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Exotic properties in single or few layers of van der Waals materials carry great promise for applications in nanoscaled electronics, optoelectronics and flexible devices. The established, distinct examples include extremely high mobility…

We study the dynamics of Dirac and Weyl electrons in disordered point-node semimetals. The ballistic feature of the transport is demonstrated by simulating the wave-packet dynamics on lattice models. We show that the ballistic transport…

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Electrons in isolated graphene layers are a two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac Fermions. In realistic devices, however, the electronic properties are modified by elastic deformations, interlayer coupling and substrate interaction. Here…

In recent years, graphene and other two-dimensional Dirac materials like silicene, germanene, etc. have been studied from different points of view: from mathematical physics, condensed matter physics to high energy physics. In this study,…

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Planar topological superconductors with power-law-decaying pairing display different kinds of topological phase transitions where quasiparticles dubbed nonlocal-massive Dirac fermions emerge. These exotic particles form through long-range…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 T. O. Puel , O. Viyuela

The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Relativistic massless charged particles in a two-dimensional conductor can be guided by a one-dimensional electrostatic potential, in an analogous manner to light guided by an optical fiber. We use a carbon nanotube to generate such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Austin Cheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Philip Kim , Jean-Damien Pillet

We discuss localization properties of the Dirac-like electronic states in monolayers of graphite. In the framework of a general disorder model, we identify the conditions under which such standard localization effects as logarithmic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Khveshchenko

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

We present a theory of electronic transport in graphene in the presence of randomly placed adsorbates. Our analysis predicts a marked asymmetry of the conductivity about the Dirac point, as well as a negative weak-localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 John P. Robinson , Henning Schomerus , Laszlo Oroszlany , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The magnetic properties of disordered graphene and irradiated graphite are systematically studied using a combination of mean-field Hubbard model and first-principles calculations. By considering large-scale disordered models of graphene, I…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-17 Oleg V. Yazyev

Bilayer graphene is a highly promising material for electronic and optoelectronic applications since it is supporting massive Dirac fermions with a tuneable band gap. However, no consistent picture of the gap's effect on the optical and…

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

Wave propagation control by spatial modulation of velocity has a long history in optics and acoustics. We address velocity-modulation control of electron wave propagation in graphene and other two-dimensional Dirac-electron systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Arnaud Raoux , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. R. Hamilton , Rosario Fazio , A. H. MacDonald

We study the conductivity of graphene with a smooth but particle-hole-asymmetric disorder potential. Using perturbation theory for the weak-disorder regime and numerical calculations we investigate how the particle-hole asymmetry shifts the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Max Hering , Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer

The electronic density of states of graphene is equivalent to that of relativistic electrons. In the absence of disorder or external doping the Fermi energy lies at the Dirac point where the density of states vanishes. Although transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , J. H. Smet , K. von Klitzing , A. Yacoby

The electric conductance of a strip of undoped graphene increases in the presence of a disorder potential, which is smooth on atomic scales. The phenomenon is attributed to impurity-assisted resonant tunneling of massless Dirac fermions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Titov

For electron optics in graphene, the propagation effect has so far been the only physical mechanism available. The resulting electron-optics-based components are large in size and operate at low temperatures to avoid violating the ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ruihuang Zhao , Pengcheng Wan , Ling Zhou , Di Huang , Haiqin Guo , Hao Xia , Junjie Du

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 predict that graphene is a unique system where disorder-assisted scattering (supercollisions) dominates electron-lattice cooling over a wide range of temperatures, up to room temperature. This is so because for momentum-conserving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Justin C. W. Song , Michael Y. Reizer , Leonid S. Levitov