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We have investigated the electrical transport properties of Dirac electrons in a monolayer graphene sheet in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field that is modulated weakly and periodically along one direction.We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

We investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the transport properties of vertical devices made of two twisted graphene layers, which partially overlap each other. We find that because of the different orientations of the two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Jerome Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

Scattering of a 2D Dirac electrons on a rectangular matrix potential barrier is considered using the formalism of spinor transfer matrices. It is shown, in particular, that in the absence of the mass term, the Klein tunneling is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder , M. A. Khan , Michael N. Leuenberger

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

We generalize the scalable tight-binding model for graphene, which allows for efficient quantum transport simulations in the Dirac regime, to account for elastic strain. We show that the original scalable model with scaling factor $s$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ming-Hao Liu , Christophe De Beule , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Hsin-You Wu , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Denis Kochan , Klaus Richter

It is known that the excitations in graphene-like materials in external electromagnetic field are described by solutions of massless two-dimensional Dirac equation which includes both Hermitian off-diagonal matrix and scalar potentials. Up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Mikhail V. Ioffe , David N. Nishnianidze

The electrons found in Dirac materials are notorious for being difficult to manipulate due to the Klein phenomenon and absence of backscattering. Here we investigate how spatial modulations of the Fermi velocity in two-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Top-gated, few-layer graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) fabricated on thermally-decomposed semi-insulating 4H-SiC substrates are demonstrated. Physical vapor deposited SiO2 is used as the gate dielectric. A two-dimensional hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Q. Wu , P. D. Ye , M. A. Capano , Y. Xuan , Y. Sui , M. Qi , J. A. Cooper

The three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal is a new topological phase of matter, viewed as the 3D analogy of graphene with a linear dispersion in the 3D momentum space. Here, we report the angular dependent magnetotransport in…

When electrons are confined in a two dimensional (2D) system, typical quantum mechanical phenomena such as Landau quantization can be detected. Graphene systems, including the single atomic layer and few-layer stacked crystals, are ideal 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Long-jing Yin , Ke-ke Bai , Wen-xiao Wang , Si-Yu Li , Yu Zhang , Lin He

We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vit Jakubsky , Raul Valencia-Torres

We study transport in undoped graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential both within a simple continuum model and using numerical tight-binding calculations. The continuum model demonstrates that the conductivity of the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 P. Burset , A. Levy Yeyati , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

Using Chebyshev polynomials, we study the electronic transport properties of massless Dirac fermions in symmetrical graphene superlattice composed of three regions. Matching wavefunctions and using transfer matrix method, we explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Abdellatif Kamal , Ahmed Jellal

Wave propagation control by spatial modulation of velocity has a long history in optics and acoustics. We address velocity-modulation control of electron wave propagation in graphene and other two-dimensional Dirac-electron systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Arnaud Raoux , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. R. Hamilton , Rosario Fazio , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate the consequences of applying electric fields perpendicularly to thin films of topological semimetals. In particular, we consider Weyl and Dirac semimetals in a configuration such that their surface Fermi arcs lie on opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Yuriko Baba , Álvaro Díaz-Fernández , Elena Díaz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Rafael A. Molina

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions through gapped graphene through a magnetic barrier irradiated by a laser field oscillating in time. We use Floquet theory and the solution of Weber's differential equation to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

For electron optics in graphene, the propagation effect has so far been the only physical mechanism available. The resulting electron-optics-based components are large in size and operate at low temperatures to avoid violating the ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ruihuang Zhao , Pengcheng Wan , Ling Zhou , Di Huang , Haiqin Guo , Hao Xia , Junjie Du

Novel two-dimensional (2D) atomically flat materials, such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, exhibit unconventional Dirac electronic spectra. We propose to effectively engineer their interactions with cold atoms in…

We present the crystal structure, electronic structure, and transport properties of the material YbMnSb$_2$, a candidate system for the investigation of Dirac physics in the presence of magnetic order. Our measurements reveal that this…

Transmission of Dirac fermions through a chip of graphene under the effect of magnetic field and a time vibrating double barrier with frequency $w$ is investigated. Quantum interference within the oscillating barrier has an important effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Miloud Mekkaoui , El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli