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We consider graphene superlattice miniband fermions probed by electronic interferometry in magneto-transport experiments. By decoding the observed Fabry-P\'erot interference patterns together with our corresponding quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Kraft , M. -H. Liu , P. B. Selvasundaram , S. -C. Chen , R. Krupke , K. Richter , R. Danneau

We investigate the phase diagram of moir\'e double bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides with ABBA stacking as a function of twist angle and applied pressure. At hole filling $\nu = 2$ per moir\'e unit cell, the noninteracting system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

Knowing the band structure of materials is one of the prerequisites to understand their properties. Therefore, especially in the last decades, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has become a highly demanded experimental tool…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-17 A. M. Shuvaev , V. Dziom , N. N. Mikhailov , Z. D. Kvon , Y. Shao , D. N. Basov , A. Pimenov

The unusual transport properties of graphene are the direct consequence of a peculiar bandstructure near the Dirac point. We determine the shape of the pi bands and their characteristic splitting, and the transition from a pure 2D to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Taisuke Ohta , Aaron Bostwick , J. L. McChesney , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Eli Rotenberg

We study theoretically two-dimensional single-crystalline sheets of semiconductors that form a honeycomb lattice with a period below 10 nm. These systems could combine the usual semiconductor properties with Dirac bands. Using atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-19 E. Kalesaki , C. Delerue , C. Morais Smith , W. Beugeling , G. Allan , D. Vanmaekelbergh

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal is a new kind of material that has a linear energy dispersion in 3D momentum space and can be viewed as an analog of graphene. Extensive efforts have been devoted to the understanding of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Enze Zhang , Yanwen Liu , Weiyi Wang , Cheng Zhang , Peng Zhou , Zhi-Gang Chen , Jin Zou , Faxian Xiu

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Magnetoresistance in many samples of Dirac semimetal and topological insulator displays non-monotonic behaviors over a wide range of magnetic field. Here a formula of magnetoconductivity is presented for massless and massive Dirac fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Bo Fu , Huan-Wen Wang , Shun-Qing Shen

Effect of spin-orbit scattering on quantum diffusive transport of two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions is studied by the diagrammatic technique. The quantum diffusion of massive Dirac fermions can be viewed as a singlet Cooperon in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Wen-Yu Shan , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We investigate the quantum transport properties of multichannel nanoribbons made of materials described by the Dirac equation, under an in-plane magnetic field. In the low energy regime, positive and negative finger-gate potentials allow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Chi-Shung Tang , Shun-Jen Cheng

We study the effects of an external magnetic field on the superconducting properties of a quasi-two-dimensional system of Dirac electrons at an arbitrary temperature. An explicit expression for the superconducting gap is obtained as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-26 E. C. Marino , Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes

A key problem in the field of quantum criticality is to understand the nature of quantum phase transitions in systems of interacting itinerant fermions, motivated by experiments on a variety of strongly correlated materials. Much attention…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Rufus Boyack , Hennadii Yerzhakov , Joseph Maciejko

Altermagnets provide a natural platform for studying and exploiting piezomagnetism. In this paper, we introduce a class of insulating altermagnets in two dimensions (2D) referred to as Dirac quadrupole altermagnets, and show based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 H. Radhakrishnan , B. Bell , C. Ortix , J. W. F. Venderbos

We evaluate the phase-coherent transport of electrons along linear structures of varying length, which are made from two types of potential wells set in either a periodic or a Fibonacci quasi-periodic sequence. The array is described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. R. Bakhtiari , P. Vignolo , M. P. Tosi

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions in a graphene-based double-barrier structure composed of two tilted-cone regions separated by a central pristine graphene region. Using the transfer matrix method, we systematically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 M. Raggui , O. Habti , A. Kamal , E. B. Choubabi

Two-dimensional semimetals with tilted Dirac cones in the electronic band structure are shown to exhibit spatial separation of carriers belonging to different valleys under illumination. In stark contrast to gapped Dirac materials this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 A. Wild , E. Mariani , M. E. Portnoi

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

It is highly desirable to modify and improve the Dirac electron system of graphene for novel electronic properties and promising applications. For this purpose, we study 2D heterostructures consisting of graphene and monolayer TMDs by means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Bo-Wen Yu , Bang-Gui Liu

Bismuth and its alloys provide a paradigm to realize three dimensional materials whose low-energy effective theory is given by Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions. We study the quantum transport properties of three dimensional Dirac materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-08 M. Salehi , S. A. Jafari

While electron-electron (e-e) interactions are known to influence resistivity in non-Galilean invariant two-dimensional (2D) systems, their effect on magnetotransport is not fully understood. Conventional models for simple bands often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 G. M. Gusev , A. D. Levin , V. A. Chitta , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov