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We demonstrate that dislocations in the graphene lattice give rise to electron Berry phases equivalent to quantized values {0,1/3,-1/3} in units of the flux quantum, but with an opposite sign for the two valleys. An elementary scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Andrej Mesaros , Darius Sadri , Jan Zaanen

We analyze universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) in graphene in the framework of diagrammatic perturbation theory in the metallic regime. It is shown that strong inter-valley scattering lifts the valley degeneracy of electronic states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Kechedzhi , O. Kashuba , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We study the renormalization of the Fermi velocity by the long-range Coulomb interactions between the charge carriers in the Dirac-cone approximation for the effective low-energy description of the electronic excitations in graphene at half…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-13 C. Popovici , C. S. Fischer , L. von Smekal

The intertube conductance $G$ of the parallel side contacted armchair nanotubes is calculated by Landauer's formula as a function of the Fermi level $E$. When the intertube difference in the dope strength is large enough, a resonant peak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Ryo Tamura

We theoretically study valley-filtering in pristine graphene irradiated by bicircular counter-rotating laser drive. The dynamical symmetry of the graphene and laser drive disrupts graphene's inversion symmetry, which results distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Rekha Kumari , Gopal Dixit , Arijit Kundu

The Fermi velocity is one of the key concepts in the study of a material, as it bears information on a variety of fundamental properties. Upon increasing demand on the device applications, graphene is viewed as a prototypical system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Choongyu Hwang , David A. Siegel , Sung-Kwan Mo , William Regan , Ariel Ismach , Yuegang Zhang , Alex Zettl , Alessandra Lanzara

Here we theoretically investigate the valley-dependent transmission of particles through a combined electric and magnetic barrier in the $\alpha-T_3$ model which interpolates between the honeycomb and the dice lattices. We put forward that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 F. Bouhadida , L. Mandhour , S. Charfi-Kaddour

We consider tunneling transport between two parallel graphene sheets where one is a single-layer sample and the other one a bilayer. In the presence of an in-plane magnetic field, the interplay between combined energy and momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 L Pratley , U. Zuelicke

The group delay time of Dirac fermions subjected to a tilting barrier potential along the $ x $-axis is investigated in graphene. We start by finding the eigenspinor solution of the Dirac equation and then relating it to incident,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Youssef Fattasse , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Abdelhadi Bahaoui

The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

The aim of this work is to describe the electronic properties of graphene in a constant magnetic field in the long wavelength approximation with random binary disorder, by solving the Soven equation self-consistently. Density of state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

We propose a device in which a sheet of graphene is coupled to a Weyl semimetal, allowing for the physical access to the study of tunneling from two-dimensional to three dimensional massless Dirac fermions. Due to the reconstructed band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Ahmed Khalifa , Ribhu K. Kaul , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

Band gap engineering in graphene may open the routes towards transistor devices in which electric current can be switched off and on at will. One may, however, ask if a semiconducting band gap alone is sufficient to quench the current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 G. Tkachov , Martina Hentschel

Monolayer graphene is an example of materials with multi-valley electronic structure. In such materials, the valley index is being considered as an information carrier. Consequently, relaxation mechanisms leading to loss of valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Péter Boross , András Pályi

The electronic states at graphene-SiO$_2$ interface and their inhomogeneity was investigated using the back-gate-voltage dependence of local tunnel spectra acquired with a scanning tunneling microscope. The conductance spectra show two, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Anil Kumar Singh , Anjan K. Gupta

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yuanchang Li , Pengcheng Chen , Gang Zhou , Jia Li , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

The paper reports a theoretical study of scattering of electrons by edges in graphene and its effect on Raman scattering. First, effective models are discussed for translationally invariant and rough edges. Second, they are used in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-28 D. M. Basko

We investigate charge and energy transport in monolayer graphene with smooth finite-range disorder, modeled by soft impurity potentials. Using a continuum Dirac model, we go beyond the Born approximation by computing the exact scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , A. Martín-Ruiz

The planar-diagrammatic technique of large-$N$ random matrices is extended to evaluate averages over the circular ensemble of unitary matrices. It is then applied to study transport through a disordered metallic ``grain'', attached through…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. Argaman , A. Zee

We demonstrate valley-dependent vortex generation in a photonic graphene. Without breaking the inversion symmetry, excitation of two equivalent valleys leads to formation of an optical vortex upon Bragg-reflection to the third valley, with…