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We theoretically investigate electron transport through corrugated graphene ribbons and show how the ribbon curvature leads to an electronic superlattice with a period set by the corrugation wave length. Transport through the ribbon depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isacsson , L. M. Jonsson , J. M. Kinaret , M. Jonson

We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

We review field theoretical studies dedicated to understanding the effects of electron-electron interaction in graphene, which is characterized by gapless bands, strong electron-electron interactions, and emerging Lorentz invariance deep in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 A. V. Kotikov

We review the basic aspects of electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite) exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. One of its most salient features is the relativistic quantum Hall effect the observation of which has been the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-24 M. O. Goerbig

Based on the recently developed picture of an electronic ideal relativistic fluid at the Dirac point, we present an analytical model for the conductivity in graphene that is able to describe the linear dependence on the carrier density and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

We investigate in some detail the structure of the electromagnetic current density for the pseudo-relativistic massless spinor effective model for graphene. It is shown that the pseudo-relativistic massless Dirac field theory in {\em 2+1}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Giacconi , Roberto Soldati

We reveal a dramatic departure of electron thermodiffusion in solids relative to the commonly accepted picture of the ideal free-electron gas model. In particular, we show that the interaction with the lattice and impurities, combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu , F. Javier García de Abajo

Peculiar electronic properties of graphene, including the universal dc conductivity and the pseudodiffusive shot noise, are usually attributed to a small vicinity of the charge-neutrality point, away from which electron's effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Adam Rycerz

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing phenomenon arises with the intrinsic charge transport behavior at the Dirac point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Xu Du

Graphene is a recently discovered carbon based material with unique physical properties. This is a monolayer of graphite, and the two-dimensional electrons and holes in it are described by the effective Dirac equation with a vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Mikhailov , K. Ziegler

Since its discovery in 2004, graphene, a two-dimensional hexagonal carbon allotrope, has generated great interest and spurred research activity from materials science to particle physics and vice versa. In particular, graphene has been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-03 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde , Eero Tölö

We present exact results for the electronic transport properties of graphene sheets connected to two metallic electrodes. Our results, obtained by transfer-matrix methods, are valid for all sheet widths and lengths. In the limit of large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shijie Hu , Wei Du , Guiping Zhang , Miao Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu , Xiaoqun Wang

Local curvature, or bending, of a graphene sheet is known to increase the chemical reactivity presenting an opportunity for templated chemical functionalization. Using first principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-12 Jesper Toft Rasmussen , Tue Gunst , Peter Bøggild , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Mads Brandbyge

We investigate the relativistic quantum dynamics of amassless electron in graphene in a two-dimensional noncommutative (NC) plane under a constant background magnetic field. To address the issue of gauge invariance, we employ an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Aslam Halder

Graphene is the first example of truly two-dimensional crystals - it's just one layer of carbon atoms. It turns out to be a gapless semiconductor with unique electronic properties resulting from the fact that charge carriers in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson , K. S. Novoselov

Graphene is a 2-dimensional material with high carrier mobility and thermal conductivity, suitable for high-speed electronics. Conduction and valence bands touch at the Dirac point. The absorptivity of single-layer graphene is 2.3%, nearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Marcus Freitag , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Mathias Steiner , Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

We explore the gapped graphene structure in the two-dimensional plane in the presence of the Rosen-Morse potential and an external uniform magnetic field. In order to describe the corresponding structure, we consider the propagation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 A. Kalani , Alireza Amani , M. A. Ramzanpour

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

Exact stationary solutions of the electron-photon Dirac equation are obtained to describe the strong interaction between massless Dirac fermions in graphene and circularly polarized photons. It follows from them that this interaction forms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-26 O. V. Kibis