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We solve the Dirac equation, which describes charge massless chiral relativistic carriers in a two-dimensional graphene. We have identified and analysed a novel pseudospin-dependent scattering effect. We compute the tunneling conductance…

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We consider a model of Dirac fermions coupled to flexural phonons to describe a graphene sheet fluctuating in dimension $2+d$. We derive the self-consistent screening equations for the quantum problem, exact in the limit of large $d$. We…

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We present a numerical approach for the solution of electromagnetic scattering from a dielectric cylinder partially covered with graphene. It is based on a classical Fourier-Bessel expansion of the fields inside and outside the cylinder to…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-07 Youssef Jeyar , Mauro Antezza , Brahim Guizal

We quantum mechanically analyze the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene. This will be done by building the corresponding states in terms of a potential governing the interactions and discussing other issues. More precisely, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Ahmed Jellal , Bellati Malika

We have investigated the transmission in monolayer graphene barrier at nonzero angle of incidence. Taking the influence of parallel wave vector into account, the transmission as the function of incidence energy has a gap due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-03 Xi Chen , Jia-Wei Tao

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

Owing to the Klein tunneling phenomenon, the permanent confinement or localization of electrons within a graphene quantum dot is unattainable. Nonetheless, a constant magnetic field can transiently ensnare an electron within the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Mohammed El Azar , Ahmed Bouhlal , Ahmed Jellal

We calculate the mode-dependent transmission probability of massless Dirac fermions through an ideal strip of graphene (length L, width W, no impurities or defects), to obtain the conductance and shot noise as a function of Fermi energy. We…

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We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in ballistic graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10 to 40 nm. We determine wavefunctions and energy level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Libisch , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer

Exact analytic solutions for an electron in graphene interacting with external complex magnetic fields are found. The eigenvalue problem for the non-hermitian Dirac-Weyl Hamiltonian leads to a pair of intertwined Schr{\"o}dinger equations,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 DJ Fernández , JD García-Muñoz

The relativistic nature of Dirac electrons and holes in graphene profoundly affects the way they interact with impurities. Signatures of the relativistic behavior have been observed recently in scanning tunneling measurements on individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

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We analyze families of measures for the quantum statistical speed which include as special cases the quantum Fisher information, the trace speed, i.e., the quantum statistical speed obtained from the trace distance, and more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Manuel Gessner , Augusto Smerzi

We investigate the transmission properties of quasiperiodic or aperiodic structures based on graphene arranged according to the Cantor sequence. In particular, we have found self-similar behaviour in the transmission spectra, and most…

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A transfer matrix approach is used to study the electronic transport in graphene superlattices with long-range correlated barrier spacements. By considering the low-energy electronic excitations as massless Dirac fermions, we compute by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Jonas R. F. Lima , Ícaro S. F. Bezerra , Marcelo L. Lyra

Quantum tunneling from a thin wire or a thin film through a static potential barrier in a zero magnetic field is studied. The wire or the film should satisfy a condition of transverse quantization of levels and be inhomogeneous. Depending…

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We study graphene quantum point contacts (QPC) and imaging of the backscattering of the Fermi level wave function by potential introduced by a scanning probe. We consider both etched single-layer QPCs as well as the ones formed by bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Bartłomiej Szafran

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk

A new class of multilayered functional materials has recently emerged in which the component atomic layers are held together by weak van der Waals forces that preserve the structural integrity and physical properties of each layer. An…

The interplay of strain engineering and photon-assisted tunneling of electrons in graphene is considered for giving rise to atypical transport phenomena. The combination of uniaxial strain and a time-periodic potential barrier helps to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Parisa Majari , Diego Espitia , Francois Leyvraz , Thomas Stegmann