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Conductance fluctuation is usually unavoidable in graphene nanoribbons (GNR) due to the presence of disorder along its edges. By measuring the low-frequency noise in GNR devices, we find that the conductance fluctuation is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Guangyu Xu , Carlos M. Torres , Emil B. Song , Jianshi Tang , Jingwei Bai , Xiangfeng Duan , Yuegang Zhang , Kang L. Wang

We report a strain-controlled tuning of magnetism in transition-metal-atom-decorated graphene. Our first-principles calculations demonstrate that strain can lead to a sudden change in the magnetic configuration of a transition metal (TM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-09 Bing Huang , Jaejun Yu , Su-Huai Wei

Recent reports of spin-orbit coupling enhancement in chemically modified graphene have opened doors to studies of the spin Hall effect with massless chiral fermions. Here, we theoretically investigate the interaction and impurity density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Mirco Milletari , Aires Ferreira

We investigate an effective model of proximity modified graphene (or symmetrylike materials) with broken time-reversal symmetry. We predict the appearance of quantum anomalous Hall phases by computing bulk band gap and Chern numbers for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Klaus Zollner , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We propose encapsulating type-A antiferromagnetic semiconductors between graphene layers to realize a gate-tunable synthetic antiferromagnet with nonrelativistic spin splitting, enabling efficient spintronic transport via graphene. Ab…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Marko Milivojević , Martin Gmitra

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

Superconductivity in many strongly correlated materials appears in proximity to a density-wave or nematic order and is believed to be mediated by quantum-critical (QC) fluctuations of the corresponding order parameter. We argue that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-04 Avraham Klein , Yi-Ming Wu , Andrey Chubukov

Long-distance spin transport through anti-ferromagnetic insulators (AFMIs) is a long-standing goal of spintronics research. Unlike conventional spintronics systems, monolayer graphene in quantum Hall regime (QH) offers an unprecedented…

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

Spin dependent electron transport measurements on graphene are of high importance to explore possible spintronic applications. Up to date all spin transport experiments on graphene were done in a semi-classical regime, disregarding quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 M. H. D. Guimaraes , P. J. Zomer , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

Short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions sustain superconducting current with a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation up to a critical current threshold. The current-phase relation, arising from proximitized superconductivity, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk

The occurrence of high-T_c superconductivity in systems including the cuprates and the iron-based superconductors, is known to coincide with the existence of anomalous normal-state properties which have been associated with quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-31 Josef Ashkenazi , Neil F. Johnson

Graphene provides a canonical setting for Floquet band engineering, where circularly polarized light can dynamically open topological gaps at Dirac points and generate nonequilibrium Hall responses. Here we show that uniaxial strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yu-Wen Xu , Xiaolin Wan , Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

An odd number of zigzag edges in armchair graphene nanoribbons and their mechanical properties (e.g., Young's modulus, Poisson ratio and shear modulus) have potential interest for bandgap engineering in graphene based optoelectronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik

We study the effect of anisotropy (strain) on dynamical gap generation in graphene. We work with a low energy effective theory obtained from a tight-binding Hamiltonian expanded around the Dirac points in momentum space. We use a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 M. E. Carrington , A. R. Frey , B. A. Meggison

We present a rigorous microscopic theory of the extrinsic spin Hall effect in disordered graphene based on a nonperturbative quantum diagrammatic treatment incorporating skew scattering and anomalous---impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Mirco Milletari , Aires Ferreira

Neutron scattering measurements are used to elucidate interplay of the field-induced spin gap and the quantum fluctuations in archetypal heavy electron system CeCu$_{2}$Ge$_{2}$. A spin gap of $\Delta$ = 0.56 meV is found to develop near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 D. K. Singh

Electrostatic gating lies in the heart of modern FET-based integrated circuits. Usually, the gate electrode has to be placed very close to the conduction channel, typically a few nanometers, in order to achieve efficient tunability.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Aolin Deng , Cheng Hu , Peiyue Shen , Xingdong Luo , Jiajun Chen , Bosai Lyu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Qi Liang , Jie Ma , Zhiwen Shi

We show theoretically that graphene, which exhibits a massless Dirac like spectrum for its electrons, can exhibit unconventional Kondo effect that can be tuned by an experimentally controllable applied gate voltage. We demonstrate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Sengupta , G. Baskaran