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Magnetic barriers in graphene are not easily tunable. However, introducing both electric and magnetic fields, provides tunable and far more controllable electronic states in graphene. Here we study such systems. A one-dimensional channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Franco Nori

We present a device architecture of hybrid-edge and dual-gated quantum point contact. We demonstrate improved electrostatic control over the separation, position, and coupling of each broken-symmetry compressible strip in graphene. Via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Jaden Ma , Xihe Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

Free electron like image potential states are observed in scanning tunneling spectroscopy on graphene quantum dots on Ir(111) acting as potential wells. The spectrum strongly depends on the size of the nanostructure as well as on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Fabian Craes , Sven Runte , Jürgen Klinkhammer , Marko Kralj , Thomas Michely , Carsten Busse

We propose a graphene-based model for realizing a new type of gapless condensate by pairing of electron-like (n) carriers of a Dirac cone conduction band with hole-like (p) carriers of a Dirac valance band. Ferromagnetic superconductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mir Vahid Hosseini , Malek Zareyan

When electrons populate a flat band their kinetic energy becomes negligible, forcing them to organize in exotic many-body states to minimize their Coulomb energy. The zeroth Landau level of graphene under magnetic field is a particularly…

We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature regime the symmetry allowed spin orbit potential converts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Bilayer graphene contains, compared to graphene monolayer, an additional graphene sheet and, therefore, extra degrees of freedom, making it a unique system for complex electronic states to emerge. Here, we show that there are two types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Long-Jing , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wei-Jie Zuo , Lin He

We report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a…

Multilayer graphene lattices allow for an additional tunability of the band structure by the strong perpendicular electric field. In particular, the emergence of the new multiple Dirac points in ABA stacked trilayer graphene subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Peng Rao , Maksym Serbyn

Previous works on deformed graphene predict the existence of valley-polarized states, however, optimal conditions for their detection remain challenging. We show that in the quantum Hall regime, edge-like states in strained regions can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 D. Faria , C. León , L. R. F. Lima , A. Latgé , N. Sandler

In the quantum Hall regime of graphene, antiferromagnetic and spin-polarized ferromagnetic states at the zeroth Landau level compete, leading to a canted antiferromagnetic state depending on the direction and magnitude of an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Y. Li , M. Amado , T. Hyart , G. P. Mazur , V. Risinggård , T. Wagner , L. McKenzie Sell , G. Kimbell , J. Wunderlich , J. Linder , J. W. A. Robinson

We introduce a many-body state termed superpolarized electron-hole liquid to explain the multiferroic properties observed in a recent experiment on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene by Han et al. [Nature 623, 41-47, 2023] . Superpolarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Mainak Das , Chunli Huang

We compare the conductance of an undoped graphene sheet with a small region subject to an electrostatic gate potential for the cases that the dynamics in the gated region is regular (disc-shaped region) and classically chaotic (stadium).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 J. H. Bardarson , M. Titov , P. W. Brouwer

The non-interacting energy spectrum of graphene and its bilayer counterpart consists of multiple degeneracies owing to the inherent spin, valley and layer symmetries. Interactions among charge carriers are expected to spontaneously break…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Thomas Weitz , Monica T. Allen , Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

We demonstrate the existence of localized electron and hole states in a ring-shaped potential kink in biased bilayer graphene. Within the continuum description, we show that for sharp potential steps the Dirac equation describing carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. J. P. Xavier , J. M. Pereira , Andrey Chaves , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

In a GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron system with two occupied subbands, the experimentally determined phase diagram in the density-magnetic field plane exhibits rich topological features. Ring-like structures are observed at even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. C. Zhang , D. R. Faulhaber , H. W. Jiang

At the interface of electrostatic potential kink profiles one dimensional chiral states are found in bilayer graphene (BLG). Such structures can be created by applying an asymmetric potential to the upper and the lower layer of BLG. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Zarenia , J. M. Pereira , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

Due to Klein tunneling in graphene only quasi-bound states are realized in graphene quantum dots by electrostatic gating. Particles in the quasi-bound states are trapped inside the dot for a finite time and they keep bouncing back and forth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Abdelhadi Belouad , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We investigate transport in a gate-defined graphene quantum point contact in the quantum Hall regime. Edge states confined to the interface of p and n regions in the graphene sheet are controllably brought together from opposite sides of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-15 S. Nakaharai , J. R. Williams , C. M. Marcus

In a two-subband GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron system, the phase diagram of longitudinal resistivity \rho_xx in density and magnetic field plane exhibits an intriguing structure centered at filling factor \nu = 4 which is strikingly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. C. Zhang , I. Martin , H. W. Jiang