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We resolve some apparent discrepancies between two different models for curved graphene: the one based on tight binding and elasticity theory, and the covariant approach based on quantum field theory in curved space. We demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Fernando de Juan , Mauricio Sturla , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We study quantum transport and scattering of massless Dirac fermions by spatially localized static magnetic fields. The employed model describes in a unified manner the effects of orbital magnetic fields, Zeeman and exchange fields in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Zazunov , A. Kundu , A. Hütten , R. Egger

The computation of the optical conductivity of strained and deformed graphene is discussed within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spaces. The analytical solutions of the Dirac equation in an arbitrary static background…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-01 W. de Paula , a. Chaves , O. Oliveira , T. Frederico

We consider the effect of the Coulomb interaction in strained graphene using tight-binding approximation together with the Hartree-Fock interactions. The many-body energy dispersion relation, anisotropic Fermi velocity renormalization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Rostami , Reza Asgari

To construct Lagrangian based on plate theory and tight-binding model, deflection-field coupling to Dirac fermions in graphene can be investigated. As have been known, deflection-induced strain may cause an effect on the motion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Bumned Soodchomshom

The electromagnetic response of graphene, expressed by the dielectric function, and the spectrum of collective excitations are studied as a function of wave vector and frequency. Our calculation is based on the full band structure,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-03 A. Hill , S. A. Mikhailov , K. Ziegler

In this work we investigate the influence of a Fermi velocity modulation on the Fano factor of periodic and quasi-periodic graphene superlattices. We consider the continuum model and use the transfer matrix method to solve the Dirac-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jonas R. F. Lima , Anderson L. R. Barbosa , C. G. Bezerra , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira

Anisotropic Dirac cones can appear in a number of correlated electron systems, such as cuprate superconductors and deformed graphene. We study the influence of long-range Coulomb interaction on the physical properties of an anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu

The dynamics of Dirac semimetals is modeled at low energies by the massless Dirac Hamiltonian with the Fermi velocity replacing the velocity of light. The classical action is scale invariant. In 3D materials, Coulomb interactions induce a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Matteo Baggioli , Maxim N. Chernodub , Karl Landsteiner , Alessandro Principi , María A. H. Vozmediano

The electrons found in Dirac materials are notorious for being difficult to manipulate due to the Klein phenomenon and absence of backscattering. Here we investigate how spatial modulations of the Fermi velocity in two-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Optical properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions are considered by the formalism of pseudospin precession equations which provides an easy and natural semiphenomenological way to include correlation effects. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 M. I. Katsnelson

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Tworzydlo , B. Trauzettel , M. Titov , A. Rycerz , C. W. J. Beenakker

The proposals for realizing exotic particles through coupling of quantum Hall effect to superconductivity involve spatially non-uniform magnetic fields. As a step toward that goal, we study, both theoretically and experimentally, a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Jonathan Schirmer , Ravi Kumar , Vivas Bagwe , Pratap Raychaudhuri , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , C. -X. Liu , Anindya Das , J. K. Jain

Slowly varying nonuniform strains of non-magnetic wave propagating media with honeycomb symmetry induce an effective- or pseudo-magnetic field, a phenomenon observed first in graphene, and later in photonic crystals and other physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xuenan Li , Michael I. Weinstein

Nonuniform elastic strain is known to induce pseudo-Landau levels in Dirac materials. But these pseudo-Landau levels are hardly resolvable in an analytic fashion when the strain is strong, because of the emerging complicated space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Tianyu Liu , Hai-Zhou Lu

Two-dimensional carbon, or graphene, is a semi-metal that presents unusual low-energy electronic excitations described in terms of Dirac fermions. We analyze in a self-consistent way the effects of localized (impurities or vacancies) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

Very recently, the standard description of electrons in strained graphene has been completed by the explicit inclusion of the lattice deformation. Here, the effect of these lattice corrections is taken into account to find the mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 M. Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo G. Naumis

Basically (2 + 1) dimensional Dirac equation with real deformed Lorentz scalar potential is investi gated in this study. The position dependent Fermi velocity function transforms Dirac Hamiltonian into a Klein-Gordon-like effective…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 O. Yesiltas , B. Cagatay

This paper concerns the asymmetric transport associated with a low-energy interface Dirac model of graphene-type materials subject to external magnetic and electric fields. We show that the relevant physical observable, an interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Solomon Quinn , Guillaume Bal