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We study the effect of a uniform pseudomagnetic field, induced by a strain in a monolayer and double layer of gapped graphene, acting on excitons. For our analysis it is crucial that the pseudomagnetic field acts on the charges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Yurii E. Lozovik , Klaus G. Ziegler

In this paper, we investigate the two competing effects of strains and magnetic fields in single-layer graphene to explore its impact on various phenomena of quantum field theory, such as induced charge density, magnetic catalysis, symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 J. A. Sánchez-Monroy , C. J. Quimbay

Theoretical research has predicted that ripples of graphene generates effective gauge field on its low energy electronic structure and could lead to zero-energy flat bands, which are the analog of Landau levels in real magnetic fields. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Lan Meng , Wen-Yu He , Hong Zheng , Mengxi Liu , Hui Yan , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Keke Bai , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

Patterning graphene into various mesoscopic devices such as nanoribbons, quantum dots, etc. by lithographic techniques has enabled the guiding and manipulation of graphene's Dirac-type charge carriers. Graphene, with well-defined strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-09 Péter Nemes-Incze , Gergő Kukucska , János Koltai , Jenő Kürti , Chanyong Hwang , Levente Tapasztó , László P. Biró

We study the electronic correlation effects in armchair graphene nanoribbons that have been recently proposed to be the building blocks of spin qubits. The armchair edges give rise to peculiar quantum interferences and lead to quenched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yen-Chen Lee , Hsiu-Hau Lin

We describe the formation of superconducting states in graphene in the presence of pseudo-Landau levels induced by strain, when time reversal symmetry is preserved. We show that superconductivity in strained graphene is quantum critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-29 Bruno Uchoa , Yafis Barlas

We report on (magneto)-transport experiments in chemically derived narrow graphene nanoribbons under high magnetic fields (up to 60 Tesla). Evidences of field-dependent electronic confinement features are given, and allow estimating the…

Applying time-periodic modulations is routinely used to control and design synthetic matter in quantum-engineered settings. In lattice systems, this approach is explored to engineer band structures with non-trivial topological properties,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-28 Maxime Jamotte , Nathan Goldman , Marco Di Liberto

In graphene, long-wavelength deformations that result in elastic shear strain couple to the low-energy Dirac electrons as pseudogauge fields. Using a scalable tight-binding model, we consider analogs to magnetotransport in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Christophe De Beule , Jia-Tong Shi , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Denis Kochan , Klaus Richter , Ming-Hao Liu

We generalize the scalable tight-binding model for graphene, which allows for efficient quantum transport simulations in the Dirac regime, to account for elastic strain. We show that the original scalable model with scaling factor $s$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ming-Hao Liu , Christophe De Beule , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Hsin-You Wu , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Denis Kochan , Klaus Richter

Networks of graphene-based topological domain walls function as nano-scale interferometers of zero-line modes, with magnetic field and(or) scalar potential as the controlling parameters. In the absence of externally applied magnetic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ma Luo

In this study, we describe a new experimental approach based on constant-current scanning tunneling spectroscopy to controllably and reversibly pull freestanding graphene membranes up to 35 nm from their equilibrium height. In addition, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-09 P. Xu , Y. Yang , S. D. Barber , M. L. Ackerman , J. K. Schoelz , D. Qi , I. A. Kornev , L. Dong , L. Bellaiche , S. Barraza-Lopez , P. M. Thibado

We design a quantum spin heat engine using spin polarized ballistic modes generated in a strained graphene monolayer doped with a magnetic impurity. We observe remarkably large efficiency and large thermoelectric figure of merit both for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 Arjun Mani , Subhajit Pal , Colin Benjamin

We report an approach to confine the carriers in single-layer graphene, which leads to quantum devices with field-induced quantum confinement. We demonstrated that the Coulomb-blockade effect evolves under a uniform magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 S. Moriyama , Y. Morita , E. Watanabe , D. Tsuya

We obtain the wave function of field emission from graphene in magnetic field. The emission image reveals structure of the Landau levels and depends on the phase difference between two sub-lattices. The emission pattern is sensitive to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jingkun Chen , Zhibing Li , Weiliang Wang

Landau level quantization in graphene reflects the Dirac nature of its quasiparticles and has been found to exhibit an unusual integer quantum Hall effect. In particular the lowest Landau level can be thought as shared equally by electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-28 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov , J. P. Carbotte

Quantum spins, referred to the spin operator preserved by full SU(2) symmetry in the absence of the magnetic anistropy, have been proposed to host exotic interactions with superconductivity4. However, spin orbit coupling and crystal field…

Inhomogeneous strain applied to lattice systems can induce artificial gauge fields for particles moving on this lattice. Here we demonstrate how to engineer a novel state of matter, namely an antiferromagnet with a Landau-level excitation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-18 Mary Madelynn Nayga , Stephan Rachel , Matthias Vojta

We investigate the quantum Hall effect in graphene. We argue that in graphene in presence of an external magnetic field there is dynamical generation of mass by a rearrangement of the Dirac sea. We show that the mechanism breaks the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Paolo Cea