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We studied the Klein paradox in zigzag (ZNR) and anti-zigzag (AZNR) graphene nanoribbons. Due to the fact that ZNR (the number of lattice sites across the nanoribbon (N is even) and AZNR (N is odd) configurations are indistinguishable when…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 O. Roslyak , A. Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

Electrons in isolated graphene layers are a two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac Fermions. In realistic devices, however, the electronic properties are modified by elastic deformations, interlayer coupling and substrate interaction. Here…

Electron supercollimation, in which a wavepacket is guided to move undistorted along a selected direction, is a highly desirable property that has yet been realized experimentally. Disorder in general is expected to inhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 SangKook Choi , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

The possibility of intrinsic superconductivity in alkali-coated graphene monolayers has been recently suggested theoretically. Here, we derive the possible pairing symmetries of a carbon honeycomb lattice and discuss their phase diagram. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-17 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Electrons in graphene follow unconventional trajectories at PN junctions, driven by their pseudospintronic degree of freedom. Significant is the prominent angular dependence of transmission, capturing the chiral nature of the electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Redwan N. Sajjad , S. Sutar , J. U. Lee , Avik W. Ghosh

Klein tunneling is a counterintuitive quantum-mechanical phenomenon, predicting perfect transmission of relativistic particles through higher energy barriers. This phenomenon was shown to be supported at normal incidence in graphene due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Lea Sirota

The honeycomb lattice of graphene is a unique two-dimensional (2D) system where the quantum mechanics of electrons is equivalent to that of relativistic Dirac fermions. Novel nanometer-scale behavior in this material, including electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Feng Wang , Caglar Girit , Yossi Yayon , Melissa Panlasigui , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi

The different physical properties of multilayered graphene or graphite relative to single layer graphene result from the Dirac spins symmetry in graphene and the Pauli spin symmetry in graphite. The Dirac symmetry in multilayers of graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-28 Reginald B. Little , Glenn J. Gex , Muhammad Ansari , James W. Mitchell

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Electronic properties of the graphene layer sandwiched between two hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been studied using the first-principles calculations and the minimal tight-binding model. It is shown that for the ABC-stacked structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , P. Kosinski , Z. Klusek

Proximity orbital and spin-orbital effects of graphene on monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are investigated from first-principles. The Dirac band structure of graphene is found to lie within the semiconducting gap of TMDCs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Petra Högl , Jaroslav Fabian

Localized states in graphene have garnered significant attention in quantum information science due to their potential applications. Despite graphene's superior transport and electronic properties compared to other semiconductors, achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Seunghyun Jun , Myung-Chul Jung , Nojoon Myoung

We investigate the effect of topological defects on the transport properties of a narrow ballistic ribbon of graphene with zigzag edges. Our results show that the longitudinal conductance vanishes at several discrete Fermi energies where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-11 Yan-Yang Zhang , Jiang-Ping Hu , B. A. Bernevig , X. R. Wang , X. C. Xie , W. M. Liu

We study Dirac fermions in gapped graphene that are subjected to a magnetic field and a potential barrier harmonically oscillating in time. The tunneling modes inside the gap and the associated Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shifts are analytically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Within an effective Dirac theory the low-energy dispersions of monolayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin-degenerate bilayer graphene are described by formally identical expressions. We explore implications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 Ming-Hao Liu , Jan Bundesmann , Klaus Richter

We study the charge carriers transport in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a lateral one-dimensional multibarrier structure. We investigate the band structures of our system, that is made up of two shifted Dirac cones, for finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal

The effects of gauge interactions in graphene have been analyzed up to now in terms of effective models of Dirac fermions. However, in several cases lattice effects play an important role and need to be taken consistently into account. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-19 Alessandro Giuliani , Vieri Mastropietro , Marcello Porta

Anisotropic Dirac cones can appear in a number of correlated electron systems, such as cuprate superconductors and deformed graphene. We study the influence of long-range Coulomb interaction on the physical properties of an anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu

Low-energy fermionic excitations in two-dimensional materials deviate from the conventional Schr\"odinger description and are instead governed by Dirac equations. Such Dirac fermions give rise to a variety of unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiang Liua , Zheng Taoa , Wenchen Luoa , Tapash Chakraborty