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This paper is the first in a series revisiting the Faraday effect, or more generally, the theory of electronic quantum transport/optical response in bulk media in the presence of a constant magnetic field. The independent electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Horia D. Cornean , G. Nenciu , Thomas G. Pedersen

Charge carrier transport in single-layer graphene with one-dimensional charged defects is studied theoretically. Extended charged defects, considered an important factor for mobility degradation in chemically-vapor-deposited graphene, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-15 T. M. Radchenko , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko , A. Ferreira

We examine the photoconductivity of an intrinsic graphene associated with far- and mid-infrared irradiation at low temperatures. The model under consideration accounts for the excitation of the electron-hole pairs by incident radiation, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-27 F. T. Vasko V. Ryzhii

The role of defect-induced zero-energy modes on charge transport in graphene is investigated using Kubo and Landauer transport calculations. By tuning the density of random distributions of monovacancies either equally populating the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Alessandro Cresti , Frank Ortmann , Thibaud Louvet , Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

The adsorption of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine diatomic molecules on graphene has been investigated using density functional theory with taking into account nonlocal correlation effects by means of vdW-DF approach. It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 A. N. Rudenko , F. J. Keil , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

Hydrogen adsorption on graphene in commensurate periodic arrangements leads to bandgap opening at the Dirac point and the emergence of dispersionless midgap bands. We study these bandgap effects and their dependence on periodicity for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 Mahboobeh Mirzadeh , Mani Farjam

Transport of massless Dirac fermions in graphene monolayers is analyzed in the presence of a combination of singular magnetic barriers and applied electrostatic potential. Extending a recently proposed (J Phys. Cond. Matt. Vol 21, 292204…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-20 Manish Sharma , Sankalpa Ghosh

Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Judit Sári , Mark O. Goerbig , Csaba Toke

We calculate the finite-frequency conductivity of bilayer graphene with a relative twist between the layers. The low frequency response at zero doping shows a flat conductivity with value twice that of the monolayer case and at higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

We have developed a Hartree-Fock theory for electrons on a honeycomb lattice aiming to solve a long-standing problem of the Fermi velocity renormalization in graphene. Our model employs no fitting parameters (like an unknown band cutoff)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 T. Stauber , P. Parida , M. Trushin , M. V. Ulybyshev , D. L. Boyda , J. Schliemann

In this review article we discuss the recent progress in studying ballistic transport for charge carriers in graphene through highly inhomogenous magnetic field known as magnetic barrier in combination with gate voltage induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

In the presence of an external magnetic field, the optical response of two-dimensional materials, whose charge carriers behave as massless Dirac fermions with arbitrary anisotropic Fermi velocity, is investigated. Using Kubo formalism, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

We investigate optical transitions of non-interacting electron systems consisting of two symmetric energy bands touching each other at the Fermi energy (e.g. graphene at half filling). Optical conductivity is obtained using Kubo formula at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Ádám Bácsi , Attila Virosztek

We study the DC transport of finite graphene samples with random gap. Using Dirac fermions to describe the low-energy physics near the Dirac point, we employ a generalized Drude form for the conductivity. The latter is constant for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-14 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner

We investigate the conductivity of graphene sheet deformed over a gate. The effect of the deformation on the conductivity is twofold: The lattice distortion can be represented as pseudovector potential in the Dirac equation formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Medvedyeva , Ya. M. Blanter

The optical conductivity of graphene nanoribbons is analytical and exactly derived. It is shown that the absence of translation invariance along the transverse direction allows considerable intra-band absorption in a narrow frequency window…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 F. Hipolito , A. J. Chaves , R. M. Ribeiro , M. I. Vasilevskiy , Vitor M. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres

We numerically and experimentally investigate graphene-based optical absorbers that exploit guided mode resonances (GMRs) achieving perfect absorption over a bandwidth of few nanometers (over the visible and near-infrared ranges) with a…

The unique terahertz properties of graphene has been identified for novel optoelectronic applications. In a graphene sample with bias voltage added, there is an enhanced absorption in the far infrared region and a diminished absorption in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 Yuan Yang , Grigory Kolesov , Lucas Kocia , Eric J. Heller