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We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

The electronic properties of graphene may be changed from semimetallic to semiconducting by introducing perforations (antidots) in a periodic pattern. The properties of such graphene antidot lattices (GALs) have previously been studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 S. J. Brun , M. R. Thomsen , T. G. Pedersen

A recent surprising finding that electronic compressibility measured experimentally in monolayer graphene can be described solely in terms of the kinetic energy [J. Martin, et al., Nat. Phys. 4, 144 (2008)] is explained theoretically as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Pekka Pietiläinen , Tapash Chakraborty

Electron-electron interactions in a Weyl semimetal are rigorously investigated in a lattice model by non perturbative methods. The absence of quantum phase transitions is proved for interactions not too large and short ranged. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Vieri Mastropietro

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

We study the many-body theory of graphene Dirac quasiparticles interacting via the long-range Coulomb potential, taking as a starting point the ladder approximation to different vertex functions. We test in this way the low-energy behavior…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Gonzalez

We have investigated the absorption spectrum of multilayer graphene in high magnetic fields. The low energy part of the spectrum of electrons in graphene is well described by the relativistic Dirac equation with a linear dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Plochocka , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , M. L. Sadowski , G. Martinez , M. Potemski , M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

Low-energy single-electron dynamics in graphene monolayers and similar nanostructures is described by the Dirac model, being a 2+1 dimensional version of massless QED with the speed of light replaced by the Fermi velocity v_{F}=c/300.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

The dynamical conductivity of interacting multiband electronic systems derived in Ref.[1] is shown to be consistent with the general form of the Ward identity. Using the semiphenomenological form of this conductivity formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 I. Kupcic

We derive and analyze the f-sum rule for a two-dimensional (2D) system of interacting electrons whose behavior is described by the Dirac equation. We apply the sum rule to analyze the spectral weight transfer in graphene within different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Sabio , J. Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

We present a phenomenological theory of the low energy moir\'e minibands of Dirac electrons in graphene placed on an almost commensurate hexagonal underlay with a unit cell pproximately three times larger than that of graphene.A slight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. R. Wallbank , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

The low energy excitations of graphene can be described by a massless Dirac equation in two spacial dimensions. Curved graphene is proposed to be described by coupling the Dirac equation to the corresponding curved space. This covariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria A. H. Vozmediano , Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo

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

Electrons in graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride are modelled by Dirac fermions in a correlated random-mass landscape subject to a scalar- and vector-potential disorder. We find that the system is insulating in the commensurate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 M. Titov , M. I. Katsnelson

In the case of the one-electron Dirac equation with a point nucleus the Virial Theorem (VT) states that the ratio of the kinetic energy to potential energy is exactly $-1$, a ratio that can be an independent test of the accuracy of a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Charlotte Froese Fischer , Michel Godefroid

Massless Dirac particles on the helicoid are theoretically investigated. With its possible application being helical graphene, we explore how the peculiarities of Dirac particles appear on the curved, screw-symmetric surface. The zweibein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Masataka Watanabe , Hisato Komatsu , Naoto Tsuji , Hideo Aoki

The prototypical exciton model of two interacting Dirac particles in graphene was analyzed in [1] and it was found that in one of the electron-hole scattering channels the total kinetic energy vanishes, resulting in a singular behaviour. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Lachlan L. Marnham , Andrey V. Shytov

Electrons in solids are characterized by the energy bands, which indicate that electrons are considered to be "elementary particles" with specific effective masses and g-factors reflecting features of each solid. There are cases where these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hidetoshi Fukuyama , Akito Kobayashi , Yoshikazu Suzumura