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Due to its strong bonds graphene can stretch up to 25% of its original size without breaking. Furthermore, mechanical deformations lead to the generation of pseudo-magnetic fields (PMF) that can exceed 300 T. The generated PMF has opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Slavisa P. Milovanovic , Francois M. Peeters

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

For gapped graphene, we predict that an intense ultrashort (single-oscillation) circularly-polarized optical pulse can induce a large population of the conduction band and a large valley polarization. With an increase in the bandgap, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 S. Azar Oliaei Motlagh , Fatemeh Nematollahi , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman

The recent synthesis of two-dimensional staggered materials opens up burgeoning opportunities to study optical spin-orbit interactions in semiconducting Dirac-like systems. We unveil topological phase transitions in the photonic spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 W. J. M. Kort-Kamp

The discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect in the early eighties of the last century, with highly precise quantization values for the Hall conductance in multiples of $e^2/h$, has been the first fascinating manifestation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Alessandro Cresti , Branislav K. Nikolić , Jose Hugo García , Stephan Roche

A stochastic nonlinear electrical characteristic of graphene is reported. Abrupt current changes are observed from voltage sweeps between the source and drain with an on/off ratio up to 10^(3). It is found that graphene channel experience…

The current flow along the boundary of graphene stripes in a perpendicular magnetic field is studied theoretically by the nonequilibrium Green's function method. In the case of specular reflections at the boundary, the Hall resistance shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Thomas Stegmann , Axel Lorke

A non-local Hall bar geometry is used to detect neutral-current Hall effects in graphene on silicon dioxide. Disorder is tuned by the addition of Au or Ir adatoms in ultra-high vacuum. A reproducible neutral-current Hall effect is found in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Yilin Wang , Xinghan Cai , Janice Reutt-Robey , Michael S. Fuhrer

Topological materials rely on engineering global properties of their bulk energy bands called topological invariants. These invariants, usually defined over the entire Brillouin zone, are related to the existence of protected edge states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 P. St-Jean , A. Dauphin , P. Massignan , B. Real , O. Jamadi , M. Milićević , A. Lemaître , A. Harouri , L. Le Gratiet , I. Sagnes , S. Ravets , J. Bloch , A. Amo

We report on the emergence of bulk, valley-polarized currents in graphene-based devices, driven by spatially varying regions of broken sublattice symmetry, and revealed by non-local resistance ($R_\mathrm{NL}$) fingerprints. By using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Thomas Aktor , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

Graphene-based superlattices offer a new materials playground to exploit and control a higher number of electronic degrees of freedom, such as charge, spin, or valley for disruptive technologies. Recently, orbital effects, emerging in…

The existence of nontrivial Berry phases associated with two inequivalent valleys in graphene provides interesting opportunities for investigating the valley-projected topological states. Examples of such studies include observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -C. Hsu , M. L. Teague , J. -Q. Wang , N. -C. Yeh

A model for energy spectrum of superlattice on the base of graphene placed on the striped dielectric substrate is proposed. A direct current component which appears in that structure perpendicularly to pulling electric field under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 D. V. Zav'yalov , V. I. Konchenkov , S. V. Kryuchkov

The aim of this work is to describe the electronic properties of graphene in a constant magnetic field in the long wavelength approximation with random binary disorder, by solving the Soven equation self-consistently. Density of state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

The critical current of a superconductor can be different for opposite directions of current flow when both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken. %When time-reversal and inversion symmetry are simultaneously broken, the critical…

Persistent currents can arise in normal-metal rings due to a magnetic flux threading the ring in equilibrium. However, can persistent currents arise in absence of magnetic flux in the same normal-metal rings? Yes they can but in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Colin Benjamin , A M Jayannavar

The generation of a fully valley-polarized current (FVPC) in bulk graphene is a fundamental goal in valleytronics. To this end, we investigate valley-dependent transport through a strained graphene modulated by a finite magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Yu Song , Feng Zhai , Yong Guo

Graphene, a two dimensional (2D) carbon sheet, acquires many of its amazing properties from the Dirac point nature of its electronic structures with negligible spin-orbit coupling. Extending to 3D space, graphene networks with negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Hongming Weng , Yunye Liang , Qiunan Xu , Rui Yu , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

We discuss valley current, which is carried by quasiparticles in graphene. We show that the valley current arises owing to a peculiar term in the electron-phonon collision integral that mixes the scalar and vector gauge-field-like vertices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ankang Liu , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

The influence of a topological defect in graphene on the ground state of electronic quasiparticle excitations is studied in the framework of the long-wavelength continuum model originating in the tight-binding approximation for the nearest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-06 Yu. A. Sitenko , N. D. Vlasii