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We study the conductance of disordered graphene superlattices with short-range structural correlations. The system consists of electron- and hole-doped graphenes of various thicknesses, which fluctuate randomly around their mean value. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Abedpour , Ayoub Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

We consider the transmission of massless Dirac fermions through an array of short range scatterers which are modeled as randomly positioned $\delta$- function like potentials along the x-axis. We particularly discuss the interplay between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-07-19 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

In this review, we provide an account of the recent progress in understanding electronic transport in disordered graphene systems. Starting from a theoretical description that emphasizes the role played by band structure properties and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

A transfer matrix method is presented for solving the scattering problem for the quasi one-dimensional massless Dirac equation applied to graphene in the presence of an arbitrary inhomogeneous electric and perpendicular magnetic field. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Sameer Grover , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

We investigate electronic band gap and transport in Fibonacci quasi-periodic graphene superlattice. It is found that such structure can possess a zero-$\bar{k}$ gap which exists in all Fibonacci sequences. Different from Bragg gap,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Pei-Liang Zhao , Xi Chen

Using the transfer matrix technique, we investigate the propagation of electron through a two dimensional disordered sample. We find that the spatial distribution of electrons is homogeneous only in the limit of weak disorder (diffusive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-09-28 P. Markos

An analytic theory of electron transport in disordered graphene in a ballistic geometry is developed. We consider a sample of a large width W and analyze the evolution of the conductance, the shot noise, and the full statistics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-03 A. Schuessler , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

We study the transmission of Dirac fermions in graphene through a tilted barrier potential in the presence of a laser field of frequency $\omega$. By using Floquet theory, we solve the Dirac equation and then obtain the energy spectrum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal

The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Motivated by recent graphene transport experiments, we have undertaken a numerical study of the conductivity of disordered two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions. Our results reveal distinct differences between the cases of short-range and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-30 Kentaro Nomura , A. H. MacDonald

We develop an Effective Medium Theory to study the electrical transport properties of disordered graphene. The theory includes non-linear screening and exchange-correlation effects allowing us to consider experimentally relevant strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 Enrico Rossi , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

We study the transmission probability of Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our system made of two triangular potential barrier regions separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Electronic band gap and transport in quasi-periodic graphene superlattice of double-periodic sequence have been investigated. It is found that such quasi-periodic structure can possess a zero-averaged wave number (zero-$\bar{k}$) gap which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Qi-Biao Zhu

We have studied the peculiarities of electron transport in one-dimensional (1D) disordered chain at the presence of correlations between on-site interaction and tunneling integrals. In the considered models the disorder in host-lattice…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-01 V. Slavin , Y. Savin , M. Klimov , M. Kiyashko

We studied the transport properties of electrons in graphene as they are scattered by a double barrier potential in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We computed the transmission coefficient and Goos-H\"anchen like shifts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli