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The ab initio band structure of 2D graphene sheet is well reproduced by the third nearest neighbor tight binding model proposed by Reich et al [Phys. Rev. B 66, 035412]. For ribbon structures, the existing sets of tight binding parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-10 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint-Martin , Philippe Dollfus , Sebastian Volz

The adsorption of an alkali-metal submonolayer on graphene occupying every third hexagon of the honeycomb lattice in a commensurate $(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30^\circ$ arrangement induces an energy gap in the spectrum of graphene. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-27 M. Farjam , H. Rafii-Tabar

We study theoretically the coherent electron focusing in graphene nanoribbons. Using semiclassical and numerical tight binding calculations we show that perfect armchair edges give rise to equidistant peaks in the focusing spectrum. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti , Pekka Koskinen

We have studied zigzag and armchair graphene nano ribbons (GNRs), described by the Hubbard Hamiltonian using quantum many body configuration interaction methods. Due to finite termination, we find that the bipartite nature of the graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Sudipta Dutta , S. Lakshmi , Swapan K. Pati

Consider the tight binding model of graphene, sharply terminated along an edge ${\bf l}$ parallel to a direction of translational symmetry of the underlying period lattice. We classify such edges ${\bf l}$ into those of "zigzag type" and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 C. L. Fefferman , S. Fliss , M. I. Weinstein

Systems that can be described with the same mathematical models that account for the properties of electrons in graphene are known as graphene-like systems. These include magnons, photons, polaritons, acoustic waves, and electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier

We report the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems made of graphene nanoribbons which are patterned with ad-atoms in two separated regions. Due to the extra electronic confinement induced by the presence of the impurities, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 J. W. González , L. Rosales , M. Pacheco , A. Ayuela

We present a tight-binding parametrization for penta-graphene that correctly describes its electronic band structure and linear optical response. The set of parameters is validated by comparing to ab-initio density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-25 Sergio Bravo , J. D. Correa , Leonor Chico , M. Pacheco

We report an exact map into one dimensional effective chains, of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for electrons in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons with any uniaxial ripple. This mapping is used for studying the effect of uniaxial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

We benchmark the recently proposed projection method [Phys. Rev. B 111, 205133 (2025)] for magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) across various symmetry-breaking phases at charge neutrality. The flat-band projected solutions agree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Tobias Stauber

Electron scattering in the monolayer graphene with short-range impurities modelled by the annular well with a band-asymmetric potential has been considered. Band-asymmetry of the potential resulted in the mass (gap) perturbation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

Recently, atomically well-defined cove-shaped graphene nanoribbons have been obtained using bottom-up synthesis. These nanoribbons have an optical gap in the visible range of the spectrum which make them candidates for donor materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Cesar E. P. Villegas , Pedro B. Mendonça , Alexandre Rocha

We study the conductance through two types of graphene nanostructures: nanoribbon junctions in which the width changes from wide to narrow, and curved nanoribbons. In the wide-narrow structures, substantial reflection occurs from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 J. Wurm , M. Wimmer , I. Adagideli , K. Richter , H. U. Baranger

We investigate the fine structure of the edge states energy spectrum for zigzag and armchair ribbons of graphene in a strong magnetic field. At low energy, the spectra can be described by an effective Schrodinger Hamiltonian with a double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-05 Pierre Delplace , Gilles Montambaux

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

The two-dimensional carbon allotrope graphene has recently attracted a lot of attention from researchers in the disciplines of Lattice Field Theory, Lattice QCD and Monte Carlo calculations. This interest has been prompted by several…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-04 Timo A. Lähde , Joaquín E. Drut

A theory of electron states for graphene nanoribbons with a smoothly varying width is developed. It is demonstrated that the standard adiabatic approximation allowing to neglect the mixing of different standing waves is more restrictive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson

Graphene nanoribbon folds with single and double closed edges are studied using density functional theory methods. Van der Waals dispersive interactions are included via semi-empirical pairwise optimized potential. The geometrical phases of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-09 Nam B. Le , Lilia M. Woods

We propose a first principles effective medium formalism to study the propagation of electron waves in semiconductor heterostructures with a zero-band gap. Our theory confirms that near the K-point the dynamics of a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Sylvain Lannebère , Mário G. Silveirinha

Graphene- the wonder material has attracted a great deal of attention from varied fields of condensed matter physics, materials science and chemistry in recent times. Its 2D atomic layer structure and unique electronic band structure makes…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-23 Deep Jariwala , Anchal Srivastava , Pulickel Ajayan