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A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

The spectrum of two-dimensional (2D) plasma waves in graphene has been recently studied in the Dirac fermion model. We take into account the whole dispersion relation for graphene electrons in the tight binding approximation and the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Timur Tudorovskiy , Sergey A. Mikhailov

Plasmon are collective oscillations of mobile electrons with dynamics controlled by their charge stiffness("Drude weight"). Using terahertz spacetime metrology, we probe Plasmon dynamics of mono- and bi-layer graphene. In both systems, the…

Domain walls separating regions of AB and BA interlayer stacking in bilayer graphene have attracted attention as novel examples of structural solitons, topological electronic boundaries, and nanoscale plasmonic scatterers. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Guang-Xin Ni , Zachariah Addison , Jing K. Shi , Xiaomeng Liu , Frank Zhao , P. Kim , E. J. Mele , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

Graphene is a valuable 2D platform for plasmonics as illustrated in recent THz and mid-infrared optics experiments. These high-energy plasmons however, couple to the dielectric surface modes giving rise to hybrid plasmon-polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 H. Graef , D. Mele , M. Rosticher , C. Stampfer , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Bocquillon , G. Fève , J-M. Berroir , E. H. T. Teo , B. Plaçais

Artifical superlattice (SL) potentials have been employed extensively for band structure engineering of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electron gas in graphene. While such engineered electronic band structures can modify optical or plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets

We construct the new one-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonians that are spectrally isomorphic (not isospectral) with the known exactly solvable models. Explicit formulas for their spectra and eigenstates are provided. The operators are utilized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Vit Jakubsky

A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as massless Dirac particles rather than fermions obeying the usual…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-27 T. O. Wehling , A. M. Black-Schaffer , A. V. Balatsky

Confinement of electromagnetic fields at the subwavelength scale via metamaterial paradigms is an established method to engineer light-matter interaction in most common material systems, from insulators to semiconductors, from metals to…

We discuss plasmonic excitations in a thin slab of a topological insulators. In the limit of no hybridization of the surface states and same electronic density of the two layers, the electrostatic coupling between the top and bottom layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos , L. Brey

We investigate the optical properties of layered structures with graphene at the interface for arbitrary linear polarization at finite temperature including full retardation by working in the Weyl gauge. As a special case, we obtain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos

Surface plasmons in graphene may provide an attractive alternative to noble-metal plasmons due to their tighter confinement, peculiar dispersion, and longer propagation distance. We present theoretical studies of the nonlinear difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xianghan Yao , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

The dispersion relation for the collective plasma excitations of optically dressed Dirac electrons in single and double graphene layers is calculated in the random-phase approximation. The presence of circularly polarized light gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

Twisted bilayer graphene is an excellent example of highly correlated system demonstrating a nearly flat electron band, the Mott transition and probably a spin liquid state. Besides the one-electron picture, analysis of Dirac points is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-28 V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. N. Skryabin

Recent experimental studies on graphene on hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) have demonstrated that hBN is not only a passive substrate that ensures superb electronic properties of graphene's carriers, but that it actively modifies their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Andrea Tomadin , Francisco Guinea , Marco Polini

Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

We present numerical and analytical results for the optical and acoustic plasmon collective modes of coupled massless-Dirac two-dimensional electron systems. Our results apply to topological insulator (TI) thin films and to two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 Rosario E. V. Profumo , Reza Asgari , Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald

Bistability-two distinct stable states under identical parameter-is not only a fundamental physical concept but also of importance in practical applications. While plasmon-polaritonic bistability representing history-dependent stable states…

Large photon drag effect of the massless Dirac Fermions in intrinsic graphene is predicted for a graphene-on-plasmonic-layer system. The surface plasmons in the plasmonic layer enlarge the wave number of photon for hundreds of time of that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Ma Luo , Zhibing Li

We have considered a system of two topological insulators and have determined the properties of the surface states at the junction. Here we report that these states, under certain conditions exhibit superluminous (tachyonic) dispersion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty