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Graphene has emerged as a paradigmatic material in condensed matter physics due to its exceptional electronic, mechanical, and thermal properties. A deep understanding of its thermoelectric transport behavior is crucial for the development…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , A. Martín-Ruiz

The remarkable electrical, optical and mechanical properties of graphene make it a desirable material for electronics, optoelectronics and quantum applications. A fundamental understanding of the electrical conductivity of graphene across a…

In the 2016 experiment by Crossno et al. [Science 351, 1058 (2016)], electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity of graphene was found to violate the well-known Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law for metals. At liquid nitrogen temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-24 Adam Rycerz

Using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, the real part of optical conductivity [$\sigma_{1}(\omega)$] of twisted bilayer graphene was obtained at different temperatures (10 -- 300 K) in the frequency range 0.3 -- 3 THz. On top of a…

In this work, we resolved some controversial issues on the Bloch-Gr\"{u}neisen (BG) temperature in doped graphene via analytical and numerical calculations based on full inelastic electron-acoustic-phonon (EAP) scattering rate and various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Khoe Van Nguyen , Yia-Chung Chang

Frequency dependent conductivity of Coulomb interacting massless Dirac fermions coupled to random scalar and random vector potentials is found as a function of frequency in the regime controlled by a line of fixed points. Such model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-10-22 Oskar Vafek

We study conductance fluctuations (CF) and the sensitivity of the conductance to the motion of a single scatterer in two-dimensional massless Dirac systems. Our extensive numerical study finds limits to the predicted universal value of CF.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Mario F. Borunda , Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

We investigated the transient photoconductivity of graphene at various gate-tuned carrier densities by optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy. We demonstrated that graphene exhibits semiconducting positive photoconductivity near zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , Y. C. Shin , J. Kong , N. Gedik

Graphene, as a semimetal with the largest known thermal conductivity, is an ideal system to study the interplay between electronic and lattice contributions to thermal transport. While the total electrical and thermal conductivity have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-12 Tae Yun Kim , Cheol-Hwan Park , Nicola Marzari

We revisited the influence of electron-electron scattering on the resistivity of a two-dimensional system with linear spectrum. In conventional systems with parabolic spectrum, where Umklapp scattering is either prohibited or ineffective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 V. M. Kovalev , M. V. Entin , Z. D. Kvon , A. D. Levin , V. A. Chitta , G. M. Gusev , N. N. Mikhailov

The reflectance of graphene is investigated in the framework of the Dirac model with account of its realistic properties, such as nonzero chemical potential and band gap, at any temperature. For this purpose, the exact reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

The phase space for graphene's minimum conductivity $\sigma_\mathrm{min}$ is mapped out using Landauer theory modified for scattering using Fermi's Golden Rule, as well as the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulation with a Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Redwan N. Sajjad , Frank Tseng , K. M. Masum Habib , Avik W. Ghosh

We calculate the optical (cutoff >> frequency >> temperature) conductivity in clean graphene in the ultimate low-energy regime, when retardation effects of the electromagnetic interaction become important and when the full Lorentz symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-12 Igor F. Herbut , Vieri Mastropietro

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

Graphene is a 2-dimensional material with high carrier mobility and thermal conductivity, suitable for high-speed electronics. Conduction and valence bands touch at the Dirac point. The absorptivity of single-layer graphene is 2.3%, nearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Marcus Freitag , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Mathias Steiner , Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

The theoretical description for the reflectivity properties of dielectric, metal and semiconductor plates coated with graphene is developed in the framework of the Dirac model. Graphene is described by the polarization tensor allowing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-07 G. L. Klimchitskaya , C. C. Korikov , V. M. Petrov

We have calculated the dynamical optical conductivity for $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ materials in the presence of a finite bandgap in their energy bandstructure. This is a special type of energy dispersions because for all…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-31 Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We investigate the thermal conductivity of suspended graphene as a function of the density of defects, ND, introduced in a controllable way. Graphene layers are synthesized using chemical vapor deposition, transferred onto a transmission…

We analyze the concept of causality for the conductivity of graphene described by the Dirac model. It is recalled that the condition of causality leads to the analyticity of conductivity in the upper half-plane of complex frequencies and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

The structural, dynamical, and thermodynamical properties of diamond, graphite and layered derivatives (graphene, rhombohedral graphite) are computed using a combination of density-functional theory (DFT) total-energy calculations and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas Mounet , Nicola Marzari