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Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in the regions of the Moir\'e pattern with $AA$ stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

We have studied the electronic properties in aperiodic graphene superlattices of Thue-Morse sequence. Although the structure is aperiodic, an unusual Dirac point (DP) does exist and its location is exactly at the position of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 Tianxing Ma , Chun Liang , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

The electronic properties of graphene zig-zag nanoribbons with electrostatic potentials along the edges are investigated. Using the Dirac-fermion approach, we calculate the energy spectrum of an infinitely long nanoribbon of finite width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 W. Apel , G. Pal , L. Schweitzer

We discuss the novel electronic properties of graphene under an external periodic scalar or vector potential, and the analytical and numerical methods used to investigate them. When graphene is subjected to a one-dimensional periodic scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 Cheol-Hwan Park , Liang Zheng Tan , Steven G. Louie

This thesis studies how the rudimentary attributes of graphene's charge carriers, and local moments on its surface, can be directly manipulated and controlled with electrostatic potentials. We first consider bilayer graphene subject to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-25 Matthew Killi

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

It is well established that some kinds of lattice deformations in graphene monolayer, which change electron hopping in sublattice and affect in-plane motion of electrons, may induce out-of-plane pseudo-magnetic fields as large as 100 T.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Wen-Yu He , Ying Su , Mudan Yang , Lin He

We study the energy spectrum and electronic properties of graphene in a periodic magnetic field of zero average with a symmetry of triangular lattice. The periodic field leads to formation of a set of minibands separated by gaps, which can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Taillefumier , V. K. Dugaev , B. Canals , C. Lacroix , P. Bruno

We demonstrate how the zitterbewegung charge oscillations can be detected through a charge conductance measurement in a three-terminal junction. By tuning the spin-orbit interaction strength or an external magnetic field the zitterbewegung…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 P. Brusheim , H. Q. Xu

Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene heterostructure is strongly affected by the misorientation angle $\theta$ of the h-BN with respect to the graphene layers with different physical…

Lateral superlattices have attracted major interest as this may allow one to modify spectra of two dimensional electron systems and, ultimately, create materials with tailored electronic properties. Previously, it proved difficult to…

Graphene has opened new avenues of research in quantum transport, with potential applications for coherent electronics. Coherent transport depends sensitively on scattering from microscopic disorder present in graphene samples: electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M Westervelt

The self-consistent spatiotemporal evolution of drift wave (DW) radial envelope and zonal flow (ZF) amplitude is investigated in a slab model [1]. Stationary solution of the coupled partial differential equations in a simple limit yields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Zehua Guo , Liu Chen , Fulvio Zonca

We propose experiments to observe Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) and superfluidity of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) spatially indirect magnetoexcitons in bilayer graphene. The magnetic field $B$ is assumed strong. The energy spectrum of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Oleg L. Berman , Yurii E. Lozovik , Godfrey Gumbs

Bloch oscillations are a powerful tool to investigate spectra with Dirac points. By varying band parameters, Dirac points can be manipulated and merged at a topological transition towards a gapped phase. Under a constant force, a Fermi sea…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Lih-King Lim , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Gilles Montambaux

This article investigates some solutions of the time-dependent free Dirac equation. Visualizations of these solutions immediately reveal strange phenomena that are caused by the interference of positive- and negative-energy waves. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernd Thaller

In the absence of a magnetic field, scattered wavefunction inside a circular p-n junction in graphene exhibits an interference pattern with high intensity maximum located around the caustics. We investigate the wavefunctions in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

We have carried out a theoretical investigation of hot electron power loss $P$, involving electron-acoustic phonon interaction, as a function of twist angle $\theta$, electron temperature $T_e$ and electron density $n_s$ in twisted bilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-27 S. S. Kubakaddi

The topological phases of graphene with spin-orbit coupling, an exchange field, and a staggered-sublattice potential determine the properties of the edge states of the zigzag nanoribbon. In the presence of the Hubbard interaction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Ma Luo

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang