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A two-dimensional periodic array of scatterers has been introduced to a single layer of graphene in the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene layer. The eigenvalue equation for such a system has been solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

We investigate the influence of gauge fields induced by strain on the supercurrent passing through the graphene-based Josephson junctions. We show in the presence of a constant pseudomagnetic field ${\bf B}_S$ originated from an arc-shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Hadi Khanjani , Ali G. Moghaddam

We study magneto--optical properties of monolayer graphene by means of quantum field theory methods in the framework of the Dirac model. We reveal a good agreement between the Dirac model and a recent experiment on giant Faraday rotation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 I. V. Fialkovsky , D. V. Vassilevich

Nonuniform strain in graphene acts as a valley-dependent gauge field, generating pseudomagnetic fields (PMFs) that mimic real magnetic fields but preserve global time-reversal symmetry. While local probes have visualized such fields, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Divya Sahani , Sunit Das , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Agarwal , Aveek Bid

Motivated by recent proposals on strain-engineering of graphene electronic circuits we calculate conductivity, shot-noise and the density of states in periodically deformed graphene. We provide the solution to the Dirac-Kronig-Penney model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 S. Gattenloehner , W. Belzig , M. Titov

Many of the properties of graphene are tied to its lattice structure, allowing for tuning of charge carrier dynamics through mechanical strain. The graphene electro-mechanical coupling yields very large pseudomagnetic fields for small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Shuze Zhu , Joseph A. Stroscio , Teng Li

Introducing quantum confinement has uncovered a rich set of interesting quantum phenomena and allows one to directly probe the physics of confined (quasi-)particles. In most experiments, however, electrostatic potential is the only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

In this work, we explore the strain and curvature effects on the electronic properties of a curved graphene structure, called the graphene wormhole. The electron dynamics is described by a massless Dirac fermion containing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 J. E. G. Silva , Ö. Yeşiltaş , J. Furtado , A. A. Araújo Filho

We study the effect of a uniform pseudomagnetic field, induced by a strain in a monolayer and double layer of gapped graphene, acting on excitons. For our analysis it is crucial that the pseudomagnetic field acts on the charges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Yurii E. Lozovik , Klaus G. Ziegler

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

The time evolution of a wavepacket in strained graphene is studied within the tight-binding model and continuum model. The effect of an external magnetic field, as well as a strain-induced pseudo-magnetic field, on the wave packet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-06 Andrey Chaves , L. Covaci , Kh. Yu. Rakhimov , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of a ferromagnetic/strained/normal graphene junctions with central region subjected to a magnetic field $B$. An analytical approach, based on Dirac equation, is implemented to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Youness Zahidi , Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Moir'e patterns in the pseudo-magnetic field and in the strain profile of graphene (GE) when put on top of a hexagonal lattice substrate are predicted from elasticity theory. %which are confirmed by atomistic simulations. The van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

The electrons in graphene for energies close to the Dirac point have been found to form strongly interacting fluid. Taking this fact into account we have extended previous work on the transport properties of graphene by taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Marek Rogatko , Karol. I. Wysokinski

We examine the low-energy physics of graphene in the presence of a circularly polarized electric field in the terahertz regime. Specifically, we derive a general expression for the dynamical polarizability of graphene irradiated by an ac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Maria Busl , Gloria Platero , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The effect of a modulated magnetic field on the electronic structure of neutral graphene is examined in this paper. It is found that application of a small staggered modulated magnetic field does not destroy the Dirac-cone structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 Lei Xu , Jin An , Chang-De Gong

It has been shown in a recent study [Nguyen et al., Nanotechnol. \textbf{25}, 165201 (2014)] that unstrained/strained graphene junctions are promising candidates to improve the performance of graphene transistors that is usually hindered by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Mai Chung Nguyen , Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

We investigate the effects of homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformations and edge disorder on the conductance of gated graphene nanoribbons. Under increasing homogeneous strain the conductance of such devices initially decreases before it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Diana A. Cosma , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko