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In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

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The electronic tunneling properties of the two stable forms of trilayer graphene (TLG), rhombohedral ABC and Bernal ABA, are examined for pn and pnp junctions as realized by using a single gate (SG) or a double gate (DG). For the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Van Duppen , S. H. R. Sena , F. M. Peeters

In the framework of the non-local dielectric theory the static non-local self-energy of an electron near an ultra-thin polarizable layer has been calculated and applied to study image-states near free-standing graphene. The corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 P. L. de Andres , P. M. Echenique , A. Rivacoba

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

We consider the low-energy electronic properties of graphene cones in the presence of a global Fries-Kekul\'e Peierls distortion. Such cones occur in fullerenes as the geometric response to the disclination associated with pentagon rings.…

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We determine the optical properties of gated bilayer graphene quantum dots with trigonal warping (TW) of single-particle energy spectra. The lateral structure of metallic gates confines electrons and holes in a quantum dot (QD)…

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Free electron like image potential states are observed in scanning tunneling spectroscopy on graphene quantum dots on Ir(111) acting as potential wells. The spectrum strongly depends on the size of the nanostructure as well as on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Fabian Craes , Sven Runte , Jürgen Klinkhammer , Marko Kralj , Thomas Michely , Carsten Busse

Spin splitting of the energy spectrum of single-layer graphene on Au/Ni(111) substrate has been recently reported. I show that eigenstates of spin-orbit coupled graphene are polarized in-plane and perpendicular to electron momentum $\bf k$;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Emmanuel I. Rashba

Coupled electron-hole states are realized in a system consisting of a combination of an electrostatic potential barrier and ring-shaped potential well, which resembles a circular dipole. A perpendicular magnetic field induces confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 R. Van Pottelberge , F. M. Peeters

Based on the tight-binding model calculations and photonic experimental visualization on graphene, we report the domain-wall-induced gapped topological kink states and topological corner states. In graphene, domain walls with gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Yuting Yang , Ziyuan Jia , Yijia Wu , Zhi-Hong Hang , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

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…

The covariant Klein-Gordon equation requires twice the boundary conditions of the Schrodinger equation and does not have an accepted single-particle interpretation. Instead of interpreting its solution as a probability wave determined by an…

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We present a theory of quantum-coherent transport through a lateral p-n-p structure in graphene, which fully accounts for the interference of forward and backward scattering on the p-n interfaces. The backreflection amplitude changes sign…

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General physical conditions for the occurrence of photonic Klein tunneling are studied, where (controlled) spontaneous emission from the devices considered plays a key role. The specific example of a simple dielectric slab bounded by two…

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Breaking inversion symmetry in chiral graphene systems, \textit{e.g.}, by applying a perpendicular electric field in chirally-stacked rhombohedral multilayer graphene or by introducing staggered sublattice potentials in monolayer graphene,…

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We theoretically investigate the spectrum of a single electron double quantum dot, defined by top gates in a graphene with a substrate induced gap. We examine the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the spectrum of localized states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Martin Raith , Christian Ertler , Peter Stano , Michael Wimmer , Jaroslav Fabian

We study graphene with an adsorbed spin texture, where the localized spins create a periodic magnetic flux. The latter produces gaps in the graphene spectrum and breaks the valley symmetry. The resulting effective electronic model, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-31 Antonio Hill , Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

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

Landau level bending near the edge of graphene, described using 2d Dirac equation, provides a microscopic framework for understanding the quantum Hall Effect (QHE) in this material. We review properties of the QHE edge states in graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-13 Dmitry A. Abanin , Patrick A. Lee , Leonid S. Levitov

The D-dimensional Klein-Gordon (KG) wave equation with unequal scalar and time-like vector Cornell interactions is solved by the Laplace transform method. In fact, we obtained the bound state energy eigenvalues of the spinless relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 F. Tajik , Z. Sharifi , M. Eshghi , M. Hamzavi , M. Bigdeli , S. M. Ikhdair