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Graphene corrugations affect hybridization of $\pi$ and $\sigma$ orbitals of carbon atoms in graphene based systems. It can as well break differently the symmetry of the electron transfer integrals for different strip boundaries. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 M. Pudlak , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We study the emergence of electronic non-trivial topological flat bands in time-periodically driven strained graphene within a tight binding approach based on the Floquet formalism. In particular, we focus on uniaxial spatially periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-03 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

Topological states of matter in equilibrium, as well as out of equilibrium, have been thoroughly investigated during the last years in condensed-matter and cold-atom systems. However, the geometric topology of the studied samples is usually…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 A. Quelle , W. Beugeling , C. Morais Smith

We proposed a minimal model to describe the Floquet band structure of two-dimensional materials with light-induced resonant inter-band transition. We applied it to graphene to study the band features caused by the light irradiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Mou Yang , Zhi-Jun Cai , Rui-Qiang Wang , Yan-Kui Bai

The effects of a propagating sinusoidal out-of-plane flexural deformation in the electronic properties of a tense membrane of graphene are considered within a non-perturbative approach, leading to an electron-ripple coupling. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Gerardo G. Naumis

The electronic structures of graphene systems and topological insulators have closely-related features, such as quantized Berry phase and zero-energy edge states. The reason for these analogies is that in both systems there are two relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Jian Li , Ivar Martin , Markus Buttiker , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The review is focused on our recent predictions of nontrivial physical phenomena taking place in the nanostructure single-layer grapheme on ferroelectric substrate, which are related with magnetic field. In particular we predicted that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Maksym V. Strikha , Anna N. Morozovska , Zhanna G. Zemska

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands characterized by an unusual ``mexican-hat'' dispersion. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

Atomically thin two-dimensional layer of honeycomb crystalline carbon known as graphene is a promising system for electronics. It has a point-like Fermi surface, which is very sensitive to external potentials. In particular, Zeeman magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Khodas , I. A. Zaliznyak , D. E. Kharzeev

We address spin polarization dependence of graphene's Fermi liquid properties quantitatively using a microscopic Random Phase Approximation theory in an interacting spin-polarized Dirac electron system. We show an enhancement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Kh. Jahanbani , Reza Asgari

We theoretically study the piezoelectric effects in moir\`e graphene systems. Since the strain couples to the electrons in the system as a pseudo vector potential, which has opposite signs for the $K$ and $K'$ valleys of graphene, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Ran Peng , Jianpeng Liu

The entanglement spectrum is a useful tool to study topological phases of matter, and contains valuable information about the ground state of the system. Here, we study its properties for free non-Hermitian systems for both point-gapped and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Lukas Rødland , Maria Hermanns

In this paper we study the excitation spectrum of graphene in a strong magnetic field, beyond the Dirac cone approximation. The dynamical polarizability is obtained using a full $\pi$-band tight-binding model where the effect of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Shengjun Yuan , Rafael Roldán , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Graphene is convenient material for nanomechanichal applications since high-frequency oscillations are easily accessible. In this Article, we consider graphene on a rough substrate attached to imperfections at random locations. We explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Mariya V. Medvedyeva , Yaroslav M. Blanter

The paper presents the author view on spin-rooted properties of graphene supported by numerous experimental and calculation evidences. Dirac fermions of crystalline graphene and local spins of graphene molecules are suggested to meet a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Elena F. Sheka

We predict from first principles an entirely topological orbital magnetization in the noncoplanar bulk antiferromagnet $\gamma$-FeMn originating in the nontrivial topology of the underlying spin structure, without any reference to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-23 Jan-Philipp Hanke , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Valley-dependent topological physics offers a promising avenue for designing nanoscale devices based on gapless single-layer graphene. To demonstrate this potential, we investigate an electrical bias-controlled topological discontinuity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Zheng-Han Huang , Jing-Yuan Lai , Yu-Shu G. Wu

The non-trivial topological features in the energy band of non-Hermitian systems provide promising pathways to achieve robust physical behaviors in classical or quantum open systems. A key topological feature, unique to non-Hermitian…

The so called quantum spin Hall phase is a topologically non trivial insulating phase that is predicted to appear in graphene and graphene-like systems. In this work we address the question of whether this topological property persists in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 N. A. Garcia-Martinez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We study the electronic properties of a novel topological defect structure for graphene interspersed with C558-line defects along the Armchair boundary. This system has the topological property of being topologically three-periodic and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Ning-Jing Yang , Wen-Ti Guo , Hai Yang , Zhigao Huang , Jian-Min Zhang