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We consider the effect of uniaxial strain on ballistic transport in graphene, across single and multiple tunneling barriers. Specifically, we show that applied strain not only shifts the position of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We address the tunneling current in a graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructure as function of the twisting between the crystals. The twisting induces a modulation of the hopping amplitude between the graphene layers, that provides the extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Luis Brey

This work examines the effect of disclinations on the scattering of quasipaticles in graphene with the presence of a topological defect. Using the tight-binding method, the electronic properties of graphene with disclination are described,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 M. J. Bueno , G. Q. Garcia , A. M. de M. Carvalho , C. Furtado

We study a transmission coefficient of graphene nanoribbons with a top gate which acts as an oblique barrier. Using a Green function method based on the Dirac-like equation, scattering among transverse modes due to the oblique barrier is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 J. H. Oh , D. Ahn

The quantum Hall effect in graphene is regarded to be involving half-integer topological numbers associated with the massless Dirac particle, this is usually not apparent due to the doubling of the Dirac cones. Here we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 H Watanabe , Y Hatsugai , H Aoki

We study quantum transport and scattering of massless Dirac fermions by spatially localized static magnetic fields. The employed model describes in a unified manner the effects of orbital magnetic fields, Zeeman and exchange fields in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Zazunov , A. Kundu , A. Hütten , R. Egger

We study the tunneling time of Dirac fermions in graphene magnetic barrier through an electrostatic potential and a mass term. This latter generates an energy gap in the spectrum and therefore affects the proprieties of tunneling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Youssef Fattasse , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Abdelhadi Bahaoui

We review recent work on superlattices in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We highlight the role of the quasiparticle chirality in generating new Dirac fermion modes with tunable anisotropic velocities in one dimensional (1D) superlattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

In this paper, we investigated the effects of periodic external potentials on properties of charge carriers in graphene using both the first-principles method based on density functional theory (DFT) and a theoretical approach based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Aihua Zhang , Zhenxiang Dai , Lei Shi , Yuan Ping Feng , Chun Zhang

The transport properties of electrons in graphene $p$-$n$ junction with uniform Kekul\'e lattice distortion have been studied using the tight-binding model and the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism combined with the nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Peipei Zhang , Chao Wang , Yu-Xian Li , Lixue Zhai , Juntao Song

Electrons in two-dimensional graphene sheets behave as interacting chiral Dirac fermions and have unique screening properties due to their symmetry and reduced dimensionality. By using a combination of scanning tunneling spectroscopy…

We show that under compressive uniaxial deformation of the three-band $\alpha-T_3$ lattice, the Dirac cones move toward each other, merge, and a gap opens, while the flat band remains unchanged. Consequently, the low-energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 L. Mandhour , F. Bouhadida

Based on the transmission coefficient of tunneling electrons, we have presented tunneling current and conductivity across a square-potential barrier for both graphene and $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattices under a linearly-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete

The electrons in graphene for energies close to the Dirac point have been found to form strongly interacting fluid. Taking this fact into account we have extended previous work on the transport properties of graphene by taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Marek Rogatko , Karol. I. Wysokinski

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

The properties of Dirac electrons in a magnetic superlattice (SL) on graphene consisting of very high and thin (delta-function) barriers are investigated. We obtain the energy spectrum analytically and study the transmission through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Ramezani Masir , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We study the optical conductivity of a doped graphene when a sublattice symmetry breaking is occurred in the presence of the electron-phonon interaction. Our study is based on the Kubo formula that is established upon the retarded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kh. Jahanbani , Reza Asgari

We investigated the transient photoconductivity of graphene at various gate-tuned carrier densities by optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy. We demonstrated that graphene exhibits semiconducting positive photoconductivity near zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , Y. C. Shin , J. Kong , N. Gedik

The absence of a band-gap in graphene limits the gate modulation of its electron conductivity, both in regular graphene as well as in PN junctions, where electrostatic barriers prove transparent to Klein tunneling. We demonstrate a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Redwan Sajjad , Avik Ghosh

A so-called artificial graphene is an artificial material whose low-energy carriers are described by the massless Dirac equation. Applying a periodic potential with triangular symmetry to a two-dimensional electron gas is one way to make…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Pilkwang Kim , Cheol-Hwan Park