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The occurrence of Landau levels in quantum mechanics when a charged particle is subjected to a uniform magnetic field is well known. Considering the recent interest in the electronic properties of graphene, which admits a dispersion…

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The pseudo-magnetic field generated by mechanical strain in graphene can have dramatic consequences on the behavior of electrons and holes. Here we show that pseudo-magnetic field fluctuations present in crumpled graphene can induce…

A class of graphene wound into three-dimensional periodic curved surfaces ("graphitic zeolites") is proposed and their electronic structures are obtained to explore how the massless Dirac fermions behave on periodic surfaces. We find in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of a ferromagnetic/strained/normal graphene junctions with central region subjected to a magnetic field $B$. An analytical approach, based on Dirac equation, is implemented to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Youness Zahidi , Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We calculate the differential, total, and transport cross-sections for scattering of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons by a circular barrier. For scatterer of a small radius, the cross-sections are dominated by quantum effects such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Jhih-Sheng Wu , Michael M. Fogler

frared reflectance spectroscopy at 4K in fields up to 31T. Both Schr\"odinger-like (K-point) and Dirac-like (H-point) Landau level transitions have been observed, and their magnetic field dispersion are analyzed by a newly-derived limiting…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 L. -C. Tung , P. Cadden-Zimansky , J. Qi , 1 Z. Jiang , D. Smirnov

The effects of a propagating sinusoidal out-of-plane flexural deformation in the electronic properties of a tense membrane of graphene are considered within a non-perturbative approach, leading to an electron-ripple coupling. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Gerardo G. Naumis

Originating from relativistic quantum field theory, Dirac fermions have been recently applied to study various peculiar phenomena in condensed matter physics, including the novel quantum Hall effect in graphene, magnetic field driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-04-10 S. Y. Zhou , G. -H. Gweon , J. Graf , A. V. Fedorov , C. D. Spataru , R. D. Diehl , Y. Kopelevich , D. -H. Lee , Steven G. Louie , A. Lanzara

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

We investigate electronic band-structure images in reciprocal space of few layer graphene epitaxially grown on SiC(000-1). In addition to the observation of commensurate rotation angles of the graphene layers, the k-space images recorded…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-19 C. Mathieu , E. H. Conrad , F. Wang , J. E. Rault , V. Feyer , C. M. Schneider , O. Renault , N. Barrett

The electron-hole symmetry in graphene monolayer, which is analogous to the inherent symmetric structure between electrons and positrons of the Universe, plays a crucial role in the chirality and chiral tunnelling of massless Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Ke-Ke Bai , Yi-Cong Wei , Jia-Bin Qiao , Si-Yu Li , Long-Jing Yin , Wei Yan , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We study quasiparticle dynamics in graphene exposed to a linearly-polarized electromagnetic wave of very large intensity. Low-energy transport in such system can be described by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 S. V. Syzranov , Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , F. Nori

We report on the observation of magnetoresistance oscillations in graphene p-n junctions. The oscillations have been observed for six samples, consisting of single-layer and bilayer graphene, and persist up to temperatures of 30 K, where…

We investigate how a localized curvature affects the dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in a curved surface. We consider a smooth bump with axial symmetry, adopting two specific geometric models, namely a Gaussian and a volcano-like bumps.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. R. N. Lima , D. F. S. Veras , J. E. G. Silva

We consider the Zitterbewegung of Dirac electrons in the monolayer graphene as the nonrelativistic analog of the phenomenon predicted by E. Schr\"odinger for the relativistic electrons in the free space. So we show that the Dirac electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

The electronic properties of non-interacting particles moving on a two-dimensional bricklayer lattice are investigated numerically. In particular, the influence of disorder in form of a spatially varying random magnetic flux is studied. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-12-22 L. Schweitzer

We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Kumar S. Gupta , Andjelo Samsarov , Siddhartha Sen

Collective excitations spectrum of Dirac electrons in mono and bilayer graphene in the presence of a uniform magnetic field is investigated. Analytical results for inter-Landau band plasmon spectrum within the self-consistent-field approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

We study theoretically the properties of buckled graphene-like materials, such as silicene and germanene, in a strong perpendicular magnetic field and a periodic potential. We analyze how the spin-orbit interaction and the perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 Vadym M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti