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The spectrum of electron-phonon complexes in a monolayer graphene is investigated in the presence of a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. Despite the small electron-phonon coupling, usual perturbation theory is inapplicable for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 J. Zhu , S. M. Badalyan , F. Peeters

We investigate transport phenomena and dynamical effects in flat bands where the band dispersion plays no role. We show that wavepackets in geometrically non-trivial flat bands can display dynamics when inhomogeneous electric fields are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jing-Xin Liu , Giandomenico Palumbo , Marco Di Liberto

The low-energy physics of rhombohedral $N$-layer graphene mainly arises on the external layers, where most of the {\pi} electrons are located. Their Bloch band structure defines a two-band semimetal; the dispersion relation scales as $\pm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 C. Dutreix , M. I. Katsnelson

We demonstrate that nonlinearity may play a constructive role in supporting Bloch oscillations in a model which is discrete, in one dimension and continuous in the orthogonal one. The model can be experimentally realized in several fields…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-25 R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , T. Meier , A. V. Yulin

Electronic energy-eigen-states of graphene in an orthogonal electromagnetic field with relative magnitude beta=E/vf*B>=1 or in a pure electric field are obtained by a differential-equation method. Gaussian wave packets of probability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-06 Ji Luo

We discuss the method for the measurement of the gravity acceleration g by means of Bloch oscillations of an accelerated BEC in an optical lattice. This method has a theoretical critical point due to the fact that the period of the Bloch…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-23 Andrea Sacchetti

The motion of a quantum system subjected to an external force often defeats our classical intuition. A celebrated example is the dynamics of a single particle in a periodic potential, which undergoes Bloch oscillations under the action of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-11 F. Rabec , G. Chauveau , G. Brochier , S. Nascimbene , J. Dalibard , J. Beugnon

We study numerically the dynamics of a one-electron wave packet in a two-dimensional random lattice with long-range correlated diagonal disorder in the presence of a uniform electric field. The time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 F. A. B. F. de Moura , M. L. Lyra , F. Dominguez-Adame , V. A. Malyshev

Tunneling of Bloch electrons through a vacuum barrier introduces new physical effects in comparison with the textbook case of free (plane wave) electrons. For the latter, the exponential decay rate in the vacuum is minimal for electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 I. I. Mazin

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold atoms loaded into a square optical lattice and subject to a static force. For vanishing atom-atom interactions the atoms perform periodic Bloch oscillations for arbitrary direction of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 M. -C. Chung , A. R. Kolovsky

The studies of multi-magnon excitations will extend our understandings of quantum magnetism and strongly correlated matters. Here, by using the time-evolving block decimation algorithm, we investigate the Bloch oscillations of two-magnon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Wenjie Liu , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

The impact of an external electric field on the spin relaxation in a disordered two-dimensional electron system is studied within the framework of a field-theoretical formulation. Generalized Bloch-equations for the diffusion and the decay…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Bleibaum

We study the Bloch dynamics of a quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms in a tilted optical lattice modeled by a Hamiltonian of Bose-Hubbard type: The corresponding mean-field system described by a discrete nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey R. Kolovsky , Hans Jürgen Korsch , Eva-Maria Graefe

Electric current and spacial displacement due to trembling motion [Zitterbewegung (ZB)] of electrons in graphene in the presence of an external magnetic field are described. Contributions of both inequivalent $K$ points in the Brillouin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-30 Tomasz M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki

An electron beam traversing a structured plasmonic field is shown to undergo diffraction with characteristic angular patterns of both elastic and inelastic outgoing electron components. In particular, a plasmonic {\it grating} (e.g., a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo , Brett Barwick , Fabrizio Carbone

The effect of strain in graphene is usually modeled by a pseudo-magnetic vector potential which is, however, derived in the limit of small strain. In realistic cases deviations are expected in view of graphene's very high strain tolerance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 D. Moldovan , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

We examine phenomenon of electromagnetic transparency in semiconductor superlattices (having various miniband dispersion laws) in the presence of multi-frequency periodic and non-periodic electric fields. Effects of induced transparency and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Yu. A. Romanov , J. Yu. Romanova , L. G. Mourokh

Bloch oscillations are exotic phenomena describing the periodic motion of a wave packet subjected to the external force in a lattice, where the system possessing single- or multipleparticles could exhibit distinct oscillation behaviors. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Weixuan Zhang , Hao Yuan , Haiteng Wang , Fengxiao Di , Na Sun , Xingen Zheng , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

We study the behaviour of the expectation value of the acceleration of a particle in a one-dimensional periodic potential when an external homogeneous force is suddenly applied. The theory is formulated in terms of modified Bloch states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Federico Duque-Gomez , J. E. Sipe

Density functional perturbation theory is used to analyze electron-phonon interaction in bilayer graphene. The results show that phonon scattering in bilayer graphene bears more resemblance with bulk graphite than monolayer graphene. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , X. Li , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim