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The present paper generalizes preceding papers of the author and opens a cycle of works concerning the general posing and solution in analytic form of the quantum-mechanical inverse scattering problem (for a given partial channel) in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Muzafarov

Graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) material with unique electronic properties, appears to be an ideal object for the application of surface-science methods. Among them, a family of scanning probe microscopy methods (STM, AFM, KPFM) and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-30 Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina , Mikhail Fonin

A near-field scanning optical microscope is used to locally induce photocurrent in a graphene transistor with high spatial resolution. By analyzing the spatially resolved photo-response, we find that in the n-type conduction regime a p-n-p…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Mueller , F. Xia , M. Freitag , J. Tsang , Ph. Avouris

The quantum Hall effect is a remarkable manifestation of quantized transport in a two-dimensional electron gas. Given its technological relevance, it is important to understand its development in realistic nanoscale devices. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 I. J. Vera-Marun , P. J. Zomer , A. Veligura , M. H. D. Guimarães , L. Visser , N. Tombros , H. J. van Elferen , U. Zeitler , B. J. van Wees

We describe charging a quantum dot induced electrostatically within a semiconducting graphene nanoribbon by electrons or holes. The applied model is based on a tight-binding approach with the electron-electron interaction introduced by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 D. P. Żebrowski , B. Szafran

Quantum Hall edge states offer avenues for quasiparticle interferometry, provided that the ratio between phase coherence length and quantum Hall interferometer (QHI) size is large enough. Maximizing this ratio by shrinking the QHI area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 N. Moreau , B. Brun , S. Somanchi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer , B. Hackens

Complete theoretical understanding of the most complex superconductors requires a detailed knowledge of the symmetry of the superconducting energy-gap $\Delta_\mathbf{k}^\alpha$, for all momenta $\mathbf{k}$ on the Fermi surface of every…

The hybridization of $\sigma$ and $\pi$ orbitals of carbon atoms in graphene depends on the surface curvature. Considering a single junction between flat and rippled graphene subsystems, it is found an accumulation of charge in the rippled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 M. Pudlak , R. G. Nazmitdinov

The achievement of valley-polarized electron currents is a cornerstone for the realization of valleytronic devices. Here, we report on ballistic coherent transport experiments where two opposite quantum point contacts (QPCs) are defined by…

We have developed a device fabrication process to pattern graphene into nanostructures of arbitrary shape and control their electronic properties using local electrostatic gates. Electronic transport measurements have been used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Barbaros Özyilmaz , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Dmitri Efetov , Dmitri A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov , Philip Kim

A universal set of third--nearest neighbour tight--binding (TB) parameters is presented for calculation of the quasiparticle (QP) dispersion of $N$ stacked $sp^2$ graphene layers ($N=1... \infty$) with $AB$ stacking sequence. The QP bands…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Grüneis , C. Attaccalite , L. Wirtz , H. Shiozawa R. Saito , T. Pichler , A. Rubio

The ability of graphene to support long-lived, electrically tunable plasmons that interact strongly with light, combined with its highly nonlinear optical response, has generated great expectations for application of the atomically-thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Joel D. Cox , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo

We simulate scanning probe imaging of the local density of states related to scattering Fermi level wave functions inside a resonant cavity. We calculate potential landscape within the cavity taking into account the Coulomb charge of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 K. Kolasinski , B. Szafran

Graphene membrane irradiated by weak activating periodic electric field in terahertz range is considered. The corrected formula for the graphene quantum conductivity is found. The obtained formula gives complex conjugate results when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 N. E. Firsova

From the scattering of semicoherent-state wavepackets at high magnetic field, we derive analytically the transmission coefficient of electrons in graphene in the quantum Hall regime through a smooth constriction described by a quadratic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-13 Martina Flöser , Thierry Champel , Serge Florens

In view of the many quantum field theoretical descriptions of graphene in $2+1$ dimensions, we present another field theoretical feature of graphene, in the presence of defects. Particularly, we shall be interested in gapped graphene in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 V. K. Oikonomou

Quantum computing provides a novel avenue towards simulating dynamical phenomena, and, in particular, scattering processes relevant for exploring the structure of matter. However, preparing and evolving particle wave packets on a quantum…

The honeycomb lattice of graphene is a unique two-dimensional (2D) system where the quantum mechanics of electrons is equivalent to that of relativistic Dirac fermions. Novel nanometer-scale behavior in this material, including electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Feng Wang , Caglar Girit , Yossi Yayon , Melissa Panlasigui , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

In recent years, applications of quantum simulation have been developed to study properties of strongly interacting theories. This has been driven by two factors: on the one hand, needs from theorists to have access to physical observables…

We demonstrate experimentally that graphene quantum capacitance $C_{\mathrm{q}}$ can have a strong impact on transport spectroscopy through the interplay with nearby charge reservoirs. The effect is elucidated in a field-effect-gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 K. Takase , S. Tanabe , S. Sasaki , H. Hibino , K. Muraki