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In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Caglar Girit , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

The Coulomb scattering dynamics in graphene in energetic proximity to the Dirac point is investigated by polarization resolved pump-probe spectroscopy and microscopic theory. Collinear Coulomb scattering rapidly thermalizes the carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-07 J. C. König-Otto , M. Mittendorff , T. Winzer , F. Kadi , E. Malic , A. Knorr , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer , A. Pashkin , H. Schneider , M. Helm , S. Winnerl

Photon-assisted electron transport in ballistic graphene is analyzed using scattering theory. We show that the presence of an ac signal (applied to a gate electrode in a region of the system) has interesting consequences on electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Trauzettel , Ya. M. Blanter , A. F. Morpurgo

Excitation of surface plasmon waves in extrinsic graphene is studied using a full-wave electromagnetic field solver as analysis engine. Particular emphasis is placed on the role played by spatial dispersion due to the finite size of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Davide Mencarelli , Stefano Bellucci , Antonello Sindona , Luca Pierantoni

Modifying the hexagonal lattices of graphene enables the repositioning and merging of the Dirac cones which proves to be a key element in the use of these materials for alternative electronic applications such as valleytronics. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Saber Rostamzadeh , Mustafa Sarisaman

Using quasi-time dependent semi-classical transport theory in RTA, we obtained coupled current equations in the presence of time varying field and based on general scattering mechanism $\tau \propto \mathcal{E}^{\beta}$. We find that close…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

We consider the dynamics of charge carriers in single-layer graphene that are subject to random temporal fluctuations of their mass gap. The optical conductivity is calculated by incorporating the quantum-stochastic time evolution into the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Z. Bernád

Intercalation of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) with Sn results in a well-ordered Sn $(1\times1)$ structure on the SiC surface with quasi-freestanding graphene on top. While the electronic properties of the individual layers have been…

Our previous results on the nonperturbative calculations of the mean current and of the energy-momentum tensor in QED with the T-constant electric field are generalized to arbitrary dimensions. The renormalized mean values are found; the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-24 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , N. Yokomizo

Using ultrafast optical pump-probe spectroscopy, we have measured carrier relaxation times in epitaxial graphene layers grown on SiC wafers. We find two distinct time scales associated with the relaxation of nonequilibrium photogenerated…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Jahan M. Dawlaty , Shriram Shivaraman , Mvs Chandrashekhar , Farhan Rana , Michael G. Spencer

Graphene has emerged as a paradigmatic material in condensed matter physics due to its exceptional electronic, mechanical, and thermal properties. A deep understanding of its thermoelectric transport behavior is crucial for the development…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , A. Martín-Ruiz

Using optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy, we study the relaxation dynamics of photoexcited carriers in graphene at different temperatures. We find that at lower temperatures the tail of the relaxation transients as measured by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jared H. Strait , Haining Wang , Shriram Shivaraman , Virgil B. Shields , Michael G. Spencer , Farhan Rana

The optical properties of graphene are made unique by the linear band structure and the vanishing density of states at the Dirac point. It has been proposed that even in the absence of a semiconducting bandgap, a relaxation bottleneck at…

The energy relaxation of carriers in reduced graphene oxide thin films is studied using optical pump-probe spectroscopy with two probes of different colors. We measure the time difference between peaks of the carrier density at each probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Brian A. Ruzicka , Nardeep Kumar , Shuai Wang , Kian Ping Loh , Hui Zhao

In recent years, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have emerged as a novel technique for generating quasiparticle transport and band modulation in condensed matter systems. SAWs interact with adjacent materials through piezoelectric and strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Yicheng Mou , Jiayu Wang , Haonan Chen , Yingchao Xia , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Xue Jiang , Yijia Wu , Wu Shi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , Cheng Zhang

We theoretically examine the effect of carrier-carrier scattering processes (electron-hole and electron-electron) on the intraband radiation absorption and their contribution to the net dynamic conductivity in optically or electrically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 Dmitry Svintsov , Victor Ryzhii , Akira Satou , Taiichi Otsuji , Vladimir Vyurkov

Nonlinear optical properties and carrier relaxation dynamics in graphene, suspended in three different solvents, are investigated using femtosecond (80 fs pulses) Z-scan and degenerate pumpprobe spectroscopy at 790 nm. The results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Sunil Kumar , M. Anija , N. Kamaraju , K. S. Vasu , K. S. Subrahmanyam , A. K. Sood , C. N. R. Rao

We show that the manifestation of quantum interference in graphene is very different from that in conventional two-dimensional systems. Due to the chiral nature of charge carriers, it is sensitive not only to inelastic, phase-breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-09 F. V. Tikhonenko , D. W. Horsell , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Savchenko

We study, by means of a Monte Carlo simulator, the hot phonon effect on the relaxation dynamics in photoexcited graphene and its quantitative impact as compared to considering an equilibrium phonon distribution. Our multi-particle approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 José M. Iglesias , María J. Martín , Elena Pascual , Raúl Rengel

We study theoretically wave-vector and frequency dispersion of the complex dynamic conductivity tensor (DCT), $\sigma_{lm}(\mathbf{k}, \omega)$, of doped monolayer graphene under a strong dc electric field. For a general analysis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 S. M. Kukhtaruk , V. A. Kochelap , V. N. Sokolov , K. W. Kim