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The unusual transport properties of graphene are the direct consequence of a peculiar bandstructure near the Dirac point. We determine the shape of the pi bands and their characteristic splitting, and the transition from a pure 2D to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Taisuke Ohta , Aaron Bostwick , J. L. McChesney , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Eli Rotenberg

We show that the strong coupling of pseudospin orientation and charge carrier motion in bilayer graphene has a drastic effect on transport properties of ballistic p-n-p junctions. Electronic states with zero momentum parallel to the barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 Nan Gu , Mark Rudner , Leonid Levitov

We investigate the development of a gapped phase in the field theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. In the large-N approximation, we show that the chiral symmetry is only broken below a critical number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 J. Gonzalez

We consider electron waveguides (quantum wires) in graphene created by suitable inhomogeneous magnetic fields. The properties of uni-directional snake states are discussed. For a certain magnetic field profile, two spatially separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-20 T. K. Ghosh , A. De Martino , W. Häusler , L. Dell'Anna , R. Egger

This work reports the three-band structure associated with a Lieb lattice with arbitrary nearest and next-nearest neighbors hopping interactions. For specific configurations, the system admits a flat band located between two dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Kevin Zelaya , Vit Jakubský

We report the formation of bound states in the continuum for Dirac-like fermions in structures composed by a trilayer graphene flake connected to nanoribbon leads. The existence of this kind of localized states can be proved by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Cortés , Leonor Chico , M. Pacheco , L. Rosales , P. A. Orellana

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of a ferromagnetic/strained/normal graphene junctions with central region subjected to a magnetic field $B$. An analytical approach, based on Dirac equation, is implemented to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Youness Zahidi , Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

In two dimensions chaotic level-statistics is expected for massless Dirac fermions in the presence of disorder. For weakly disordered graphene flakes with zigzag edges the obtained level-spacing distribution in the Dirac region is neither…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-12 H. Amanatidis , I. Kleftogiannis , D. E. Katsanos , S. N. Evangelou

We study graphene which has both spin-orbit coupling (SOC), taken to be of the Kane-Mele form, and a Zeeman field induced due to proximity to a ferromagnetic material. We show that a zigzag interface of graphene having SOC with its pristine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Ranjani Seshadri , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We report on numerical study of the Dirac fermions in partially filled N=3 Landau level (LL) in graphene. At half-filling, the equal-time density-density correlation function displays sharp peaks at nonzero wavevectors $\pm {\bf q^{*}}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-31 Hao Wang , D. N. Sheng , L. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane

Unipolar transport is demonstrated in a bilayer graphene with a series of p-n junctions and is controlled by electrostatic biasing by a comb-shaped top gate. The OFF state is induced by multiple barriers in the p-n junctions, where the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Hisao Miyazaki , Song-Lin Li , Shu Nakaharai , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

In a Dirac semimetal, the conduction and valence bands contact only at discrete (Dirac) points in the Brillouin zone (BZ) and disperse linearly in all directions around these critical points. Including spin, the low energy effective theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 S. M. Young , S. Zaheer , J. C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , A. M. Rappe

The electronic properties of a bricklayer model, which shares the same topology as the hexagonal lattice of graphene, are investigated numerically. We study the influence of random magnetic-field disorder in addition to a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 L. Schweitzer , P. Markos

We show that an electrostatically created n-p junction separating the electron and hole gas regions in a graphene monolayer transmits only those quasiparticles that approach it almost perpendicularly to the n-p interface. Such a selective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Cheianov , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We review the energy spectrum and transport properties of several types of one- dimensional superlattices (SLs) on single-layer and bilayer graphene. In single-layer graphene, for certain SL parameters an electron beam incident on a SL is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

The proposed semiclassical theory predicts two types of oscillations in the flow of current injected from a point source near a ballistic p-n junction in graphene in a strong magnetic field. One originates from the classical effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Aavishkar A. Patel , Nathan Davies , Vadim Cheianov , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

Monolayer graphene in a strong magnetic field exhibits quantum Hall states at filling fractions $\nu = 0$ and $\nu = \pm 1$ that are not explained within a picture of noninteracting electrons. We propose that these states arise from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Bitan Roy , Malcolm P. Kennett , S. Das Sarma

We study the origin of interface states in carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions between achiral tubes. By applying the Born-von Karman boundary condition to an interface between armchair- and zigzag-terminated graphene layers, we are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-01 H. Santos , A. Ayuela , W. Jaskólski , M. Pelc , L. Chico

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov