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One- and two-layer graphene have recently been shown to feature new physical phenomena such as unconventional quantum Hall effects and prospects of supporting a non-silicon technological platform using epitaxial graphene. While both one-…

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We investigate the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a three-edge star graph, where each edge contains a linear localized inhomogeneity in the form of a Dirac delta linear potential. Such systems are of significant interest in studying…

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We explore the gapped graphene structure in the two-dimensional plane in the presence of the Rosen-Morse potential and an external uniform magnetic field. In order to describe the corresponding structure, we consider the propagation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 A. Kalani , Alireza Amani , M. A. Ramzanpour

We formulate and solve the perhaps simplest two-body bound state problem for interacting Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions. A two-body bound state is predicted for gapped graphene monolayers in the presence of weakly repulsive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. De Martino , R. Egger

We study the competition of spin- and charge-density waves and their quantum multicritical behavior for the semimetal-insulator transitions of low-dimensional Dirac fermions. Employing the effective Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory with two order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Laura Classen , Igor F. Herbut , Lukas Janssen , Michael M. Scherer

The study of vacancies in graphene is a topic of growing interest. A single vacancy induces a localized stable charge of order unity interacting with other charges of the conductor through an unscreened Coulomb potential. It also breaks the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Omrie Ovdat , Yaroslav Don , Eric Akkermans

Due to effect of Klein tunneling two-dimensional graphene quantum dots do not possess genuine bound states but quasi-bound (resonant tunneling) states only. We discuss in detail the attempt to describe these states within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 H. V. Grushevskaya , G. G. Krylov

We study the properties of graphene wormholes in which a short nanotube acts as a bridge between two graphene sheets, where the honeycomb carbon lattice is curved from the presence of 12 heptagonal defects. By taking the nanotube bridge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 J. Gonzalez , J. Herrero

In this paper, we prove the existence of a bound state in a waveguide that consists of two semi-infinite periodic structures separated by an interface. The two periodic structures are perturbed from the same periodic medium with a Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Jiayu Qiu , Junshan Lin , Peng Xie , Hai Zhang

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductors are exotic phases of matter with fascinating properties, which are, however, encountered rather sparsely. Here we identify the possibility of realizing such a superconducting ground state that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

We analyze the nature of the single particle states, away from the Dirac point, in the presence of long-range charge impurities in a tight-binding model for electrons on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice which is of direct relevance for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Sabyasachi Nag , Arti Garg , T. V. Ramakrishnan

In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

We study a non-Hermitian variant of the (2+1)-dimensional Dirac wave equation, which hosts a real energy spectrum with pairwise-orthogonal eigenstates. In the spatially uniform case, the Hamiltonian's non-Hermitian symmetries allow its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Yun Yong Terh , Rimi Banerjee , Haoran Xue , Y. D. Chong

We analyze the problem of electronic transmission through different regions of a graphene sheet that are characterized by different types of connections between the Dirac points. These valley symmetry breaking Hamiltonians might arise from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 Pedro L. S. Lopes , A. H. Castro Neto , A. O. Caldeira

In neutral graphene dots the Fermi level coincides with the Dirac points. We have investigated in the presence of a magnetic field several unusual properties of single electron states near the Fermi level of such a rectangular-shaped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 S. C. Kim , P. S. Park , S. -R. Eric Yang

The perfect transmission of charge carriers through potential barriers in graphene (Klein tunneling) is a direct consequence of the Dirac equation that governs the low-energy carrier dynamics. As a result, localized states do not exist in…

We study the charge density distribution, the electric field profile, and the resistance of an electrostatically created lateral p-n junction in graphene. We show that the electric field at the interface of the electron and hole regions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-22 L. M. Zhang , M. M. Fogler

The focusing of electron flow in a symmetric p-n junction (PNJ) of graphene ribbon with different chiralities is studied. Considering the PNJ with the sharp interface, in a armchair ribbon, the electron flow emitting from $(-L,0)$ in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yanxia Xing , Jian Wang , Qing-feng Sun

We show that the flat bands in the chiral model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene remain exactly flat in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. This is shown by an exact mapping between the model and the lowest Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Yarden Sheffer , Ady Stern

We investigate the transport characteristics of monolayer graphene p-n junctions by means of the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. It is shown that thanks to the high interband tunneling of chiral fermions and to a finite bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , A. Bournel , P. Dollfus