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The magnetic field dependence of energy levels in gapped single- and bilayer graphene quantum dots (QDs) defined by electrostatic gates is studied analytically in terms of the Dirac equation. Due to the absence of sharp edges in these types…

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The remarkable electronic properties of graphene have fueled the vision of a graphene-based platform for lighter, faster and smarter electronics and computing applications. One of the challenges is to devise ways to tailor its electronic…

Electron-electron interactions play a critical role in many condensed matter phenomena, and it is tempting to find a way to control them by changing the interactions' strength. One possible approach is to place a studied system in proximity…

At high magnetic fields the conductance of graphene is governed by the half-integer quantum Hall effect. By local electrostatic gating a \textit{p-n} junction perpendicular to the graphene edges can be formed, along which quantum Hall…

Observations of electron-hole asymmetry in transport through graphene devices at high magnetic field challenge prevalent models of the graphene quantum Hall effect. Here, we study this asymmetry both in conventional magnetotransport and in…

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Mechanism of transient population inversion in graphene with multi-splitted (interdigitated) top-gate and grounded back gate is suggested and examined for the mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral region. Efficient stimulated emission after fast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Satou , F. T. Vasko , T. Otsuji , V. V. Mitin

Bilayer graphene with an interlayer potential difference has an energy gap and, when the potential difference varies spatially, topologically protected one-dimensional states localized along the difference's zero-lines. When disorder is…

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We use numerical simulations to predict peculiar magnetotransport fingerprints in polycrystalline graphene, driven by the presence of grain boundaries of varying size and orientation. The formation of Landau levels is shown to be restricted…

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The conductance through a quantum point contact created by a sharp and hard metal tip on the graphite surface has features which to our knowledge have not been encountered so far in metal contacts or in nanowires. In this paper we first…

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The quantum anomalous Hall effect can occur in single and few layer graphene systems that have both exchange fields and spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we present a study of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in single-layer and gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wang-Kong Tse , Zhenhua Qiao , Yugui Yao , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

In this report we experimentally probe the non-equilibrium breakdown of the quantum Hall state in monolayer graphene by injecting a high current density ($\sim$1A/m). The measured critical currents for dissipationless transport in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Vibhor Singh , Mandar M. Deshmukh

The quantum Hall effect is studied in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe$_2$. By employing top- and back-gate electric fields at high magnetic field, the Landau levels of the Dirac cones in the top and bottom topological surface states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Chuan Li , Bob de Ronde , Artem Nikitin , Yingkai Huang , Mark S. Golden , Anne de Visser , Alexander Brinkman

Motivated by recent non-local transport studies of quantum-Hall-magnet (QHM) states formed in monolayer graphene's $N=0$ Landau level, we study the scattering of QHM magnons by gate-controlled junctions between states with different integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Nemin Wei , Chunli Huang , Allan H. MacDonald

We demonstrate a quantum Hall edge-channel interferometer in a high-quality graphene pn junction under a high magnetic field. The co-propagating p and n quantum Hall edge channels traveling along the pn interface functions as a built-in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sei Morikawa , Satoru Masubuchi , Rai Moriya , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tomoki Machida

We study the effect of backward scatterings in the tunneling at a point contact between the edges of a second level hierarchical fractional quantum Hall states. A universal scaling dimension of the tunneling conductance is obtained only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Imura , N. Nagaosa

We present measurements of quantized conductance in electrostatically induced quantum point contacts in bilayer graphene. The application of a perpendicular magnetic field leads to an intricate pattern of lifted and restored degeneracies…

We present a theory of the graphene nanoslide, a fundamental device for graphene straintronics that realizes a single pseudogauge barrier. We solve the scattering problem in closed form and demonstrate that the nanoslide gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Christophe De Beule , Ming-Hao Liu , Bart Partoens , Lucian Covaci

We study the effect of a local potential shift induced by a side electrode on the edge modes at the boundary between gapped and ungapped bilayer graphene. A potential shift close to the gapped-ungapped boundary causes the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Hira Ali , Llorenç Serra

The transport properties of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) at quantizing magnetic fields are investigated. Devices patterned perpendicularly to SiC terraces clearly exhibit bilayer inclusions distributed along the substrate step edges. We…

Topology is a powerful recent concept asserting that quantum states could be globally protected against local perturbations. Dissipationless topologically protected states are thus of major fundamental interest as well as of practical…