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The electronic structure of graphene on Cu(111) and Cu(100) single crystals is investigated using low energy electron microscopy, low energy electron diffraction and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. On both substrates the graphene…

We present a general virial theorem for quantum particles with arbitrary zero-range or finite-range interactions in an arbitrary external potential. We deduce virial theorems for several situations relevant to trapped cold atoms: zero-range…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Félix Werner

The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

Using the variational cluster approximation (VCA) and the cluster perturbation theory, we study the finite temperature phase diagram of a half-depleted periodic Anderson model on the honeycomb lattice at half filling for a model of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-27 Kazuhiro Seki , Tomonori Shirakawa , Qinfang Zhang , Tao Li , Seiji Yunoki

We present the symmetry labelling of all electron bands in graphene obtained by combining numerical band calculations and analytical analysis based on group theory. The latter was performed both in the framework of the (nearly) free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Eugene Kogan , Vyacheslav M. Silkin

Recent advances in the creation and modulation of graphene-like systems are introducing a science of "designer Dirac materials". In its original definition, artificial graphene is a man-made nanostructure that consists of identical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-11 E. Rasanen , C. A. Rozzi , S. Pittalis , G. Vignale

The two-dimensional carbon allotrope graphene has recently attracted a lot of attention from researchers in the disciplines of Lattice Field Theory, Lattice QCD and Monte Carlo calculations. This interest has been prompted by several…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-04 Timo A. Lähde , Joaquín E. Drut

A recently constructed model for low lying excitations in bilayer graphene exhibits mid-gap, zero energy modes in its Dirac-like spectrum, when a scalar order parameter takes a vortex profile. We show that these modes persist when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Jackiw , S. -Y. Pi

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

The low energy physics of both graphene and surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators is described by gapless Dirac fermions with linear dispersion. In this work, we predict the emergence of a "heavy" Dirac fermion in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Wendong Cao , Rui-Xing Zhang , Peizhe Tang , Gang Yang , Jorge Sofo , Wenhui Duan , Chao-Xing Liu

By comparing with recently available experimental data from several groups, we critically discuss the manifestation of continuum many body interaction effects in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) with small twist angles and low carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Sankar Das Sarma , Fengcheng Wu

The response of Dirac fermions to a Coulomb potential is predicted to differ significantly from the behavior of non-relativistic electrons seen in traditional atomic and impurity systems. Surprisingly, many key theoretical predictions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Yang Wang , Victor W. Brar , Andrey V. Shytov , Qiong Wu , William Regan , Hsin-Zon Tsai , Alex Zettl , Leonid S. Levitov , Michael F. Crommie

Migdal's theorem plays a central role in the physics of electron-phonon interactions in metals and semiconductors, and has been extensively studied theoretically for parabolic band electronic systems in three-, two-, and one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Bitan Roy , Jay Deep Sau , S. Das Sarma

Systems containing few Fermions (e.g., electrons) are of great current interest. Fluorescence occurs when electrons drop from one level to another without changing spin. Only electron gases in a state of equilibrium are considered. When the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Arnaud , L. Chusseau , F. Philippe

The Dirac-like quasiparticles in honeycomb graphene lattice are taken to possess a non-zero effective mass. The charge carriers involve to interact with a femtosecond strong laser pulse. Due to the scattering time of electrons in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Z. Ahmadi , H. Goudarzi , A. Jafari

We report on the first observation of magnetic catalysis at zero temperature in a fully nonperturbative simulation of the graphene effective field theory. Using lattice gauge theory, a nonperturbative analysis of the theory of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-28 Carleton DeTar , Christopher Winterowd , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We propose a scheme to trap and filter electrons, valley dependently, on a scale beyond the diffraction limit, in a gapped Dirac system using a circularly polarized light beam and a microscale metallic resonator. The main mechanism allowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Kevin Dini , Ivan V. Iorsh , Andrey Bogdanov , Ivan A. Shelykh

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

By combining analytic and numerical methods, edge states on a finite width graphene ribbon in a magnetic field are studied in the framework of low-energy effective theory that takes into account the possibility of quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-25 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , S. G. Sharapov , I. A. Shovkovy , C. M. Wyenberg

The unique ultra-relativistic, massless, nature of electron states in two-dimensional extended graphene sheets, brought about by the honeycomb lattice arrangement of carbon atoms in two-dimensions, provides ingress to explorations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman