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Graphene charge carriers behave as relativistic massless fermions, thereby exhibiting a variety of counter-intuitive behaviors. In particular, at p-n junctions, they behave as photons encountering a negative index media, therefore…

Negative refraction usually demands complex structure engineering while it is very natural for massless Dirac fermions (MDFs) across the \textit{p-n} junction, this leads to Dirac electron optics. The emergent Dirac materials may exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

The effect by which light focuses upon entering a medium with a negative refractive index, known as Veselago lensing, may enable optical imaging below the diffraction limit. Similarly, focusing electrons across a $pn$-junction could realize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Serguei Tchoumakov , Jérôme Cayssol , Adolfo G. Grushin

The relativistic charge carriers in monolayer graphene can be manipulated in manners akin to conventional optics (electron-optics): angle-dependent Klein tunneling collimates an electron beam (analogous to a laser), while a Veselago…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Xi Zhang* , Wei Ren* , Elliot Bell , Ziyan Zhu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

Ballistic heterojunctions of Dirac materials offer the opportunity of exploring optics-like phenomena in electronic systems. In this paper, a new perfect lens through special positive refraction is predicted with omnidirectional Klein…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-08 Y. Betancur-Ocampo

The transmission properties of three-dimensional (3D) massive Kane fermions in HgCdTe (MCT) heterojunctions have been studied using the simplified Kane-Mel\'e model. Based on our theoretical calculations, we propose the design of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Y Betancur-Ocampo , V Gupta

The current-voltage characteristics of a new range of devices built around Weyl semimetals has been predicted using the Landauer formalism. The potential step and barrier have been reconsidered for a three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-13 R. D. Y. Hills , A. Kusmartseva , F. V. Kusmartsev

We show that a graphene pnp junction with a central superconducting electrode acts as a Veselago lens for incoming electrons by focusing them and their phase-conjugated counterpart (holes) into different points of the optical axis. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 S. Gomez , P. Burset , W. J. Herrera , A. Levy Yeyati

Artificial lattices have been employed in many two-dimensional systems, including those of electrons, atoms and photons, in a quest for massless Dirac particles with flexibility and controllability. Periodically patterned molecule assembly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-25 Zhenglu Li , Ting Cao , Meng Wu , Steven G. Louie

Asymmetric Veselago lenses (AVLs) can be created from ballistic $p$-$n$ and $n$-$p$-$n$ homojunctions of uniaxially strained graphene. This atypical converging electron flow emerges by applying uniaxial tension out of the device's symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Y. Betancur-Ocampo

In the presence of an external magnetic field, the optical response of two-dimensional materials, whose charge carriers behave as massless Dirac fermions with arbitrary anisotropic Fermi velocity, is investigated. Using Kubo formalism, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

Half a century ago, Veselago proposed left-handed materials with negative permittivity and permeability, in which waves propagate with phase and group velocities in opposite directions. Significant work has been undertaken to attain this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Gil-Ho Lee , Geon-Hyoung Park , Hu-Jong Lee

We consider the plasmon excitations in anisotropic two-dimensional Dirac systems, be it either anisotropic graphene or surfaces of topological insulators. Generalizing the exact density-density response function one finds a plasmon…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-10 Roland Hayn , Te Wei , Vyacheslav M. Silkin , Jeroen van den Brink

Emergent Dirac fermion states underlie many intriguing properties of graphene, and the search for them constitute one strong motivation to explore two-dimensional (2D) allotropes of other elements. Phosphorene, the ultrathin layers of black…

Veselago pointed out that electromagnetic wave theory allows for materials with a negative index of refraction, in which most known optical phenomena would be reversed. A slab of such a material can focus light by negative refraction, an…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-17 Martin Leder , Christopher Grossert , Martin Weitz

The resolution of conventional optical lenses is limited by the wavelength. Materials with negative refractive index have been shown to enable the generation of an enhanced resolution image where both propagating and non-propagating waves…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-25 Asaf Farhi , David J. Bergman

Discovering Dirac fermions with novel properties has become an important front in condensed matter and materials sciences. Here, we report the observation of unusual Dirac fermion states in a strongly-correlated electron setting, which are…

The feasibility of Veselago lensing in graphene with a p-n junction is investigated numerically for realistic injection leads. Two different set-ups with two narrow leads are considered with absorbing or reflecting side edges. This allows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 S. P. Milovanovic , D. Moldovan , F. M. Peeters

Based on the dyadic Green's function (DGF) method, we present a formalism to study the propagation of electromagnetic fields with slowly varying amplitude (EMFSVA) in dispersive anisotropic media with two dyadic constitutive parameters, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Stanislav I. Maslovski , Hodjat Mariji

Holographic quantum matter exploits the AdS/CFT correspondence to study systems in condensed matter physics. An example of these systems are strongly correlated semimetals, which feature a rich phase diagram structure. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Sebastián Bahamondes , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido
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