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The motion of massless Dirac-electrons in graphene mimics the propagation of photons. This makes it possible to control the charge-carriers with components based on geometrical-optics and has led to proposals for an all-graphene…

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

Studies of the structural, electronic, and optical characteristics of the interfaces between graphene and ZnO polar surfaces is carried out using first-principles simulations. At the interface, a strong van der Waals force is present, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-23 H. D. Etea , K. N. Nigussa

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

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

The focusing of electron flow in a symmetric p-n junction (PNJ) of graphene ribbon with different chiralities is studied. Considering the PNJ with the sharp interface, in a armchair ribbon, the electron flow emitting from $(-L,0)$ in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yanxia Xing , Jian Wang , Qing-feng Sun

Twisted bilayer graphene is a chiral system which has been recently shown to present circular dichroism. In this work we show that the origin of this optical activity is the rotation of the Dirac fermions' helicities in the top and bottom…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-18 E. Suarez Morell , Leonor Chico , Luis Brey

Massless Dirac fermions in graphene provide unprecedented opportunities to realize the Klein paradox, which is one of the most exotic and striking properties of relativistic particles. In the seminal theoretical work [Katsnelson et al.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Bin Qiao , Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , Lin He

Veselago lens focusing in graphene p-n junction is promising for realizations of new generation electron optics devices. However, the effect of the strain-induced Aharonov-Bohm interference in a p-n junction has not been discussed before.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Sanjay Prabhakar , Rabindra Nepal , Roderick Melnik , Alexey A. Kovalev

We present measurements of transmission and reflection spectra of a microwave photonic crystal composed of 874 metallic cylinders arranged in a triangular lattice. The spectra show clear evidence of a Dirac point, a characteristic of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 S. Bittner , B. Dietz , M. Miski-Oglu , P. Oria Iriarte , A. Richter , F. Schaefer

We propose an implementation of a valley selective electronic Veselago lens in bilayer graphene. We demonstrate that in the presence of an appropriately oriented potential step, low-energy electrons radiating from a point source can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Csaba G. Péterfalvi , László Oroszlány , Colin J. Lambert , József Cserti

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yuanchang Li , Pengcheng Chen , Gang Zhou , Jia Li , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

In this review article we discuss the recent progress in studying ballistic transport for charge carriers in graphene through highly inhomogenous magnetic field known as magnetic barrier in combination with gate voltage induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

A new transport regime of photon in two-dimensional photonic crystal near the Dirac point has been demonstrated by exact numerical simulation. In this regime, the conductance of photon is inversely proportional to the thickness of sample,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangdong Zhang

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

Electrons in graphene behave like Dirac fermions, permitting phenomena from high energy physics to be studied in a solid state setting. A key question is whether or not these Fermions are critically influenced by Coulomb correlations. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 James P. Reed , Bruno Uchoa , Young Il Joe , Yu Gan , Diego Casa , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

We study the properties of Dirac fermions on the surface of a topological insulator in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. We provide an exact solution to this problem and demonstrate that, in contrast to their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Mondal , D. Sen , K. Sengupta , R. Shankar

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

The electrons in graphene for energies close to the Dirac point have been found to form strongly interacting fluid. Taking this fact into account we have extended previous work on the transport properties of graphene by taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Marek Rogatko , Karol. I. Wysokinski