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We present electronic transport measurements through short and narrow (30x30 nm) single layer graphene constrictions on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. While the general observation of Coulomb-blockade is compatible with earlier work,…

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Harnessing the wave-nature of charge carriers in solid state devices, electron optics investigates and exploits coherent phenomena, in analogy with optics and photonics. Typically, this requires complex electronic devices leveraging…

Using a continuum model, we obtain qualitative results that imply charge localization around negative curvature disclinations (i.e. rings with more than 6 Carbon atoms) in a graphite sheet. Conversely, it is found that positive curvature…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Furtado , Fernando Moraes

We study the non-linear electromagnetic response of graphene taking into account the self-consistent-field effects. Response of the system to a strong pulse excitation is calculated. It is shown that radiative decay in graphene differs from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-20 S. A. Mikhailov

We calculate the quasiparticle properties of chiral two-dimensional Dirac electrons in graphene within the Landau Fermi Liquid scheme based on $GW$ approximation in the presence of disorder. Disorder effects due to charged impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Qaiumzadeh , N. Arabchi , R. Asgari

The $\pi$-electronic structure of graphene in the presence of a modulated electric potential is investigated by the tight-binding model. The low-energy electronic properties are strongly affected by the period and field strength. Such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Ho , Y. H. Chiu , S. J. Tsai , M. F. Lin

This is a status report about the ongoing work on the realization of quantum field theory on curved graphene spacetimes that uses Weyl symmetry. The programme is actively pursued from many different perspectives. Here we point to what has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-02 Alfredo Iorio

We fabricate a graphene p-n-p heterojunction and exploit the coherence of weakly-confined Dirac quasiparticles to resolve the underlying scattering potential using low temperature scanning gate microscopy. The tip-induced perturbation to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 E. D. Herbschleb , R. K. Puddy , P. Marconcini , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , M. Macucci , C. G. Smith , M. R. Connolly

In view of the observed flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies and motivated by the simple fact that within newtonian gravity a stationary axisymmetric mass distribution or dark matter vortex of finite extent readily displays a somewhat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-09 Jan Govaerts

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We study the Hartree-Fock approximation of graphene in infinite volume, with instantaneous Coulomb interactions. First we construct its translation-invariant ground state and we recover the well-known fact that, due to the exchange term,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Christian Hainzl , Mathieu Lewin , Christof Sparber

Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function formalism, we investigate the local, non-equilibrium charge transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). In particular, we demonstrate that the spatial current patterns associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Joel Mabillard , Tankut Can , Dirk K. Morr

We put forward a theory of the weak localization in two dimensional graphene layers which explains experimentally observable transition between positive and negative magnetoresistance. Calculations are performed for the whole range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 M. O. Nestoklon , N. S. Averkiev

Exact analytic solutions for an electron in graphene interacting with external complex magnetic fields are found. The eigenvalue problem for the non-hermitian Dirac-Weyl Hamiltonian leads to a pair of intertwined Schr{\"o}dinger equations,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 DJ Fernández , JD García-Muñoz

The spatial modulation of the Fermi velocity for gapless Dirac electrons in quantum materials is mathematically equivalent to the problem of massless fermions on a certain class of curved spacetime manifolds. We study null geodesic lensing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Seth M. Davis , Matthew S. Foster

In this work we study theoretically the electronic properties of a sheet of graphene grown on a periodic heterostructure substrate. We write an effective Dirac equation, which includes a dependence of both the band gap and the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-12 Jonas R. F. Lima , F. Moraes

We model the low energy dynamics of graphene in the continuum in terms of a version of Reduced Quantum Electrodynamics restricting fermions to a (2+1)-dimensional brane, whilst photons remain within the (3+1)-dimensional bulk. For charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Saúl Hernández-Ortiz , David Valenzuela , Alfredo Raya , Saúl Sánchez-Madrigal

The low energy continuum limit of graphene is effectively known to be modeled using Dirac equation in (2+1) dimensions. We consider the possibility of using modulated high frequency periodic driving of a two-dimension system (optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Tridev Mishra , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

In this paper we analyze the effects of nonlocality on the optical properties of a system consisting of a thin metallic film separated from a graphene sheet by a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer. We show that nonlocal effects in the…

Graphene, with its quantum Hall topological (Chern) number reflecting the massless Dirac particle, is shown to harbor yet another topological quantum number. This is obtained by combining Streda's general formula for the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-30 Hideo Aoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai