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We study conductance fluctuations (CF) and the sensitivity of the conductance to the motion of a single scatterer in two-dimensional massless Dirac systems. Our extensive numerical study finds limits to the predicted universal value of CF.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Mario F. Borunda , Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

A fundamental question in graph theory is to establish conditions that ensure a graph contains certain spanning subgraphs. Two well-known examples are Tutte's theorem on perfect matchings and Dirac's theorem on Hamilton cycles.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Yi Zhao

We consider the relationship between the tight-binding Hamiltonian of the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms with nearest neighbor hopping only and the 2+1 dimensional Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics which follows in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov , J. P. Carbotte

The low energy physics of both graphene and surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators is described by gapless Dirac fermions with linear dispersion. In this work, we predict the emergence of a "heavy" Dirac fermion in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Wendong Cao , Rui-Xing Zhang , Peizhe Tang , Gang Yang , Jorge Sofo , Wenhui Duan , Chao-Xing Liu

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

This is a short review of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in graphene and similar systems such as boron nitride, quasi-2D organic salts $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, artificial graphene with cold atoms in optical lattices, etc. The emphasis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Jean-Noel Fuchs

Dirac fermions exist in many solid state systems including graphene, silicene and other two dimensional membranes such as are found in group VI dichalcogenides, as well as on the surface of some insulators where such states are protected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Zhou Li , J. P. Carbotte

Using the self-consistent Born approximation to the Dirac fermions under finite-range impurity scatterings, we show that the current-current correlation function is determined by four-coupled integral equations. This is very different from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-10 Xin-Zhong Yan , Yousef Romiah , C. S. Ting

In present paper we construct classical and quantum models of an extended charged particle. One shows that consecutive modelling can be based on the hollow thin-wall charged texture (in the hydrodynamical approach of a perfect fluid) which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

We predict the existence of an intriguing "disorder by order" phenomenon in graphene transport where higher quality (and thus more ordered) samples, while having higher mobility at high carrier density, will manifest more strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-25 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , Qiuzi Li

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

The full counting statistics of the charge transport through an undoped graphene sheet in the presence of smooth disorder is studied. At the Dirac point both in clean and diffusive limits, transport properties of a graphene sample are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 A. Schuessler , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Dirac materials are characterized by energy-momentum relations that resemble those of relativistic massless particles. Commonly denominated Dirac cones, these dispersion relations are considered to be their essential feature. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 A. Diaz-Fernandez , L. Chico , J. W. Gonzalez , F. Dominguez-Adame

We study the competition of spin- and charge-density waves and their quantum multicritical behavior for the semimetal-insulator transitions of low-dimensional Dirac fermions. Employing the effective Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory with two order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Laura Classen , Igor F. Herbut , Lukas Janssen , Michael M. Scherer

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

A way to identify the would-be zero-modes of staggered lattice fermions away from the continuum limit is presented. Our approach also identifies the chiralities of these modes, and their index is seen to be determined by gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-14 David H. Adams

We estimate the strength of interaction-enhanced coherence between two graphene or topological insulator surface-state layers by solving imaginary-axis gap equations in the random phase approximation. Using a self-consistent treatment of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Inti Sodemann , D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

We use Dirac matrix representations of the Clifford algebra to build fracton models on the lattice and their effective Chern-Simons-like theory. As an example we build lattice fractons in odd $D$ spatial dimensions and their $(D+1)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-01 Weslei B. Fontana , Pedro R. S. Gomes , Claudio Chamon

Massless Dirac fermions in graphene at charge neutrality form a strongly interacting system in which both charged and neutral (energy) modes play an important role. These modes are essentially decoupled in the absence of a magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Justin C. W. Song , Leonid S. Levitov

Some aspects of the theory of fermions living on three dimensional spacetime with a flat co-dimension one boundary are discussed, particularly a case where the boundary condition preserves scale and translation invariance but violates the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-21 Gordon W. Semenoff