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Theory of scattering of massive chiral fermions in bilayer graphene by radial symmetric potential is developed. It is shown that in the case when the electron wavelength is much larger than the radius of the potential the scattering…
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Scattering of matter waves through slits has been explored using the Feynman Path Integral formalism. We explicitly plot the near-zero probability densities to analyse the behaviour near the slit. Upon doing so, intriguing patterns emerge,…
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We show that a coherent picture of the dc conductivity of monolayer and bilayer graphene at finite electronic densities emerges upon considering that strong short-range potentials are the main source of scattering in these two systems. The…
Multiple gaps in the tight-binding band of a pentagonal lattice are found. Unlike the Cairo pentagonal lattice this lattice is made of irregular pentagons with arms of different lengths. The tight-binding Hamiltonian is exactly solved to…
The generalized tight-binding model, with the exact diagonalization method, is developed to investigate optical properties of graphene in five kinds of external fields. The quite large Hamiltonian matrix is transferred into the band-like…
Transmission through a complex network of nonlinear one-dimensional leads is discussed by extending the stationary scattering theory on quantum graphs to the nonlinear regime. We show that the existence of cycles inside the graph leads to a…
Scattering often limits the controlled delivery of light in applications such as biomedical imaging, optogenetics, optical trapping, and fiber-optic communication or imaging. Such scattering can be controlled by appropriately shaping the…
We present numerical studies of conduction in graphene nanoribbons with reconstructed edges based on the standard tight-binding model of the graphene and the extended Huckel model of the reconstructed defects. We performed atomic geometry…
We consider the inverse scattering problem of retrieving the structural parameters of a stratified medium consisting of dispersive materials, given knowledge of the complex reflection coefficient in a finite frequency range. It is shown…
Penta-graphene is a quasi-two-dimensional carbon allotrope consisting of a pentagonal lattice in which both sp2 and sp3-like carbons are present. Unlike graphene, penta-graphene exhibits a non-zero bandgap, which opens the possibility of…
SiGe alloy scattering is of significant importance with the introduction of strained layers and SiGe channels into CMOS technology. However, alloy scattering has till now been treated in an empirical fashion with a fitting parameter. We…
This note proposes rapidly convergent computational formulae for evaluating scattering kernels from radiative transfer theory. The approach used here does not rely on Legendre expansions, but rather uses exponentially convergent numerical…
We provide a method for the generation of effective continuum Hamiltonians that goes beyond the well known k.p method in being equally effective in both high, and low (or no) symmetry situations. Our approach is based on a surprising exact…