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Adopting a purely two dimensional relativistic equation for graphene's carriers contradicts the Heisenberg uncertainty principle since it requires setting off-the-surface coordinate of a three-dimensional wavefunction to zero. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Victor Atanasov , Avadh Saxena

Noncommutative geometric construction of gravity in the two sheeted spacetime can be viewed as a discretized version of a Kaluza-Klein theory. In this paper, we show that it is possible to incorporate the nonabelian gauge fields in the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Viet Ai Nguyen , Du Tien Pham

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures ---formed by stacking or growing two-dimensional (2D) crystals on top of each other--- have emerged as a new promising route to tailor and engineer the properties of 2D materials. Twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 G. Catarina , B. Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , N. M. R. Peres

The dynamical conductivity of interacting multiband electronic systems derived in Ref.[1] is shown to be consistent with the general form of the Ward identity. Using the semiphenomenological form of this conductivity formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 I. Kupcic

We introduce and study a minimum two-orbital Hubbard model on a triangular lattice, which captures the key features of both the trilayer ABC-stacked graphene-boron nitride heterostructure and twisted transition metal dichalcogenides in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-17 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

We present a new approach to the covariant canonical formulation of Einstein-Cartan gravity that preserves the full Lorentz group as the local gauge group. The method exploits lessons learned from gravity in 2+1 dimensions regarding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Andrew Randono

We determine the band structure of graphene under strain using density functional calculations. The ab-initio band strucure is then used to extract the best fit to the tight-binding hopping parameters used in a recent microscopic model of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-08 R. M. Ribeiro , Vitor M. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres , P. R. Briddon , A. H. Castro Neto

We show that it is possible to formulate gravity with a complex vierbein based on SL(2,C) gauge invariance. The proposed action is a four-form where the metric is not introduced but results as a function of the complex vierbein. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ali H. Chamseddine

A new Lorentz gauge gravity model with R^2-type Lagrangian is proposed. In the absence of classical torsion the model admits a topological phase with an arbitrary metric. We analyze the equations of motion in constant curvature space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. M. Cho , D. G. Pak , B. S. Park

In this work, we focus on the fermionic structure of the low-energy excitations of graphene (a monolayer of carbon atoms) to propose a new supersymmetric field-theoretic model for this physical system. In the current literature, other…

We report the interesting possibilities related to the plasmonics and the key parameters of optoelectronics, such as the absorbance and the transmittance, in Van der Waals heterostructures of graphene monolayer on 2D transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-18 Partha Goswami

Electronic structures of the zigzag bilayer graphite nanoribbons(Z-BGNR) with various ribbon width $N$ are studied within the tight binding approximation. Neglecting the inter-layer hopping amplitude $\gamma_4$, which is an order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

We demonstrate that the emergence of a curved spacetime ``effective Lorentzian geometry'' is a common and generic result of linearizing a field theory around some non-trivial background. This investigation is motivated by considering the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

Understanding interfacial interactions in two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures is essential for advancing optoelectronic and quantum technologies. We investigate metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)-grown WSe$_2$ films (one to…

A review work is done for electronic and optical properties of graphene nanoribbons in magnetic, electric, composite, and modulated fields. Effects due to the lateral confinement, curvature, stacking, non-uniform subsystems and hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Hsien-Ching Chung , Cheng-Peng Chang , Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We present some approaches to the perturbative analysis of the classical and quantum gravity. First we introduce a graphical representation for a global SO(n) tensor $(\pl)^d h_\ab$, which generally appears in the weak field expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Shoichi Ichinose , Noriaki Ikeda

We investigated a multilayer graphene-dielectric composite material, comprising graphene sheets separated by subwavelength-thick dielectric spacer, and found it to exhibit hyperbolic isofrequency wavevector dispersion at far- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 Mohamed A. K. Othman , Caner Guclu , Filippo Capolino

The metric-affine variational principle is applied to generate teleparallel and symmetric teleparallel theories of gravity. From the latter is discovered an exceptional class which is consistent with a vanishing affine connection. Based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi Koivisto

We analyze infrared consistency conditions of 3D and 4D effective field theories with massive scalars or fermions charged under multiple $U(1)$ gauge fields. At low energies, one can integrate out the massive particles and thus obtain a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Stefano Andriolo , Daniel Junghans , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu

Beside diffeomorphism invariance also manifest SO(3,1) local Lorentz invariance is implemented in a formulation of Einstein Gravity (with or without cosmological term) in terms of initially completely independent vielbein and spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-13 W. Kummer , H. Schuetz