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We study forward scattering of 2D massless Dirac electrons at Fermi energy {\varepsilon} > 0 in single layer graphene through a 1D rectangular barrier of height {u_0} in the presence of uniform Rashba spin-orbit coupling (of strength…

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We present the electronic properties of massless Dirac fermions characterized by geometry and topology on a graphene sheet in this chapter. Topological effects can be elegantly illuminated by the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. It leads to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-01 Kee-Su Park

Dirac fermions have been studied intensively in condensed matter physics in recent years. Many theoretical predictions critically depend on the number of valleys where the Dirac fermions are realized. In this work, we report the discovery…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 B. Büttner , C. X. Liu , G. Tkachov , E. G. Novik , C. Brüne , H. Buhmann , E. M. Hankiewicz , P. Recher , B. Trauzettel , S. C. Zhang , L. W. Molenkamp

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

Motivated by the appearance of a `reflection symmetry' in transport experiments and the absence of statistical periodicity in relativistic quantum field theories, we propose a series of relativistic composite fermion theories for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-05 Hart Goldman , Eduardo Fradkin

Generalizing the notion of composite fermions to the "pseudo-relativistic" Quantum Hall phenomena in graphene, we discuss a possible emergence of compressible states at the filling factors -3/2, -1/2, 1/2, 3/2. This analysis is further…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Khveshchenko

Massless Dirac fermions in graphene provide unprecedented opportunities to realize the Klein paradox, which is one of the most exotic and striking properties of relativistic particles. In the seminal theoretical work [Katsnelson et al.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Bin Qiao , Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , Lin He

We develop a microscopic theory of the weak localization of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions which is valid in the whole range of classically weak magnetic fields. The theory is applied to calculate magnetoresistance caused by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 M. O. Nestoklon , N. S. Averkiev , S. A. Tarasenko

We evaluate the dispersion relation for massless fermions, described by the Dirac equation, and for zero-spin bosons, described by the Klein-Gordon equation, moving in two dimensions and in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 M. Barbier , F. M. Peeters , P. Vasilopoulos , J. Milton Pereira

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

We employed first-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations to characterize Dirac electrons in quasi-two-dimensional molecular conductor $\alpha$-(BETS)$_2$I$_3$ [= $\alpha$-(BEDT-TSeF)$_2$I$_3$] at a low temperature of 30K.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-18 Takao Tsumuraya , Yoshikazu Suzumura

We perform a symmetry analysis of a 2D electron system in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells in the situation when the chemical potential is outside of the gap, so that the bulk of the quantum well is conducting. In order to investigate quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

This article provides a pedagogical review on Klein tunneling in graphene, i.e. the peculiar tunneling properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons. We consider two simple situations in detail: a massless Dirac electron incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 P. E. Allain , J. N. Fuchs

We analyze by exact Renormalization Group (RG) methods the infrared properties of an effective model of graphene, in which two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions propagating with a velocity smaller than the speed of light interact with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-25 Alessandro Giuliani , Vieri Mastropietro , Marcello Porta

We investigate the unusual features of the quantum transport in gapped monolayer graphene, which is in a pseudospin symmetry-broken state with a net perpendicular pseudomagnetization. Using these pseudoferromagnets (PFs), we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Composite fermions in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are believed to form a Fermi sea of weakly interacting particles at half filling $\nu=1/2$. Recently, it was proposed (D. T. Son, Phys. Rev. X 5, 031027 (2015)) that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Antti Laitinen , Manohar Kumar , Pertti J. Hakonen

Cyclotron resonance in highly doped graphene has been explored using infrared magnetotransmission. Contrary to previous work, which only focused on the magneto-optical properties of graphene in the quantum regime, here we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 A. M. Witowski , M. Orlita , R. Stepniewski , A. Wysmolek , J. M. Baranowski , W. Strupinski , C. Faugeras , G. Martinez , M. Potemski

The properties of Dirac electrons in a magnetic superlattice (SL) on graphene consisting of very high and thin (delta-function) barriers are investigated. We obtain the energy spectrum analytically and study the transmission through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Ramezani Masir , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

The helicity flip of a spin-${\textstyle \frac{1}{2}}$ Dirac particle interacting gravitationally with a scalar field is analyzed in the context of linearized quantum gravity. It is shown that massive fermions may have their helicity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Aldrovandi , G. E. A. Matsas , S. F. Novaes , D. Spehler

We investigate the Goos-H\"{a}nchen-like shifts for Dirac fermions in transmission through a monolayer graphene barrier. The lateral shifts, as the functions of the barrier's width and the incidence angle, can be negative and positive in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 Xi Chen , Jia-Wei Tao , Yue Ban