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The magnetic circular dichroism and the Faraday rotation are the fundamental phenomena of great practical importance arising from the breaking of the time reversal symmetry by a magnetic field. In most materials the strength and the sign of…

We demonstrate that hexagonal graphene nanoflakes with zigzag edges display quantum interference (QI) patterns analogous to benzene molecular junctions. In contrast with graphene sheets, these nanoflakes also host magnetism. The cooperative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-26 Angelo Valli , Adriano Amaricci , Valentina Brosco , Massimo Capone

We aim to understand how the van der Waals force between neutral adatoms and a graphene layer is modified by uniaxial strain and electron correlation effects. A detailed analysis is presented for three atoms (He, H, and Na) and graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Nathan S. Nichols , Adrian Del Maestro , Carlos Wexler , Valeri N. Kotov

We investigate the quantum Hall effect in graphene. We argue that in graphene in presence of an external magnetic field there is dynamical generation of mass by a rearrangement of the Dirac sea. We show that the mechanism breaks the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Paolo Cea

A review work is done for electronic and optical properties of graphene nanoribbons in magnetic, electric, composite, and modulated fields. Effects due to the lateral confinement, curvature, stacking, non-uniform subsystems and hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Hsien-Ching Chung , Cheng-Peng Chang , Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We extend the Lifshitz theory of the Casimir force to the case of two parallel magnetic metal plates possessing a spatially nonlocal dielectric response. By solving Maxwell equations in the configuration of an electromagnetic wave incident…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

Electrically tunable graphene plasmons are anticipated to enable strong light-matter interactions with resonant quantum emitters. However, plasmon resonances in graphene are typically limited to infrared frequencies, below those of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

Fermi surface topology plays an important role in determining the electronic properties of metals. In bulk metals, the Fermi energy is not easily tunable at the energy scale needed for reaching conditions for the Lifshitz transition - a…

We study the influence of different kinds of gaps in a quasiparticle spectrum on longitudinal and transverse optical conductivities of bilayer graphene. An exact analytical expression for magneto-optical conductivity is derived using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-08 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , A. B. Kuzmenko , S. G. Sharapov

The effect of an inhomogeneous magnetic field which varies inversely as distance on the ground state energy level of graphene is studied. In this work, we analytically show that graphene under the influence of a magnetic field arising from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-05 M. R. Setare , D. Jahani

The electromagnetic response of graphene in a magnetic field is studied, with particular emphasis on the quantum features of its ground state (vacuum). The graphene vacuum, unlike in conventional quantum Hall systems, is a dielectric medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shizuya

Particular strain geometry in graphene could leads to a uniform pseudo-magnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nano-electronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Tony Low , F. Guinea

A distant-neighbor quantum-mechanical method is used to study the nonlinear optical wave mixing in graphene nanoflakes (GNFs), including sum- and difference-frequency generation, as well as four-wave mixing. Our analysis shows that…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-11 Hanying Deng , Changming Huang , Yingji He , Fangwei Ye

A yet unexplored area in graphene electronics is the field of quantum ballistic transport through graphene nanostructures. Recent developments in the preparation of high mobility graphene are expected to lead to the experimental…

Electrodynamic properties of the graphene - magnetic semiconductor - graphene sandwich-structure have been investigated theoretically with taking into account the dissipation processes. Influence of graphene layers on electromagnetic waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov

An analysis of electron transport in graphene is presented in the presence of various arrangement of delta-function like magnetic barriers. The motion through one such barrier gives an unusual non specular refraction leading to asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

Graphene, a two-dimensional material with tunable electronic properties, holds significant importance in condensed matter physics and material science. In this study, we analyze the curvature of graphene's ground-state energy dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Tishya Patel , Yusen Ye , Tharindu Fernando

I calculate the 1-loop vacuum polarization $\Pi_{\mu\nu}(k,B,a)$ for a photon of momentum $k=(\hat k,k_3)$ interacting with the electrons of a thin medium of thickness $2a$ simulating graphene, in the presence of a constant and uniform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-07 Bruno Machet

Flexoelectricity, polarization induced by strain gradients, is especially pronounced in two-dimensional (2D) materials due to their mechanical flexibility and sensitivity to mechanical deformation. In nanostructures with sub-nm curvature,…

A recently proposed step-by-step procedure, to merge the low-energy physics of the $\pi$-bonds electrons of graphene, and quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, is recalled. The last step there is the proposal of an experiment to test a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Alfredo Iorio