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In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

We study the effect of band gap on the ground-state properties of Dirac electrons in a doped graphene within the random phase approximation at zero temperature. Band gap dependence of the exchange, correlation and ground-state energies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Reza Asgari

Due to Klein tunneling, electrostatic potentials are unable to confine Dirac electrons. We show that it is possible to confine massless Dirac fermions in a monolayer graphene sheet by inhomogeneous magnetic fields. This allows one to design…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Martino , L. Dell'Anna , R. Egger

The recent detection of the singular diamagnetism of Dirac electrons in a single graphene layer paved a new way of probing 2D quantum materials through the measurement of equilibrium orbital currents which cannot be accessed in usual…

We present the electronic properties of massless Dirac fermions characterized by geometry and topology on a graphene sheet in this chapter. Topological effects can be elegantly illuminated by the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. It leads to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-01 Kee-Su Park

We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang , A. H. MacDonald

In this work, we investigate the massive Kane-Mele model for graphene in the presence of disclination and an external magnetic field, where graphene behaviors as a topological insulator. In the low-energy limit, the effective field equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 G. Q. Garcia , J. R. S. Oliveira , P. J. Porfírio , C. Furtado

Massless Dirac fermions in graphene provide unprecedented opportunities to realize the Klein paradox, which is one of the most exotic and striking properties of relativistic particles. In the seminal theoretical work [Katsnelson et al.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Bin Qiao , Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , Lin He

The electromagnetic response of bilayer graphene in a magnetic field is studied in comparison with that of monolayer graphene. Both types of graphene turn out to be qualitatively quite similar in dielectric and screening characteristics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Misumi , K. Shizuya

In this paper the mono-layer graphene at the charge neutrality point is considered whithin Thomas-Fermi-Dirac theory, treating inhomogeneous external potentials and electron-electron interactions on equal footing. We present some general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-26 M. N. Najafi , M. Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi

Realization of a free-standing graphene is always a demanding task. Here we use scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy to study the crystallographic structure and electronic properties of the uniform free-standing graphene layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-09 Elena Voloshina , Nikolai Berdunov , Yuriy Dedkov

The relativistic-like behavior of electrons in graphene significantly influences the interaction properties of these electrons in a quantizing magnetic field, resulting in more stable fractional quantum Hall effect states as compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tapash Chakraborty , Vadim Apalkov

Lattice deformations couple to the low energy electronic excitations of graphene as vector fields similar to the electromagnetic potential \cite{SA02b,VKG10}. The suggestion that certain strain configurations would be able to induce pseudo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Eduardo V. Castro , Miguel A. Cazalilla , María A. H. Vozmediano

Combining the tight-binding approximation and linear elasticity theory for a planar membrane, we investigate stretching of a graphene flake assuming that two opposite edges of the sample are clamped by the contacts. We show that, depending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

Massless Dirac particles cannot be confined by an electrostatic potential. This is a problem for making graphene quantum dots but confinement can be achieved with a magnetic field and here, general conditions for confined and deconfined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Giavaras , P. A. Maksym , M. Roy

Two-dimensional gapped semi-Dirac (GSD) materials are systems with a finite band gap that their charge carriers behave relativistically in one direction and Schr\"odinger-like in the other. In the present work, we show that besides the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Esmaeil Taghizadeh Sisakht , Farhad Fazileh , S. Javad Hashemifar , Francois M. Peeters

We consider graphene in the presence of external magnetic field and elastic deformations that cause emergent magnetic field. The total magnetic field results in the appearance of Landau levels in the spectrum of quasiparticles. In addition,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Z. V. Khaidukov , M. A. Zubkov

We describe a simple setup generating pure valley currents -- valley transport without charge transport -- in strained graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges. The crucial ingredient is a uniaxial strain pattern which couples to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Marcel Franz

We study the effect of Coulomb drag between two closely positioned graphene monolayers. In the limit of weak electron-electron interaction and small inter-layer spacing ($\mu_{1(2)}, T\ll v/d$) the drag is described by a universal function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 B. N. Narozhny , M. Titov , I. V. Gornyi , P. M. Ostrovsky

We study the density of states and localization properties of the lowest Landau levels of graphene at high magnetic fields. We focus on the effects caused by correlated long-range hopping disorder, which, in exfoliated graphene, is induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 A. L. C. Pereira , C. H. Lewenkopf , E. R. Mucciolo
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