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We study the behavior of charge carriers in graphene in inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic fields. We consider two types of one-dimensional magnetic profiles, uniform in one direction: a sequence of N magnetic barriers, and a sequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-27 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

In this paper, we study valley degree of freedom in all dielectric silicon photonic graphene. Photonic band gap opening physics under inversion symmetry breaking is revisited by the viewpoint of nonzero valley Chern number. Bulk valley…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiao-Dong Chen , Jian-Wen Dong

The ability to localize and manipulate individual quasiparticles in mesoscopic structures is critical in experimental studies of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, and in potential quantum information devices, e.g., for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Scott Mills , Anna Gura , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Matthew Dawber , Dmitri Averin , Xu Du

We show a dramatic deviation from ergodicity for the conductance fluctuations in graphene. In marked contrast to the ergodicity of dirty metals, fluctuations generated by varying magnetic field are shown to be much smaller than those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 G. Bohra , R. Somphonsane , N. Aoki , Y. Ochiai , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry , J. P. Bird

Valley degrees of freedom, providing a novel way to increase capacity and efficiency of information processing, have become an important instrument for photonics. Experimental studies on photonic topological valley kink states at interfaces…

This work investigates the feasibility of electrical valley filtering for holes in transition metal dichalcogenides. We look specifically into the scheme that utilizes a potential barrier to produce valley-dependent tunneling rates, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Tzu-Chi Hsieh , Mei-Yin Chou , Yu-Shu Wu

We propose a device for the generation of valley polarized electronic current in bilayer graphene. By analyzing the response of this material to intense terahertz frequency light in the presence of a transverse electric field, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

The induced current density, corresponding to the massless Dirac equation in (2+1) dimensions in a magnetic flux tube of small radius is considered. This problem is important for graphene. In the case, when an electron can not penetrate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alexander I. Milstein , Ivan S. Terekhov

We report that a perpendicular magnetic field introduces an anomalous interaction correction, $\delta \sigma$, to the static conductivity of doped graphene in the ballistic regime. The correction implies that the magnetoresistance, $\delta…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ke Wang , T. A. Sedrakyan

We explore hydrodynamics of Dirac fermions in neutral graphene in the Corbino geometry. In the absence of magnetic field, the bulk Ohmic charge flow and the hydrodynamic energy flow are decoupled. However, the energy flow does affect the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Vanessa Gall , Boris N. Narozhny , Igor V. Gornyi

Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene on its electron dispersion relations close to K point. It was shown that for both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Stanisław Krukowski , Jakub Sołtys , Jolanta Borysiuk , Jacek Piechota

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

Graphene corrugations affect hybridization of $\pi$ and $\sigma$ orbitals of carbon atoms in graphene based systems. It can as well break differently the symmetry of the electron transfer integrals for different strip boundaries. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 M. Pudlak , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We propose an all-electrical setup to generate valley polarization in graphene. A finite graphene sheet is connected to two normal metal electrodes each with two terminals along its zigzag edges, while the armchair edges remain free. When a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sachchidanand Das , Abhiram Soori

We study the electronic transport properties at the intersection of three topological zero-lines as the elementary current partition node that arises in minimally twisted bilayer graphene. Unlike the partition laws of two intersecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Tao Hou , Yafei Ren , Yujie Quan , Jeil Jung , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

We study quasi-particle transmission through an $n $-$p$ junction in a graphene irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum of undoped graphene is gapless, and one may expect the perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

The electrostatic confinement of massless charge carriers is hampered by Klein tunneling. Circumventing this problem in graphene mainly relies on carving out nanostructures or applying electric displacement fields to open a band gap in…

We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

Electron hydrodynamics is an emerging framework that describes dynamics of interacting electron systems as conventional fluids. While evidence for hydrodynamic-like transport is reported in a variety of two-dimensional materials, precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yihang Zeng , Haoyu Guo , Olivia M. Ghosh , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Leonid S. Levitov , Cory R. Dean