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Trapping electrons in quantum dots and controlling their collective quantum states is crucial for converting semiconductor structures into bits of quantum information processing. Here, we study single- and two-particle states in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Angelika Knothe , Vladimir Fal'ko

We study the energy levels of carriers confined in a magnetic quantum dot of graphene surrounded by a infinite graphene sheet in the presence of energy gap. The eigenspinors are derived for the valleys $K$ and $K'$, while the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Abderrahim Farsi , Abdelhadi Belouad , Ahmed Jellal

We study the energy levels of graphene magnetic circular quantum dot surrounded by an infinite graphene sheet in the presence of an electrostatic potential. We solve Dirac equation to derive the solutions of energy spectrum associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-13 Abdelhadi Belouad , Bouchaib Lemaalem , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We predict unusual (for non-relativistic quantum mechanics) electron states in graphene, which are localized within a finite-width potential barrier. The density of localized states in the sufficiently high and/or wide graphene barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-11 V. A. Yampol'skii , S. E. Savel'ev , Franco Nori

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects realized in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and multilayer-graphene-based moir\'e heterostructures have captured a tremendous growth of interest. In this work, we propose that rhombohedral multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Yanran Shi , Bo Xie , Fengfan Ren , Xinyu Cai , Zhongqing Guo , Qiao Li , Xin Lu , Nicolas Regnault , Zhongkai Liu , Jianpeng Liu

It is known that the appearance of Klein tunneling in graphene makes it hard to keep or localize electrons in a graphene-based quantum dot (GQD). However, a magnetic field can be used to temporarily confine an electron that is traveling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Mohammed El Azar , Ahmed Bouhlal , Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Ahmed Jellal

Due to effect of Klein tunneling two-dimensional graphene quantum dots do not possess genuine bound states but quasi-bound (resonant tunneling) states only. We discuss in detail the attempt to describe these states within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 H. V. Grushevskaya , G. G. Krylov

The optical properties of graphene (Gr)-covered CsPbBr$_3$ quantum dots (QDs) were investigated using micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy, revealing a remarkable three-orders-of-magnitude enhancement in photoluminescence (PL) intensity…

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) can exhibit a range of spectacular phenomena such as the Klein-tunneling-induced quasibound states1-6 and Berry-phase-tuned energy spectra7-15. According to previous studies, all these interesting quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Hui-Ying Ren , Ya-Ning Ren , Qi Zheng , Jia-Qi He , Lin He

We report on the observation of quantum transport and interference in a graphene device that is attached with a pair of split gates to form an electrostatically-defined quantum point contact (QPC). In the low magnetic field regime, the…

We study the magnetic properties in the vicinity of a single carbon defect in a monolayer of graphene. We include the unbound $\sigma$ orbital and the vacancy induced bound $\pi$ state in an effective two-orbital single impurity model. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Daniel May , Po-Wei Lo , Kira Deltenre , Anika Henke , Jinhai Mao , Yuhang Jiang , Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei , Guang-Yu Guo , Frithjof B. Anders

This PhD tutorial article is a review of our experiments on heteronuclear quantum gas mixtures at the University of Hamburg. We introduce basic properties of trapped Fermi-Bose mixtures and demonstrate the achievement of large quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-07 C. Ospelkaus , S. Ospelkaus

We introduce the idea that the electronic band structure of a charge density wave system may mimic the electronic structure of graphene. In that case a class of materials quite different from graphene might be opened up to exploit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 John M. Vail , Oscar J. Hernandez , Ming-Su Si , Zhoufei Wang

We investigate the magnetic interface states of graphene quantum dots that contain p-n junctions. Within a tight-binding approach, we consider rectangular quantum dots in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field containing p-n, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 M. Zarenia , J. M. Pereira , F. M. Peeters , G. A. Farias

We consider the optical properties of finite systems composed of a series of graphene sheets separated by thin dielectric layers. Because these systems respond as conductors to electric fields in the plane of the graphene sheets and as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Ashley M DaSilva , You-Chia Chang , Ted Norris , Allan H MacDonald

We have computationally investigated absorption spectra of a specifically configured set of graphene-based molecules involving (1) a sp2 bare graphene sheet; (2) framed graphene sheets containing different chemical addends terminating…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-24 Mikhail F. Budyka , Elena F. Sheka , Nadezhda A. Popova

We have studied the transport properties of a large graphene double quantum dot under the influence of background disorder potential and magnetic field. At low temperatures, the evolution of the charge-stability diagram as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. L. Chiu , M. R. Connolly , A. Cresti , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , C. G. Smith

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

We study the density of states in graphene at high magnetic field, when the physics is dominated by strong correlations between electrons. In particular we use the method of Haldane pseudopotentials to focus on almost empty or almost filled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lih-King Lim , M. O. Goerbig , Cristina Bena

Strong Goos-H\"anchen (GH) effect at a prism-graphene interface in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) condition is reported. Based on the full quantum description of the temperature-dependent surface conductivity of graphene present in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 D. Jahani , O. Akhavan , A. Alidoust Ghatar