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We theoretically investigate electron transport through corrugated graphene ribbons and show how the ribbon curvature leads to an electronic superlattice with a period set by the corrugation wave length. Transport through the ribbon depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isacsson , L. M. Jonsson , J. M. Kinaret , M. Jonson

Graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field is a unique attraction for investigations of the fractional quantum Hall (fQH) states with odd and even denominators of the fraction. Most of the attempts to understand Graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Saurabh Maiti , Tigran Sedrakyan

Electrons in graphene, behaving as massless relativistic Dirac particles, provide a new perspective on the relation between condensed matter and high-energy physics. We discuss atomic collapse, a novel state of superheavy atoms stripped of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-30 Andrei Shytov , Mark Rudner , Nan Gu , Mikhail Katsnelson , Leonid Levitov

We study the coupling between mechanical motion and Dirac electrons in a dynamical sheet of graphene. We show that this coupling can be understood in terms of an effective gauge field acting on the electrons, which has two contributions:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mircea Trif , Pramey Upadhyaya , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

For many of the envisioned optoelectronic applications of graphene it is crucial to understand the sub-picosecond carrier dynamics immediately following photoexcitation, as well as the effect on the electrical conductivity - the…

We consider the Zitterbewegung of Dirac electrons in the monolayer graphene as the nonrelativistic analog of the phenomenon predicted by E. Schr\"odinger for the relativistic electrons in the free space. So we show that the Dirac electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

When electrons are confined in two dimensions and subjected to strong magnetic fields, the Coulomb interactions between them become dominant and can lead to novel states of matter such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. In these liquids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kirill I. Bolotin , Fereshte Ghahari , Michael D. Shulman , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

Due to the success achieved by graphene, several 2D carbon-based allotropes were theoretically predicted and experimentally synthesized. We used density functional theory and reactive molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the…

The computation of the optical conductivity of strained and deformed graphene is discussed within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spaces. The analytical solutions of the Dirac equation in an arbitrary static background…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-01 W. de Paula , a. Chaves , O. Oliveira , T. Frederico

We study the electronic structure of the junctions between a single graphene layer and carbon nanotubes, using a tight-binding model and the continuum theory based on Dirac fermion fields. The latter provides a unified description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , J. Herrero

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

Electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene superlattice made with partial hydrogenation were thoroughly studied via Density Functional Tight Binding approach (DFTB) which incorporates the tight-binding method into the density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ming Yang , Argo Nurbawono , Chun Zhang , Ariando , Yuan Ping Feng

The impact of the electron-electron Coulomb interaction on the optical conductivity of graphene has led to a controversy that calls into question the universality of collisionless transport in this and other Dirac materials. Using a lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-06 Julia M. Link , Peter P. Orth , Daniel E. Sheehy , Jörg Schmalian

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

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

After the discovery of graphene and its many fascinating properties, there has been a growing interest for the study of "artificial graphenes". These are totally different and novel systems which bear exciting similarities with graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Gilles Montambaux

A new type of angular oscillations of the high-frequency conductivity for conductors with a band-contact line has been predicted. The effect is caused by groups of charge carriers near the self-intersection points of the Fermi surface,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Juan C. Medina Pantoja , Juan Sotelo-Campos , Igor V. Kozlov

Single layers of carbon dubbed "graphenes", from which graphite is built, have attracted broad interest in the scientific community because of recent exciting experimental results. Graphene is interesting from a fundamental research…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-05 Yakov Kopelevich , Pablo Esquinazi

Many-body electron-electron interaction effects are theoretically considered in monolayer graphene from a continuum effective field-theoretic perspective by going beyond the standard leading-order perturbative renormalization group (RG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Edwin Barnes , E. H. Hwang , R. E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

Graphene's honeycomb lattice structure underlies much of the remarkable physics inherent in this material, most strikingly through the formation of two ``flavors'' of Dirac cones for each spin. In the quantum Hall regime, the resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 Jason Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher