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In this paper we calculate the non-perturbative Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian for massless QED in a strong magnetic field $H$, where the breaking of the chiral symmetry is dynamically catalyzed by the external magnetic field via the formation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Efrain J. Ferrer , Vivian de la Incera , Angel Sanchez

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

The magneto-conductivity of a single graphene layer where the electrons are described by the Dirac Hamiltonian weakly modulated by a periodic potential is calculated. It is shown that Weiss oscillations periodic in the inverse magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We study the discrete energy spectrum of curved graphene sheets in the presence of a magnetic field. The shifting of the Landau levels is determined for complex and realistic geometries of curved graphene sheets. The energy levels follow a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kyriakos Flouris , Miller Mendoza , Hans J. Herrmann

The application of the chiral decomposition procedure to hybrid graphene h-BN systems revealed rules for the partition of the system into effective subsystems being bilayers plus monolayer in case the number of layers is odd. Three types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 A. Molenda , P. Maślanka , I. Zasada

Quantum channel discrimination is used to test quantum field theory in non-inertial frames. We search for optimal strategies which can best see the thermality of the Unruh effect. We find that the usual strategy of counting particles in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Jason Doukas , Gerardo Adesso , Stefano Pirandola , Andrzej Dragan

Quantum radiated energy flux emitted by an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector, with the internal harmonic oscillator coupled to a massless scalar field, in linear oscillatory motion in (3+1) dimensional Minkowski space is studied by numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Shih-Yuin Lin

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits fascinating correlation-driven phenomena like the superconductivity and Mott insulating state, with flat bands and a chiral lattice structure. We find by quantum transport calculations that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yizhou Liu , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

The long standing controversy concerning the effect of electron - electron interaction on the electrical conductivity of an ideal graphene sheet is settled. Performing the calculation directly in the tight binding approach without the usual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 B. Rosenstein , M. Lewkowicz , T. Maniv

The nonlocal field theory commonly requires a minimal length, and so it appears to formulate the nonlocal theory in terms of the doubly special relativity which makes the speed of light and the minimal length invariant simultaneously. We…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Yongwan Gim , Hwajin Um , Wontae Kim

In graphene, which is an atomic layer of crystalline carbon, two of the distinguishing properties of the material are the charge carriers two-dimensional and relativistic character. The first experimental evidence of the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Fabian Duerr , Adina Luican , Eva Y. Andrei

In this study, we determined the chiral direction of the quantum-Hall (QH) edge states in graphene by adopting simple two-terminal conductance measurements while grounding different edge positions of the sample. The edge state with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Dong-Keun Ki , Sanghyun Jo , Hu-Jong Lee

Landau level bending near the edge of graphene, described using 2d Dirac equation, provides a microscopic framework for understanding the quantum Hall Effect (QHE) in this material. We review properties of the QHE edge states in graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-13 Dmitry A. Abanin , Patrick A. Lee , Leonid S. Levitov

We consider ionized hydrogen-like atoms accelerated by an external electric field to detect Unruh radiation. By applying quantum field theory in the Rindler spacetime, we show that the first-quantized description for hydrogen-like atoms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-24 Riccardo Falcone , Claudio Conti

We examine the influence of the dispersion relation on the Unruh effect by Lorentz boosting the phase of Minkowski vacuum fluctuations endowed with an arbitrary dispersion relation. We find that, unlike what happens with a linear dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 F. Hammad , A. Landry , D. Dijamco

The Dirac equation in curved space is used to study the optical transmittance of deformed graphene along a given direction. Our theoretical analysis of the available experimental data for the light transmittance suggests that the periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-10 O. Oliveira , A. J. Chaves , W. de Paula , T. Frederico

The quantum magnetic oscillations of electrical (Shubnikov de Haas effect) and thermal conductivities are studied for graphene which represents a distinctive example of planar systems with a linear, Dirac-like spectrum of quasiparticle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov

This paper is aimed to review and promote the main applications of the methods of Quantum Field Theory to description of quantum effects in graphene. We formulate the effective electromagnetic action following from the Dirac model for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-22 Ignat V. Fialkovsky , Dmitri V. Vassilevich

The interlayer van der Waals interaction in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) induces both in-plane and out-of-plane atomic displacements showing complex patterns that depend on the twist angle. In particular, for small twist angles, within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Kunihiro Yananose , Giovanni Cantele , Procolo Lucignano , Sang-Wook Cheong , Jaejun Yu , Alessandro Stroppa

We propose to simulate a Dirac field near an event horizon using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Such a quantum simulator allows for the observation of the celebrated Unruh effect. Our proposal involves three stages: (1) preparation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-01 Javier Rodriguez-Laguna , Leticia Tarruell , Maciej Lewenstein , Alessio Celi