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On the basis of first-principles calculations, we report that a novel interfacial atomic structure occurs between graphene and the surface of silicon carbide, destroying the Dirac point of graphene and opening a substantial energy gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-30 Seungchul Kim , Jisoon Ihm , Hyoung Joon Choi , Young-Woo Son

In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-20 D. S. L. Abergel , V. Apalkov , J. Berashevich , K. Ziegler , Tapash Chakraborty

We theoretically investigate light propagation and Anderson localization in one-dimensional disordered superlattices composed of dielectric stacks with graphene sheets in between. Disorder is introduced either on graphene material…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-19 A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres , F. A. Pinheiro

The wavefront dislocation is an important and ubiquitous phenomenon in wave fields. It is closely related to the phase singularity in a wave function. Some recent studies have verified that the wavefront dislocations in the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

Ultrafast optical pump-probe spectroscopy measurement on monolayer graphene observes significant optical nonlinearities. We show that strongly photoexcited graphene monolayers with 35 fs pulses quasi-instantaneously build up a broadband,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Junhua Zhang , Joerg Schmalian , Tianqi Li , Jigang Wang

Transport properties through wide and short ballistic graphene junctions are studied in the presence of arbitrary dopings and magnetic fields. No dependence on the magnetic field is observed at the Dirac point for any current cumulant, just…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose , Bernhard Wunsch , Francisco Guinea

A transfer matrix method is presented for solving the scattering problem for the quasi one-dimensional massless Dirac equation applied to graphene in the presence of an arbitrary inhomogeneous electric and perpendicular magnetic field. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Sameer Grover , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

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

New Dirac points appear when periodic potentials are applied to graphene, and there are many interesting effects near these new Dirac points. Here we investigate the $\textit{Zitterbewegung}$ effect of fermions described by a Gaussian wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Jianli Luan , Shangyang Li , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang

We study ballistic transport in periodically gated bilayer graphene as a candidate for a 2D electronic metamaterial. Our calculations use the equilibrium Green function formalism and take into account quantum corrections to charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Xianqing Lin , David Tomanek

High-mobility graphene hosting massless charge carriers with linear dispersion provides a promising platform for electron optics phenomena. Inspired by the physics of dielectric optical micro-cavities where the photon emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Jule-Katharina Schrepfer , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter , Martina Hentschel

The effect of various dielectrics on charge mobility in single layer graphene is investigated. By calculating the remote optical phonon scattering arising from the polar substrates, and combining it with their effect on Coulombic impurity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Aniruddha Konar , Tian Fang , Debdeep Jena

Starting from an engineered periodic optical structure formed by waveguide arrays comprised of two interleaved lattices, we simulate a deformed Dirac equation. We show that the system also simulate graphene nano ribbons under strain. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 M. R. Setare , P. Majari , C. Noh , Sh. Dehdashti

Electrons in quantum materials exhibiting coexistence of dispersionless (flat) bands piercing dispersive (steep) bands can give rise to strongly correlated phenomena, and are associated with unconventional superconductivity. It is known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 Stephen Carr , Chenyuan Li , Ziyan Zhu , Efthimios Kaxiras , Subir Sachdev , Alex Kruchkov

A uniaxial strain applied to graphene-like materials moves the Dirac nodes along the boundary of the Brillouin zone. An extreme case is the merging of the Dirac node positions to a single degenerate spectral node which gives rise to a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Phusit Nualpijit , Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

Our previous results on the nonperturbative calculations of the mean current and of the energy-momentum tensor in QED with the T-constant electric field are generalized to arbitrary dimensions. The renormalized mean values are found; the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-24 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , N. Yokomizo

Graphene superlattices (GSLs), formed by subjecting a monolayer graphene sheet to a periodic potential, can be used to engineer band structures and, from there, charge transport properties, but these are sensitive to the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Qifang Zhao , Jiangbin Gong , Cord A. Mueller

Patterning graphene with a spatially-periodic potential provides a powerful means to modify its electronic properties. Dramatic effects have been demonstrated in twisted bilayers where coupling to the resulting moir\'e-superlattice yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yutao Li , Scott Dietrich , Carlos Forsythe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Pilkyung Moon , Cory R. Dean

The Dirac point with a double-cone structure for optical fields, an optical analogy Dirac fermions in graphene, can be realized in optically homogenous metamaterials. The condition for the realization of Dirac point in optical systems is…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Li-Gang Wang , Zhi-Guo Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu