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We present extensive numerical results for the thermodynamic density of states (i.e. quantum capacitance) of a two-dimensional massless Dirac fermion fluid in a doped graphene sheet. In particular, by employing the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-23 Reza Asgari , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

We study the dynamics of the electrons in a non-uniform magnetic field applied perpendicular to a graphene sheet in the low energy limit when the excitation states can be described by a Dirac type Hamiltonian. We show that as compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 P. Rakyta , L. Oroszlany , A. Kormanyos , C. J. Lambert , J. Cserti

We numerically study the interplay between superconductivity and disorder on the graphene honeycomb lattice with on-site Hubbard attractive interactions U using a spatially inhomogeneous self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) approach.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-30 Ionut-Dragos Potirniche , Joseph Maciejko , Rahul Nandkishore , S. L. Sondhi

Electronic structure of graphene monolayer-bilayer junction in a magnetic field is studied within an effective-mass approximation. The energy spectrum is characterized by interface Landau levels, i.e., the locally flat bands appearing near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mikito Koshino , Takeshi Nakanishi , Tsuneya Ando

A two-dimensional periodic array of scatterers has been introduced to a single layer of graphene in the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene layer. The eigenvalue equation for such a system has been solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

This work reports the three-band structure associated with a Lieb lattice with arbitrary nearest and next-nearest neighbors hopping interactions. For specific configurations, the system admits a flat band located between two dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Kevin Zelaya , Vit Jakubský

We find that a repulsive potential of graphene in the presence of a magnetic field has bound states that are peaked inside the barrier with tails extending over \ell(N + 1), where \ell and N are the magnetic length and Landau level(LL)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 P. S. Park , S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang

Strain fields in graphene giving rise to pseudomagnetic fields have received much attention due to the possibility of mimicking real magnetic fields with magnitudes of greater than 100 Tesla. We examine systems with such strains confined to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Driven tunneling between graphene Landau levels is theoretically linked to the process of pair creation from vacuum, a prediction of quantum electrodynamics (QED). Landau levels are created by the presence of a strong, constant, quantizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Denis Gagnon , François Fillion-Gourdeau , Joey Dumont , Catherine Lefebvre , Steve MacLean

A spatially modulated Dirac gap in a graphene sheet leads to charge confinement, thus enabling a graphene quantum dot to be formed without the application of external electric and magnetic fields [Appl. Phys. Lett. \textbf{97}, 243106…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Giavaras , Franco Nori

In neutral graphene dots the Fermi level coincides with the Dirac points. We have investigated in the presence of a magnetic field several unusual properties of single electron states near the Fermi level of such a rectangular-shaped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 S. C. Kim , P. S. Park , S. -R. Eric Yang

We study localization properties of two-dimensional Dirac fermions subject to a power-law-correlated random vector potential describing, e.g., the effect of "ripples" in graphene. By using a variety of techniques (low-order perturbation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. V. Khveshchenko

We study the interplay between proximity-induced superconductivity and ferromagnetism in graphene by self-consistently solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations on the honeycomb lattice. We find that a strong triplet proximity effect is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Asle Sudbø

We investigate the electronic eigenstates of graphene quantum dots of realistic size (i.e., up to 80 nm diameter) in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B. Numerical tight-binding calculations and Coulomb-blockade measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-09 F. Libisch , S. Rotter , J. Güttinger , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer

In two-dimensional Dirac semimetals, massless Dirac fermions can form a series of Efimov-like quasibound states in an attractive Coulomb potential. In an applied magnetic field, these quasibound states can become bound states around the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Mingyuan Sun

The massless Dirac fermions and the ease to introduce spatial and magnetic confinement in graphene provide us unprecedented opportunity to explore confined relativistic matter in this condensed-matter system. Here we report the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ya-Ning Ren , Qiang Cheng , Chao Yan , Ke Lv , Mo-Han Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

We construct the coherent states for charge carriers in a graphene layer immersed in crossed external electric and magnetic fields. For that purpose, we solve the Dirac-Weyl equation in a Landau-like gauge avoiding applying techniques of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Erik Díaz-Bautista , Maurice Oliva-Leyva

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of a ferromagnetic/strained/normal graphene junctions with central region subjected to a magnetic field $B$. An analytical approach, based on Dirac equation, is implemented to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Youness Zahidi , Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Roles of paramagnetic and diamagnetic pair-breaking effects in superconductivity in electric-field-induced surface metallic state are studied by Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation, when magnetic fields are applied parallel to the surface. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 Masahiro Nabeta , Kenta K. Tanaka , Seiichiro Onari , Masanori Ichioka

Adsorbates can drastically alter physical properties of graphene. Particularly important are adatoms and admolecules that induce resonances at the Dirac point. Such resonances limit electron mobilities and spin relaxation times. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Jeongsu Lee , Denis Kochan , Jaroslav Fabian