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We theoretically demonstrate that a system formed by two coupled graphene sheets enables a negative damping regime wherein graphene plasmons are pumped by a DC current. This effect is triggered by electrons drifting through one of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

Using a semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) approach, we derive analytical expressions for electric and thermoelectric transport coefficients of graphene in the presence and absence of a magnetic field. Scattering due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Arpan Kundu , Majed Alrefae , Timothy S. Fisher

Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function formalism, we investigate the local, non-equilibrium charge transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). In particular, we demonstrate that the spatial current patterns associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Joel Mabillard , Tankut Can , Dirk K. Morr

DC photoelectrical currents can be generated purely as a non-linear effect in uniform media lacking inversion symmetry without the need for a material junction or bias voltages to drive it, in what is termed photogalvanic effect. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 F. Hipolito , Thomas G. Pedersen , Vitor M. Pereira

We present a theoretical study on the electron transmission through the AB-BA stacking boundary in multilayer graphene. Using the tight-binding model and the transfer matrix method, we calculate the electron transmission probability through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

We formulate a theory of transport in graphene bilayers in the weak momentum scattering regime in such a way as to take into account contributions to the electrical conductivity to leading and next-to-leading order in the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer , R. Winkler

We have utilized the finite-difference approach to explore electron-tunneling properties in gapped graphene through various electrostatic-potential barriers changing from Gaussian to a triangular envelope function in comparison with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Photon-assisted electron transport in ballistic graphene is analyzed using scattering theory. We show that the presence of an ac signal (applied to a gate electrode in a region of the system) has interesting consequences on electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Trauzettel , Ya. M. Blanter , A. F. Morpurgo

Exact numerical calculations of the conductivity of graphene sheets with random and correlated distributions of disorders have been performed using the time-dependent real-space Kubo formalism. The disorder was modeled by the long-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 T. M. Radchenko , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko

We calculate the transport properties of multilayer graphene, considering the effect of multisubband scattering in a high density regime, where higher subbands are occupied by charge carriers. To calculate the conductivity of multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Seungchan Woo , E. H. Hwang , Hongki Min

Non-equilibrium transport and phonon branch-resolved size effects in single-layer graphene materials are studied under a multi-temperature kinetic model, which is developed for capturing the branch-dependent electron-phonon coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Chuang Zhang , Houssem Rezgui , Meng Lian , Hong Liang

We study theoretically the electron transport properties in carbon nanotubes under the influence of an external electric field E(t) using Boltzmann's equation. The current-density equation is derived. Negative differential conductivity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 S. S. Abukari , S. Y. Mensah N. G. Mensah , K. W. Adu , K. A. Dompreh , A. K. Twum

In strongly interacting electron systems with low density and at low temperature the thermodynamic density of states is negative. It creates difficulties with understanding of the Einstein relation between conductivity and diffusion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. L. Efros

Disordered Fermi-Dirac distributions are used to model, within a straightforward and essentially phenomenological Boltzmann equation approach, the electron/hole transport across graphene puddles. We establish, with striking experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Moriconi , D. Niemeyer

In the Comment by Bordag et al. [Phys. Rev. B 113, 207401 (2026) and ArXiv:2506.10792], concerns are raised regarding the validity of the results presented in [Phys. Rev. B 111, 115428 (2025)], where the theoretical descriptions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Jian-Sheng Wang , Mauro Antezza

We present a combined theoretical approach to study the nonequilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes and exhibiting strong electron-phonon interactions. We use the Keldysh Green function formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Monreal , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

In this research work, roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposited graphene device electronic transport properties are benchmarked to elucidate and comprehend mobility degradation in the real-world commercial application of graphene devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Bhupesh Bishnoi

Coulomb coupling between proximal layers in graphene heterostructures results in efficient energy transfer between the layers. We predict that, in the presence of correlated density inhomogeneities in the layers, vertical energy transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Justin C. W. Song , Leonid S. Levitov

We describe microscopic theory for the quantum transport through finite interacting systems connected to noninteracting leads. It can be applied to small systems such as quantum dots, quantum wires, atomic chain, molecule, and so forth. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Oguri

We investigate the contribution of charge puddles to the non-vanishing conductivity minimum in disordered graphene flakes at the charge neutrality point. For that purpose, we study systems with a geometry that suppresses the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf