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Graphene is a 2-dimensional material with high carrier mobility and thermal conductivity, suitable for high-speed electronics. Conduction and valence bands touch at the Dirac point. The absorptivity of single-layer graphene is 2.3%, nearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Marcus Freitag , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Mathias Steiner , Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

The dynamics of low energy charge carriers in a graphene quantum dot subjected to a time-dependent local field is investigated numerically. In particular, we study a configuration where a Coulomb electric field is provided by an ion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , P. Levesque , S. MacLean

The electronic transport properties and band structures for the graphene-based one-dimensional (1D) superlattices with periodic squared potentials are investigated. It is found that a new Dirac point is formed, which is exactly located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

In this paper, we study dynamical optimal transport on a connected graph from the perspective of the Benamou-Brenier formulation, where densities are assigned to vertices and velocities to edges. However, directly using Newton's method on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Qujiangxue Chen , Jianbo Cui , Luca Dieci , Haomin Zhou

We study how low-energy charge carriers scatter off periodic and linear graphene grain boundaries oriented along the zigzag direction with a periodicity three times greater than that of pristine graphene. These defects map the two Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 J. N. B. Rodrigues

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

Minimally twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of an interlayer bias develops a triangular network of valley chiral modes that propagate along the $AB/BA$ interfaces and scatter at the $AA$ regions. The low energy physics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 P. Wittig , F. Dominguez , C. De Beule , P. Recher

Photon-assisted electron transport in ballistic graphene is analyzed using scattering theory. We show that the presence of an ac signal (applied to a gate electrode in a region of the system) has interesting consequences on electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Trauzettel , Ya. M. Blanter , A. F. Morpurgo

Ripples in pristine freestanding graphene naturally orient themselves in an array that is alternately curved-up and curved-down; maintaining an average height of zero. Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to apply a local force, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. K. Schoelz , P. Xu , V. Meunier , P. Kumar , M. Neek-Amal , P. M. Thibado , F. M. Peeters

We analyse the interaction between charges and graphene layers. The electric polarisability of graphene induces a force, that can be described by an image charge. The analysis shows that graphene can be described as an imperfect conductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

The perfect transmission in graphene monolayer and the perfect reflection in Bernal graphene bilayer for electrons incident in the normal direction of a potential barrier are viewed as two incarnations of the Klein paradox. Here we show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Lin He

We study the effect of anisotropy on phase transitions in graphene. We work with an low energy effective field theory which is strongly coupled, and solve a coupled set of Schwinger-Dyson equations. We show that the effect of anisotropy is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 M. E. Carrington , A. R. Frey , B. A. Meggison

We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general expression of frequency and wave-vector dependent polarizability within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tao Zhu , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang

The low-energy electronic properties of strained graphene are usually obtained by transforming the bond vectors according to the Cauchy-Born rule. In this work, we derive a new effective Dirac Hamiltonian by assuming a more general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

Twistronics, harnessing interlayer rotation to tailor electronic states in van der Waals materials, has predominantly focused on small-angle regime. Here, we unveil the pivotal role of intervalley Umklapp scattering in large-angle twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Juncheng Li , Cong Chen , Wang Yao

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

Controlling the shape and position of moving and pinned droplets on a solid surface is an important feature often found in microfluidic applications. In this work, we consider a well investigated phase field model including contact line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Henning Bonart , Christian Kahle

The paper reports a theoretical study of scattering of electrons by edges in graphene and its effect on Raman scattering. First, effective models are discussed for translationally invariant and rough edges. Second, they are used in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-28 D. M. Basko

The quasi-2D electrons in graphene behave as massless fermions obeying a Dirac-Weyl equation in the low-energy regime near the two Fermi points. The stability of spin-polarized phases (SPP) in graphene is considered. The exchange energy is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Retrieving the phase of a complex-valued field from the measurements of its amplitude is a crucial problem with a wide range of applications in microscopy and ultracold atomic physics. In particular, obtaining an accurate and efficient…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-16 Andrii Torchylo