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We apply the recently-developed partition-free time-dependent Landauer-B\"uttiker (TD-LB) formalism to the study of periodically-driven transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNR). When an AC driving is applied, this formalism can be used to…

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Nanoscale electronic transport gives rise to a number of intriguing physical phenomena that are accompanied by distinct spatial patterns of current flow. Here, we report on sensitive magnetic imaging of two-dimensional current distributions…

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In recent work by Schnez et al. [PRB 78, 195427 (2008)], they studied the analytical model of the energy spectrum of a graphene quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. In this comment we first point out that the results Eqs.(5), (6)…

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Transport measurements are one of the most widely used methods of characterizing small systems in chemistry and physics. When interactions are negligible, the current through quantum dots, nanowires, molecular junctions, and other submicron…

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Graphene quantum dots provide promising platforms for hosting spin, valley, or spin-valley qubits. Taking advantage of the electrically generated band gap and the ambipolar nature, high-quality quantum dots can be defined in bilayer…

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We study the effect of local modulation of charge density and carrier type in graphene field effect transistors using a double top gate geometry. The two top gates lead to the formation of multiple \emph{p-n} junctions. Electron transport…

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We study quasi-particle transmission through an $n $-$p$ junction in a graphene irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum of undoped graphene is gapless, and one may expect the perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

The transport properties of electrons in graphene $p$-$n$ junction with uniform Kekul\'e lattice distortion have been studied using the tight-binding model and the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism combined with the nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Peipei Zhang , Chao Wang , Yu-Xian Li , Lixue Zhai , Juntao Song

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Aron W. Cummings , Alessandro Cresti , Stephan Roche

We theoretically investigate the three-dimensional (3D) electron dynamics of graphene in real space under strong laser fields using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). We successfully reproduce the reversal of current…

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The p-n junctions dynamics in graphene channel induced by stripe domains nucleation, motion and reversal in a ferroelectric substrate is explored using self-consistent approach based on Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenology combined with…

We present a theory presenting new quantum oscillations in the magnetoresistance that are revealed as fine structures superimposed to the Schubnikov-de-Haas oscillations. They may be observed in experiments on graphene layers as fine…

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Motivated by recent experimental results for zero-line modes (ZLMs) in a bilayer graphene system [Nature Nanotechnol. 11, 1060 (2016)], we systematically studied the influence of a magnetic field on ZLMs and demonstrated the physical origin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Ke Wang , Tao Hou , Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts narrow moir\'e bands with meV-scale energy splittings, making its correlated phases sensitive to both material parameters and modeling choices in low-energy downfolding. We develop an ab…

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The interaction between graphene and copper (111) surface have been investigated using the molecular dynamics simulations. We have shown that it is possible to fit Lennard-Jones potential leading to the correct values of the binding energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 A. V. Sidorenkov , S. V. Kolesnikov , A. M. Saletsky

We study the magnetic properties of graphene edges and graphene/graphane interfaces under the influence of electrostatic gates. For this, an effective low-energy theory for the edge states, which is derived from the Hubbard model of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Manuel J. Schmidt , Daniel Loss

In this article, we analyse the Bistritzer--MacDonald (BM) model (also known as the continuum model) of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with an additional external magnetic field. We provide an explicit semiclassical asymptotic expansion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Simon Becker , Jihoi Kim , Xiaowen Zhu

We investigate magnetic deflection of currents that flow across the Aharonov-Bohm interferom- eters defined in graphene. We consider devices induced by closed n-p junctions in nanoribbons as well as etched quantum rings. The deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Bartlomiej Szafran

We describe a peculiar fine structure acquired by the in-plane optical phonon at the Gamma-point in graphene when it is brought into resonance with one of the inter-Landau-level transitions in this material. The effect is most pronounced…

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