramatically different transport states, insulating and metallic, that occur in apparently otherwise indistinguishable experimental samples. We demonstrate that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-01 Sam Shallcross , Sangeeta Sharma , Heiko B. Weber

We demonstrate that twisting one part of a chiral photonic structure about its helical axis produces a single circularly polarized localized mode that gives rise to an anomalous crossover in propagation. Up to a crossover thickness, this…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor I. Kopp , Azriel Z. Genack

Light incident upon materials can induce changes in their electrical conductivity, a phenomenon referred to as photoresistance. In semiconductors, the photoresistance is negative, as light-induced promotion of electrons across the band gap…

Ballistic transport in graphene p-n junctions in the presence of magnetic field exhibits two distinct regimes: At low fields, transport is partially suppressed by the field. When the field exceeds a certain critical value, the junction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-23 A. V. Shytov , Nan Gu , L. S. Levitov

The mode-dependent transmission of relativistic ballistic massless Dirac fermion through a graphene based double barrier structure is being investigated for various barrier parameters. We compare our results with already published work and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ahmed Jellal , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Hocine Bahlouli , Abdullah Aljaafari

Based on a tight-binding approximation, we present analytical solutions for the wavefunction and propagation velocity of an electron in armchair graphene ribbons. The derived expressions are used for computing the transmission coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Yuriy Klymenko , Oleksii Shevtsov

Quantum geometry is a well-established framework for understanding transport and optical responses in quantum materials. In this work, I study the photon drag effect in Dirac electrons using the quantum geometric interpretation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Guanxiong Qu

Weyl semimetal is a recently discovered state of quantum matter, which generally possesses tilted energy dispersion. Here, we investigate the electron tunneling through a Weyl semimetal p-n-p junction. The angular dependence of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Solutions of the one dimensional Dirac equation with piece-wise constant potentials are presented using standard methods. These solutions show that the Klein Paradox is non-existent and represents a failure to correctly match solutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-24 S. P. Bowen

Periodically driven systems can host many interesting and intriguing phenomena. The irradiated two-dimensional Dirac systems, driven by circularly polarized light, are the most attractive thanks to intuitive physical view of the absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Jin-Yu Zou , Bang-Gui Liu

We investigated theoretically the transmission properties of Dirac Fermions tunneling through a periodically (sinusoidal and rectangular) driven electrostatic barrier in Monolayer graphene. For the time harmonic potential with moderate to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 R. Biswas , S. Mukhopadhyay , C. Sinha

We solve the 2D Dirac equation describing graphene in the presence of a linear vector potential. The discretization of the transverse momentum due to the infinite mass boundary condition reduced our 2D Dirac equation to an effective massive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hocine Bahlouli , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We study the tunneling of Dirac fermions in graphene through a double barrier potential allowing the carriers to have an effective mass inside the barrier as generated by a lattice miss-match with the boron nitride substrate. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hocine Bahlouli , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

A transfer matrix approach is used to study the electronic transport in graphene superlattices with long-range correlated barrier spacements. By considering the low-energy electronic excitations as massless Dirac fermions, we compute by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Jonas R. F. Lima , Ícaro S. F. Bezerra , Marcelo L. Lyra

Light propagation in asymmetric Kerr-nonlinear multilayers with perfect transmission resonances is theoretically investigated. It is found that hybrid Fabry-P\'erot/photonic-crystal structures of the type (BA)^k(AB)^k(AABB)^m exhibit both…

Optics · Physics 2011-02-25 Sergei V. Zhukovsky , Andrey G. Smirnov

Exact conditions for anti-Klein transmission zeros are found analytically with a 4-component continuum approach which includes trigonal warping. Anti-Klein tunneling occurs at oblique incidence on steps and barriers with soft and hard walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 P. A. Maksym , H. Aoki

The Dirac cone underlies many unique electronic properties of graphene and topological insulators, and its band structure--two conical bands touching at a single point--has also been realized for photons in waveguide arrays, atoms in…