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It is shown that an attenuated total reflection structure containing a graphene layer can operate as a tunable polarizer of the electromagnetic radiation. The polarization angle is controlled by adjusting the voltage applied to graphene via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy , Nuno M. R. Peres

The response of an electron system to electromagnetic fields with sharp spatial variations is strongly dependent on quantum electronic properties, even in ambient conditions, but difficult to access experimentally. We use propagating…

We propose a novel conceptual design for a graphene-based quantum engine, driven by a superposition of mechanical strain and an external magnetic field. Engineering of strain in a nanoscale graphene flake creates a gauge field with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Francisco J. Peña , Enrique Muñoz

We show that periodically doped, flat surfaces can act as reflective diffraction gratings for atomic and molecular matter waves. The diffraction element is realized by exploiting that charged dopants locally suppress quantum reflection from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 Benjamin A. Stickler , Uzi Even , Klaus Hornberger

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

We show that surface plasmons of a two-dimensional Dirac metal such as graphene can be reflected by line-like perturbations hosting one-dimensional electron states. The reflection originates from a strong enhancement of the local optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Guangxin Ni , Cheng Pan , Zhe Fei , Bin Cheng , Chun Ning Lau , Marc Bockrath , Dimitri N. Basov , Michael M. Fogler

We show that up to 90% reflectivity can be achieved by using guided plasmonic resonances in a one-dimensional periodic array of plasmonic nanoribbon. In general, to achieve strong reflection from a guided resonance system requires one to…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-13 Nathan Zhao , Zhexin Zhao , Ian Williamson , Salim Boutami , Bo Zhao , Shanhui Fan

Introducing quantum confinement has uncovered a rich set of interesting quantum phenomena and allows one to directly probe the physics of confined (quasi-)particles. In most experiments, however, electrostatic potential is the only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

We study the Landau levels in curved graphene sheets by measuring the discrete energy spectrum in the presence of a magnetic field. We observe that in rippled graphene sheets, the Landau energy levels satisfy the same square root dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Jens-Daniel Debus , Miller Mendoza , Hans Jürgen Herrmann

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We investigate the low energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the system deformations into an effective gauge field. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Enrique Arias , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio Lewenkopf

We develop a long wavelength approximation in order to describe the low-energy states of carbon nanotubes in a transverse magnetic field. We show that, in the limit where the square of the magnetic length $l = \sqrt{\hbar c /e B}$ is much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Perfetto , J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We study the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) radiation with single-layer graphene and a stack of parallel graphene sheets at arbitrary angles of incidence. It is found that the behavior is qualitatively different for transverse magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

Graphene offers a possibility for actively controlling plasmon confinement and propagation by tailoring its spatial conductivity pattern. However, implementation of this concept has been hampered because uncontrollable plasmon reflection is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Ngoc Han Tu , Katsumasa Yoshioka , Satoshi Sasaki , Makoto Takamura , Koji Muraki , Norio Kumada

Strong Goos-H\"anchen (GH) effect at a prism-graphene interface in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) condition is reported. Based on the full quantum description of the temperature-dependent surface conductivity of graphene present in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 D. Jahani , O. Akhavan , A. Alidoust Ghatar

The ability of graphene to support long-lived, electrically tunable plasmons that interact strongly with light, combined with its highly nonlinear optical response, has generated great expectations for application of the atomically-thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Joel D. Cox , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo

The one-loop dynamical polarization function of graphene in an external magnetic field is calculated as a function of wavevector and frequency at finite chemical potential, temperature, band gap, and width of Landau levels. The exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-28 P. K. Pyatkovskiy , V. P. Gusynin

Based on the Lorenz-Mie theory, we derive analytical expressions of radiative and nonradiative transition rates for different orientations of a point dipole emitter in the vicinity of an infinitely long circular cylinder of arbitrary…

We investigate an effective model of proximity modified graphene (or symmetrylike materials) with broken time-reversal symmetry. We predict the appearance of quantum anomalous Hall phases by computing bulk band gap and Chern numbers for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Klaus Zollner , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We present an approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect observed in grapheme (GFQHE), basing us on the model developed previously for the fractional quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system embedded in a quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 M. A. Hidalgo