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The effective theory for bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to parallel/in-plane magnetic fields, is derived. With a sizable magnetic field the trigonal warping becomes irrelevant, and one ends up with two Dirac points in the vicinity of each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Bitan Roy , Kun Yang

The behaviour of a Dirac electron in graphene, under magnetic fields which are orthogonal to the layer, is studied. The initial problem is reduced to an equivalent one, where two one-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger Hamiltonians $H^{\pm}$ are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Miguel Castillo-Celeita , David J. Fernández C

We investigate magnetic instabilities in charge-neutral twisted bilayer graphene close to so-called "magic angles" using a combination of real-space Hartree-Fock and dynamical mean-field theories. In view of the large size of the unit cell…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-08 Javad Vahedi , Robert Peters , Ahmed Missaoui , Andreas Honecker , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

A properly strained graphene monolayer or bilayer is expected to harbour periodic pseudo-magnetic fields with high symmetry, yet to date, a convincing demonstration of such pseudo-magnetic fields has been lacking, especially for bilayer…

A transfer matrix approach is used to study the electronic transport in graphene superlattices with long-range correlated barrier spacements. By considering the low-energy electronic excitations as massless Dirac fermions, we compute by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Jonas R. F. Lima , Ícaro S. F. Bezerra , Marcelo L. Lyra

The electronic structure of Bernal-stacked graphite subject to tilted magnetic fields is studied theoretically. The minimal nearest-neighbor tight-binding model with the Peierls substitution is employed to describe the structure of Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 Nataliya A. Goncharuk , Ludvik Smrcka

Electronic properties of surface areas decoupled from graphite are studied using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy. We show that it is possible to identify decoupled graphene monolayer, Bernal bilayer, and Bernal trilayer on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Long-Jing Yin , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We investigate how a localized curvature affects the dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in a curved surface. We consider a smooth bump with axial symmetry, adopting two specific geometric models, namely a Gaussian and a volcano-like bumps.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. R. N. Lima , D. F. S. Veras , J. E. G. Silva

The above question is frequently asked by theorists who are interested in graphene as a model system, especially in context of relativistic quantum physics. We offer an experimental answer by describing electron transport in suspended…

The low energy electronic excitations in single layer and bilayer graphite (graphene) resemble quantum-relativistic particles also known as Dirac Fermions (DF). They possess an internal degree of freedom, chirality, that leads to unusual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei

Massless Dirac fermions in graphene can acquire a mass through different kinds of sublattice-symmetry-breaking perturbations, and there is a growing need to determine this mass using a conventional method. We describe how the mass caused by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Ken-ichi Sasaki

Edge structure plays an essential role in the nature of electronic states in graphene nanoribbons. By focusing on the interplay between this feature and non-trivial topology in the domain of the Dirac confinement problem, this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 J. F. O de Souza , Claudio Furtado

We study uniaxially strained graphene under the influence of non-uniform magnetic fields perpendicular to the material sample with a coordinate independent strain tensor. For that purpose, we solve the Dirac equation with anisotropic Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-12 Yajaira Concha Sanchez , Adolfo Huet , Alfredo Raya , David Valenzuela

We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vit Jakubsky , Raul Valencia-Torres

Localized states in graphene have garnered significant attention in quantum information science due to their potential applications. Despite graphene's superior transport and electronic properties compared to other semiconductors, achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Seunghyun Jun , Myung-Chul Jung , Nojoon Myoung

Ab initio calculations indicate that while the electronic states introduced by grain boundaries in graphene are only partially confined to the defect core, a domain boundary introduces states near the Fermi level that are very strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 Simone S. Alexandre , A. D. Lucio , A. H. Castro Neto , R. W. Nunes

Dirac electrons in finite graphene samples with zigzag edges under high magnetic fields (in the regime of Landau-level formation) are investigated with regard to their bulk-type and edge-type character. We employ tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We report high magnetic field scanning tunneling microscopy and Landau level spectroscopy of twisted graphene layers grown by chemical vapor deposition. For twist angles exceeding ~3 degrees the low energy carriers exhibit Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 A. Luican , Guohong Li , A. Reina , J. Kong , R. R. Nair , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , E. Y. Andrei

We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Jonas R. F. Lima

Removing a single-carbon vacancy introduces (quasi-)localized states for both and electrons in graphene. Interactions between the localized dangling bond and quasilocalized electrons of a single-carbon vacancy in graphene are predicted to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-07 Yu Zhang , Fei Gao , Shiwu Gao , Lin He