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In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing phenomenon arises with the intrinsic charge transport behavior at the Dirac point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Xu Du

We consider a noncommutative description of graphene. This description consists of a Dirac equation for massless Dirac fermions plus noncommutative corrections, which are treated in the presence of an external magnetic field. We argue that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-16 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami , N. Dias , J. Prata

In this paper, we study the massive Dirac equation with the presence of the Morse potential in polar coordinate. The Dirac Hamiltonian is written as two second-order differential equations in terms of two spinor wavefunctions. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Z. Zali , Alireza Amani , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

Two-dimensional electrons in graphene are known to behave as massless fermions with Dirac-Weyl type linear dispersion near the Dirac crossing points. We have investigated the collective excitations of this system in the presence or absence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim Apalkov , Xue-Feng Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

We study the quasiparticle properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions when the many-body states possess a finite momentum density in the clean limit. The lack of Galilean invariance endows the many-body states at finite momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Inti Sodemann

We establish an analogy between spectra of Dirac fermions in laser fields and an electron spectrum of graphene superlattices formed by static 1D periodic potentials. The general relations between a laser-controlled spectrum where electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sergey E. Savel'ev , Alexandre S. Alexandrov

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

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

Our previous results on the nonperturbative calculations of the mean current and of the energy-momentum tensor in QED with the T-constant electric field are generalized to arbitrary dimensions. The renormalized mean values are found; the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-24 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , N. Yokomizo

We consider graphene superlattice miniband fermions probed by electronic interferometry in magneto-transport experiments. By decoding the observed Fabry-P\'erot interference patterns together with our corresponding quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Kraft , M. -H. Liu , P. B. Selvasundaram , S. -C. Chen , R. Krupke , K. Richter , R. Danneau

We theoretically study the electronic transport properties of Dirac fermions through one and double triangular barriers in graphene. Using the transfer matrix method, we determine the transmission, conductance and Fano factor. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

Graphene, as a promising material of post-silicon electronics, opens a new paradigm for the novel electronic properties and device applications. On the other hand, the 2D feature of graphene makes it technically challenging to be integrated…

We present measurements of transmission and reflection spectra of a microwave photonic crystal composed of 874 metallic cylinders arranged in a triangular lattice. The spectra show clear evidence of a Dirac point, a characteristic of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 S. Bittner , B. Dietz , M. Miski-Oglu , P. Oria Iriarte , A. Richter , F. Schaefer

The discovery of graphene has stimulated enormous interest in two-dimensional (2D) electron gas with linear band structure. 2D Dirac materials possess many intriguing physical properties such as high carrier mobility and zero-energy Landau…

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac-like electron gases have attracted tremendous research interest ever since the discovery of free-standing graphene. The linear energy dispersion and non-trivial Berry phase play the pivotal role in the remarkable…

The response of Dirac fermions to a Coulomb potential is predicted to differ significantly from the behavior of non-relativistic electrons seen in traditional atomic and impurity systems. Surprisingly, many key theoretical predictions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Yang Wang , Victor W. Brar , Andrey V. Shytov , Qiong Wu , William Regan , Hsin-Zon Tsai , Alex Zettl , Leonid S. Levitov , Michael F. Crommie

Coulomb drag between two unhybridized graphene sheets separated by a dielectric spacer has recently attracted considerable theoretical interest. We first review, for the sake of completeness, the main analytical results which have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-27 M. Carrega , T. Tudorovskiy , A. Principi , M. I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

Macroscopic concentration of massless charge carriers with linear conic spectrum - Dirac Fermions (DF) - was shown in 2004 to exist in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and governs its electronic properties. These carriers can have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-18 I. Luk'yanchuk , Y. Kopelevich , M. El Marssi

Dirac points in two-dimensional (2D) materials have been a fascinating subject of research, with graphene as the most prominent example. However, the Dirac points in existing 2D materials, including graphene, are vulnerable against…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-13 Shan Guan , Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Shan-Shan Wang , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We study a confined system of Dirac fermions in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic field. Splitting the system into different regions, we determine their corresponding energy spectrum solutions. We underline their physical properties by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ahmed Jellal , Abderrahim El Mouhafid