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We study the effects of disorder in the electronic properties of graphene multilayers, with special focus on the bilayer and the infinite stack. At low energies and long wavelengths, the electronic self-energies and density of states…

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The outstanding transport properties expected at the edge of two-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological insulators have proven to be challenging to realize experimentally, and have so far only been demonstrated in very short…

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In molecular electronic conduction, exotic lattice morphologies often give rise to exotic behaviors. Among 2D systems, graphene is a notable example. Recently, a stable amorphous version of graphene called Monolayer Amorphous Carbon (MAC)…

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In this review, we provide an account of the recent progress in understanding electronic transport in disordered graphene systems. Starting from a theoretical description that emphasizes the role played by band structure properties and…

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In rhombohedral-stacked few-layer graphene, the very flat energy bands near the charge neutrality point are unstable to electronic interactions, giving rise to states with spontaneous broken symmetries. Using transport measurements on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 K. Myhro , S. Che , Y. Shi , Y. Lee , K. Thilahar , K. Bleich , Dmitry Smirnov , C. N. Lau

Using a generalized Landauer approach we study the non-linear transport in mesoscopic graphene with zig-zag and armchair edges. We find that for clean systems, the low-bias low-temperature conductance, G, of an armchair edge system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

Employing the Kernel Polynomial method (KPM), we study the electronic properties of the graphene bilayers in the presence of diagonal disorder, within the tight-binding approximation. The KPM method enables us to calculate local density of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-09 M. H. Zare , Mohsen Amini , Farhad Shahbazi , S. A. Jafari

Using the recursive Green's function method, we study the problem of electron transport in a disordered single-layer graphene sheet. The conductivity is of order $e^2/h$ and its dependence on the carrier density has a scaling form that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Antonio H. Castro Neto

Transport properties of single-layer graphene with correlated one-dimensional defects are studied using the time-dependent real-space Kubo-Greenwood formalism. Such defects are present in epitaxial graphene, comprising atomic terraces and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 T. M. Radchenko , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene is an ideal platform to search for correlated electron phenomena, due to its pair of flat bands touching at zero energy and further tunability by an electric field. Furthermore, its valley-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Giovanni Scuri , Jiho Sung , Jue Wang , Tianyi Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongkun Park , Long Ju

Band-topology is traditionally analyzed in terms of gauge-invariant observables associated with crystalline Bloch wavefunctions. Recent work has demonstrated that many of the free fermion topological characteristics survive even in an…

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We study localization in two- and three channel quasi-1D systems using multichain tight-binding Anderson models with nearest-neighbour interchain hopping. In the three chain case we discuss both the case of free- and that of periodic…

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Electron transport in a disordered graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is crucially affected by a perfectly conducting channel (PCC), which is stabilized if intervalley scattering is ignorable. In the presence of such a PCC, the…

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We study the properties of the spinor wavefunction in a strongly disordered environment on a two-dimensional lattice. By employing a transfer-matrix calculation we find that there is a transition from delocalized to localized states at a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-09 A. Hill , K. Ziegler

We consider charge transport across a finite graphene flake with a circular antidot defined in its center. The flake is connected to thin metallic armchair nanoribbons and the study covers the energy range within the neighborhood of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 Alina Mreńca , Krzysztof Kolasiński , Bartłomiej Szafran

The problem of electrostatic screening of a charged line by undoped or weakly doped graphene is treated beyond the linear-response theory. The induced electron density is found to be approximately doping independent, n(x)~(log x)^2/x^2, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Michael M. Fogler

We study the localization properties of a disordered tight-binding Hamiltonian on a generic bipartite lattice close to the band center. By means of a fermionic replica trick method, we derive the effective non-linear $\sigma$-model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Michele Fabrizio , Claudio Castellani

We investigate the electronic structure induced by wedge-disclinations (conical singularities) in a honeycomb lattice model realizing Chern numbers $\gamma=\pm 1$. We establish a correspondence between the bound state of (i) an isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 Andreas Rüegg , Chungwei Lin

This article proposes a novel analytical model for the anisotropic multi-layer structures containing magnetically biased graphene sheets. The multi-layer structure is composed of various magnetic materials. An external magnetic field is…

We present a numerical study of electromagnetic wave transport in disordered quasi-one-dimensional waveguides at terahertz frequencies. Finite element method calculations of terahertz wave propagation within LiNbO$_{3}$ waveguides with…