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The influence of scalar field interactions in the magnetic catalysis phenomenom is studied in a gauge theory with scalar and fermion fields. It is shown that the external magnetic field catalyzes the appearance of a fermion-antifermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. J. Ferrer , V. de la Incera

The physics of graphene is acting as a bridge between quantum field theory and condensed matter physics due to the special quality of the graphene quasiparticles behaving as massless two dimensional Dirac fermions. Moreover, the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea

Carbon is one of the most intriguing elements in the Periodic Table. It forms many allotropes, some being known from ancient times (diamond and graphite) and some discovered ten to twenty years ago (fullerenes, nanotubes). Quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

Massless Dirac fermions in graphene at charge neutrality form a strongly interacting system in which both charged and neutral (energy) modes play an important role. These modes are essentially decoupled in the absence of a magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Justin C. W. Song , Leonid S. Levitov

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

Magnetic catalysis is the enhancement of a condensate due to the presence of an external magnetic field. Magnetic catalysis at $T=0$ is a robust phenomenon in low-energy theories and models of QCD as well as in lattice simulations. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Jens O. Andersen

The structural and electronic properties of graphene leads its charge carriers to behave like relativistic particles, which is described by a Dirac-like Hamiltonian. Since graphene is a monolayer of carbon atoms, the strain due to elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang

It is shown that a magnetic field dramatically affects the problem of supercritical charge in graphene making any charge in gapless theory supercritical. The cases of radially symmetric potential well and Coulomb center in an homogeneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-14 O. V. Gamayun , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

Graphene is a monolayer graphitic film in which electrons behave like two-dimensional Dirac fermions without mass. Its study has attracted a wide interest in the domain of condensed matter physics. In particular, it represents an ideal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 William Borrelli , Umberto Morellini

Magnetic Catalysis is a known proposal for inducing dynamical axionic gapped phases by means of external magnetic fields from a Weyl or Dirac semimetal phase. At finite Fermi level, the phase transition is of first order type and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-30 Joan Bernabeu , Alberto Cortijo

Magneto-Raman scattering experiments from the surface of graphite reveal novel features associated to purely electronic excitations which are observed in addition to phonon-mediated resonances. Graphene-like and graphite domains are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Faugeras , M. Amado , P. Kossacki , M. Orlita , M. Kühne , A. A. L. Nicolet , Yu. I. Latyshev , M. Potemski

By solving two-component spinor equation for massless Dirac Fermions, we show that graphene under a periodic external magnetic field exhibits a unique energy spectrum: At low energies, Dirac Fermions are localized inside the magnetic region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Shuanglong Liu , Argo Nurbawono , Na Guo , Chun Zhang

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

The unique optical properties of graphene, with broadband absorption and ultrafast response, make it a critical component of optoelectronic and spintronic devices. Using time-resolved momentum microscopy with high data rate and high dynamic…

We demonstrate that the electronic spectrum of graphene in a one-dimensional periodic potential will develop a Landau level spectrum when the potential magnitude varies slowly in space. The effect is related to extra Dirac points generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 Jianmin Sun , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey

Graphene is a model system for the study of electrons confined to a strictly two-dimensional layer1 and a large number of electronic phenomena have been demonstrated in graphene, from the fractional2, 3 quantum Hall effect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jian-Hao Chen , W. G. Cullen , E. D. Williams , M. S. Fuhrer

The report presents the results of using the nonperturbative kinetic approach to describe the excitation of plasma oscillations in a graphene monolayer. As examples the constant electric field as well as an electric field of short…

Graphene's honeycomb lattice structure underlies much of the remarkable physics inherent in this material, most strikingly through the formation of two ``flavors'' of Dirac cones for each spin. In the quantum Hall regime, the resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 Jason Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We consider magnetic catalysis in a field-theoretic system of (3+1)-dimensional Dirac fermions with anisotropic kinetic term. By placing the system in a strong external magnetic field, we examine magnetically-induced fermion mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Alexandre , K. Farakos , G. Koutsoumbas , N. E. Mavromatos

Man-made artificial graphene has attracted significant attention in the past few years due to the possibilities to construct designer Dirac fermions with unexpected topological properties and applications in nanoelectronics. Here we use a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 Matti Ropo , Sami Paavilainen , Jaakko Akola , Esa Räsänen