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The proposals for realizing exotic particles through coupling of quantum Hall effect to superconductivity involve spatially non-uniform magnetic fields. As a step toward that goal, we study, both theoretically and experimentally, a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Jonathan Schirmer , Ravi Kumar , Vivas Bagwe , Pratap Raychaudhuri , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , C. -X. Liu , Anindya Das , J. K. Jain

In the last few years, the fascinating properties of graphene have been thoroughly investigated. The existence of Dirac cones is the most important characteristic of the electronic band-structure of graphene. In this theoretical paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Rojas-Cuervo , K. M. Fonseca-Romero , R. R. Rey-González

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

We prove that the two-dimensional Schroedinger operator with a potential having the symmetry of a honeycomb structure has dispersion surfaces with conical singularities (Dirac points) at the vertices of its Brillouin zone. No assumptions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Charles L. Fefferman , Michael I. Weinstein

We propose a lattice model for the realization of exotic quartic semi-Dirac fermions, i.e. quasiparticles exhibiting a dispersion with quartic momentum dependence in a given direction, and a linear dependence in the perpendicular direction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Valeri N. Kotov

An idea is proposed for realizing a fully spin-polarized Dirac semimetal in frustrated itinerant magnets. We show that itinerant electrons on a triangular lattice exhibit the Dirac cone dispersion with half-metallic behavior in the presence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-10 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Yukitoshi Motome

Semi-Dirac semimetal is a material exhibiting linear band dispersion in one direction and quadratic band dispersion in the orthogonal direction and, therefore, hosts massless and massive fermions at the same point in the momentum space.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Chengyong Zhong , Yuanping Chen , Yuee Xie , Yi-Yang Sun , Shengbai Zhang

We present a theory of electronic transport in graphene in the presence of randomly placed adsorbates. Our analysis predicts a marked asymmetry of the conductivity about the Dirac point, as well as a negative weak-localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 John P. Robinson , Henning Schomerus , Laszlo Oroszlany , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The Dirac materials, such as graphene and three-dimensional topological insulators, have attracted much attention because they exhibit novel quantum phenomena with their low energy electrons governed by the relativistic Dirac equations. One…

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…

Spin-1/2 particles such as the electron are described by the Dirac equation, which allows for two spin eigenvalues (up or down) and two types of energy eigenvalues (positive or negative, corresponding to the electron and the positron). A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Matthew Mecklenburg , B. C. Regan

We investigate a generalized two-dimensional Weyl Hamiltonian, which may describe the low-energy properties of mechanically deformed graphene and of the organic compound alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3 under pressure. The associated dispersion has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-16 M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , G. Montambaux , F. Piechon

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We study quasiparticle dynamics in graphene exposed to a linearly-polarized electromagnetic wave of very large intensity. Low-energy transport in such system can be described by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 S. V. Syzranov , Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , F. Nori

We investigate the unusual features of the quantum transport in gapped monolayer graphene, which is in a pseudospin symmetry-broken state with a net perpendicular pseudomagnetization. Using these pseudoferromagnets (PFs), we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Artifical superlattice (SL) potentials have been employed extensively for band structure engineering of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electron gas in graphene. While such engineered electronic band structures can modify optical or plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets

We investigate the effect of an in-plane AC electric field coupled to electrons in the honeycomb lattice and show that it can be used to manipulate the Dirac points of the electronic structure. We find that the position of the Dirac points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Pierre Delplace , Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

The search for energy efficient materials is urged not only by the needs of modern electronics but also by emerging applications in neuromorphic computing and artificial intelligence. Currently, there exist two mechanisms for achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Vasil A. Saroka , Fanmiao Kong , Charles A. Downing , Renebeth B. Payod , Felix R. Fischer , Xiankai Sun , Lapo Bogani

We present a scheme to obtain anti-chiral edge states in an exciton-polariton honeycomb lattice with strip geometry, where the modes corresponding to both edges propagate in the same direction. Under resonant pumping the effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 S. Mandal , R. Ge , T. C. H. Liew

We theoretically explore nonresonantly pumped polaritonic graphene, a system consisting of a honeycomb lattice of micropillars in the regime of strong light-matter coupling. We demonstrate that, depending on the parameters of the structure,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 H. Sigurdsson , Y. S. Krivosenko , I. V. Iorsh , I. A. Shelykh , A. V. Nalitov