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The electronic spectra of rotationally faulted graphene bilayers are calculated using a continuum formulation for small fault angles that identifies two distinct electronic states of the coupled system. The low energy spectra of one state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 E. J. Mele

We demonstrate that circular graphene ring under a shear stress displays strong pseudo-magnetic fields. We calculate the pseudo-magnetic field both from continuum elasticity theory as well as molecular dynamics simulations. Stable wrinkles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nima Abedpour , Reza Asgari , F. Guinea

The dispersion relation for the collective plasma excitations of optically dressed Dirac electrons in single and double graphene layers is calculated in the random-phase approximation. The presence of circularly polarized light gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov

In the present work, we give a phenomenological theory of the monolayer graphene where two worlds quantum and classical meet together and complete each other in the most natural way. It appears that the graphene is the unique material where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 V. Apinyan , M. Sahakyan

Structure and coordinate dependence of the reflected wave, as well as boundary conditions for quasi-particles of graphene and the two dimensional electron gas in sheets with abrupt lattice edges are obtained and analyzed by the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 A. M. Kadigrobov

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

We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general expression of frequency and wave-vector dependent polarizability within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tao Zhu , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang

The prototypical exciton model of two interacting Dirac particles in graphene was analyzed in [1] and it was found that in one of the electron-hole scattering channels the total kinetic energy vanishes, resulting in a singular behaviour. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Lachlan L. Marnham , Andrey V. Shytov

We study the emergence of Dirac fermionic field in the low energy description of non-relativistic dynamical models on graphs admitting continuum limit. The Dirac fermionic field appears as the effective field describing the excitations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Corneliu Sochichiu

Electrons in solids are characterized by the energy bands, which indicate that electrons are considered to be "elementary particles" with specific effective masses and g-factors reflecting features of each solid. There are cases where these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hidetoshi Fukuyama , Akito Kobayashi , Yoshikazu Suzumura

Interest on 2 + 1 dimensional electron systems has increased considerably after the realization of novel properties of graphene sheets, in which the behaviour of electrons is effectively described by relativistic equations. Having this fact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-19 Mehmet Ali Olpak

The different physical properties of multilayered graphene or graphite relative to single layer graphene result from the Dirac spins symmetry in graphene and the Pauli spin symmetry in graphite. The Dirac symmetry in multilayers of graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-28 Reginald B. Little , Glenn J. Gex , Muhammad Ansari , James W. Mitchell

Although massless Dirac fermions in graphene constitute a centrosymmetric medium for in-plane excitations, their second-order nonlinear optical response is nonzero if the effects of spatial dispersion are taken into account. Here we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Yongrui Wang , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

A theory for conduction electron scattering by inhomogeneous crystal lattice strains is developed, based on the differential geometric treatment of deformations in solids. The resulting fully covariant Schr\"odinger equation shows that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-02 Koushik Viswanathan , Srinivasan Chandrasekar

We investigate the twist-angle and gate dependence of the proximity exchange coupling in twisted graphene on monolayer Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ from first principles. The proximitized Dirac band dispersions of graphene are fitted to a model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

We present an in-depth analysis of the electronic and vibrational band structure of uniaxially strained graphene by ab-initio calculations. Depending on the direction and amount of strain, the Fermi crossing moves away from the $K$-point.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Marcel Mohr , Konstantinos Papagelis , Janina Maultzsch , Christian Thomsen

We have investigated the role of pseudospin polarization in electron wave packet dynamics in pristine graphene and in a graphene antidot lattice subject to an external magnetic field. Employing a Green's function formalism, we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 R. A. W. Ayyubi , N. J. M. Horing , K. Sabeeh

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

We report scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) of twisted graphene bilayer on SiC substrate. For twist angle ~ 4.5o the Dirac point ED is located about 0.40 eV below the Fermi level EF due to the electron doping at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Lan Meng , Yanfeng Zhang , Wei Yan , Lei Feng , Lin He , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie