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We study the quasiparticle properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions when the many-body states possess a finite momentum density in the clean limit. The lack of Galilean invariance endows the many-body states at finite momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Inti Sodemann

A p-n junction, induced in graphene by gating, works to contrast the edge states of electrons and holes on each side of it. In a magnetic field those edge states carry two species of persistent current, which are intimately tied to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 K. Shizuya

Multilayer graphene lattices allow for an additional tunability of the band structure by the strong perpendicular electric field. In particular, the emergence of the new multiple Dirac points in ABA stacked trilayer graphene subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Peng Rao , Maksym Serbyn

The perfect transmission of charge carriers through potential barriers in graphene (Klein tunneling) is a direct consequence of the Dirac equation that governs the low-energy carrier dynamics. As a result, localized states do not exist in…

Electrons in two-dimensional graphene sheets behave as interacting chiral Dirac fermions and have unique screening properties due to their symmetry and reduced dimensionality. By using a combination of scanning tunneling spectroscopy…

Generating discernible valley contrasts and segregating valley-indexed fermions in real space within graphene poses considerable challenges due to the isotropic transport within the continuum energy range for degenerate valleys. This study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Shrushti Tapar , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We investigate the effects of the curved geometry on a massless relativistic electron constrained to a graphene strip with a Moebius strip shape. The anisotropic and parity-violating geometry of the Moebius band produces a geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 L. N. Monteiro , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

We describe the lattice deformation in graphene under strain effect by considering the spacial-momenta coordinates do not commute. This later can be realized by introducing the star product to end up with a generalized Heisenberg algebra.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ahmed Jellal

The propagation of Dirac fermions in graphene through a long-period periodic potential would result in a band folding together with the emergence of a series of cloned Dirac points (DPs). In highly aligned graphene/hexagonal boron nitride…

We calculate the spectrum of massive Dirac fermions in graphene in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field modeled by a step function. We find an analytical universal relation between the bandwidths and the propagating velocities of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 L. Dell'Anna , A. Alidoust Ghatar , D. Jahani

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

Theory predicts that graphene under uniaxial compressive strain in an armchair direction should undergo a topological phase transition from a semimetal into an insulator. Due to the change of the hopping integrals under compression, both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 J. Feilhauer , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Birefringent fermions arise as massless fermionic low energy excitations of a particular tight binding model for spinless fermions on a square lattice which have two "speeds of light" [M. P. Kennett, ${\it et \, al.}$, Phys. Rev. A ${\bf…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-28 Nazanin Komeilizadeh , Malcolm P. Kennett

The electronic structure of Bernal-stacked graphite subject to tilted magnetic fields has been investigated using infrared magneto-transmission experiments. With the increasing in-plane component of the magnetic field B, we observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 N. A. Goncharuk , L. Nadvornik , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , L. Smrcka

Dirac fermions in graphene may experiment dispersive pseudo-Landau levels due to a homogeneous pseudomagnetic field and a position-dependent Fermi velocity induced by strain. In this paper, we study the (semi-classical) dynamics of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Erik Díaz-Bautista , Maurice Oliva-Leyva

The realization of next-generation quantum computing devices is hindered by the formidable challenge of detecting and manipulating Majorana Fermion in nanomaterials. In this study, we explore a new approach of detecting Majorana Fermion in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Chi Ho Wong

Motivated by the recent measurement of the activation energy at the quantum Hall state at the filling factor f=1 in graphene we discuss the scaling of the interaction-induced gaps in vicinity of the Dirac point with the magnetic field. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-20 Igor F. Herbut , Bitan Roy

We study the transmission probability of Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our system made of two triangular potential barrier regions separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We present a numerical method to compute the Landauer conductance of noninteracting two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions in disordered systems. The method allows for the introduction of boundary conditions at the ribbon edges and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

A topological concern is addressed in view of the extensively and intensively studied topological phases of condensed matter. In this realm, the phases with topological order cannot be characterized by symmetry alone. Moreover, the relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 C. H. Ho , M. F. Lin