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We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

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We examine the energy spectrum of a charged particle in the presence of a {\it non-rotating} finite electric dipole. For {\emph{any}} value of the dipole moment $p$ above a certain critical value p_{\mathrm{c}}$ an infinite series of bound…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-10 Dániel Schumayer , Brandon P. van Zyl , Rajat K. Bhaduri , David A. W. Hutchinson

Various types of topological defects in graphene are considered in the framework of the continuum model for long-wavelength electronic excitations, which is based on the Dirac--Weyl equation. The condition for the electronic wave function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-04 Yu. A. Sitenko , N. D. Vlasii

We present a unified theory of charge carrier transport in 2D Dirac systems with broken mirror inversion and time-reversal symmetries (e.g., as realized in ferromagnetic graphene). We find that the entanglement between spin and pseudospin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira

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…

Efimov effect refers to quantum states with discrete scaling symmetry and a universal scaling factor, and has attracted considerable interests from nuclear to atomic physics communities. In a Dirac semi-metal, when an electron interacts…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-20 Pengfei Zhang , Hui Zhai

Transport of massless Dirac fermions in graphene monolayers is analyzed in the presence of a combination of singular magnetic barriers and applied electrostatic potential. Extending a recently proposed (J Phys. Cond. Matt. Vol 21, 292204…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-20 Manish Sharma , Sankalpa Ghosh

We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Graphene multilayers are grown epitaxially on single crystal silicon carbide. This system is composed of several graphene layers of which the first layer is electron doped due to the built-in electric field and the other layers are…

Understanding Dirac-like Fermions has become an imperative in modern condensed matter sciences: all across its research frontier, from graphene to high T$_c$ superconductors to the topological insulators and beyond, various electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Oskar Vafek , Ashvin Vishwanath

We investigate spin transport through ferromagnetic graphene vertical heterostructures where a sandwiched tunneling layer is either a normal or ferroelectric insulator. We show that the spin-polarization of the tunneling current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Nojoon Myoung , Hee Chul Park , Seung Joo Lee

We theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 K. Kechedzhi , S. Das Sarma

Electron fractionalization is intimately related to topology. In one-dimensional systems, fractionally charged states exist at domain walls between degenerate vacua. In two-dimensional systems, fractionalization exists in quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chang-Yu Hou , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

We study the Dirac equation for quasiparticles in gapped graphene with two oppositely charged impurities by using the technique of linear combination of atomic orbitals and variational Galerkin--Kantorovich method. We show that for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-03 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

The edges of graphene and graphene like systems can host localized states with evanescent wave function with properties radically different from those of the Dirac electrons in bulk. This happens in a variety of situations, that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 J. L. Lado , N. Garcia-Martinez , J. Fernandez-Rossier

One of the most interesting predictions resulting from quantum physics, is the violation of classical symmetries, collectively referred to as anomalies. A remarkable class of anomalies occurs when the continuous scale symmetry of a scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 O. Ovdat , Jinhai Mao , Yuhang Jiang , E. Y. Andrei , E. Akkermans

The electrical conductivity of graphene containing point defects is studied within the binary alloy model in its dependence on the Fermi level position at the zero temperature. It is found that the minimal conductivity value does not have a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Yuriy V. Skrypnyk , Vadim M. Loktev

The combination of Dirac physics and elasticity has been explored at length in graphene where the so--called "elastic gauge fields" have given rise to an entire new field of research and applications: Straintronics. The fact that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Alberto Cortijo , Yago Ferreirós , Karl Landsteiner , María A. H. Vozmediano

We explore the gapped graphene structure in the two-dimensional plane in the presence of the Rosen-Morse potential and an external uniform magnetic field. In order to describe the corresponding structure, we consider the propagation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 A. Kalani , Alireza Amani , M. A. Ramzanpour