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The perfect transmission in graphene monolayer and the perfect reflection in Bernal graphene bilayer for electrons incident in the normal direction of a potential barrier are viewed as two incarnations of the Klein paradox. Here we show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Lin He

In this paper, we study Klein tunneling in random media. To this purpose, we simulate the propagation of a relativistic Gaussian wavepacket through a graphene sample with randomly distributed potential barriers (impurities). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 S. Palpacelli , M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

The paper discusses the Klein tunneling and Fabry-P\'erot resonances of charge carriers through a rectangular potential barrier in twisted bilayer graphene. Within the framework of the low-energy excitations, the transmission probability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi

Pseudospin plays a central role in many novel physical properties of graphene and other artificial systems which have pseudospins of 1/2. Here we show that in certain photonic crystals (PCs) exhibiting conical dispersions at k = 0, the…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-22 A. Fang , Z. Q. Zhang , Steven G. Louie , C. T. Chan

The absence of a band-gap in graphene limits the gate modulation of its electron conductivity, both in regular graphene as well as in PN junctions, where electrostatic barriers prove transparent to Klein tunneling. We demonstrate a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Redwan Sajjad , Avik Ghosh

Superconductivity can be induced in a normal material via the leakage of superconducting pairs of charge carriers from an adjacent superconductor. This so-called proximity effect is markedly influenced by graphene unique electronic…

Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of normally incident Dirac electrons across a potential barrier, has been widely studied in graphene and explored to design switches, albeit indirectly. We show that Klein tunneling maybe easier to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Yunkun Xie , Yaohua Tan , Avik W. Ghosh

Exact conditions for anti-Klein transmission zeros are found analytically with a 4-component continuum approach which includes trigonal warping. Anti-Klein tunneling occurs at oblique incidence on steps and barriers with soft and hard walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 P. A. Maksym , H. Aoki

Despite many similarities between electronics and optics, the hopping of the electron on a discrete atomic lattice gives rise to energy band nonparabolicity and anisotropy. The crucial influences of this effect on material properties and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

We study quantum tunneling through a potential barrier whose height fluctuates in time and is modeled by Gaussian white noise. We map the stochastic dynamics onto an equivalent time-independent Lindblad equation for the density matrix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kamal Azaidaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , A. Al Luhaibi , Michael Vogl

Klein tunneling and conductance for Dirac fermions in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene (ABC-TLG) through symmetric and asymmetric double potential barriers are investigated using the two and six-band continuum model. Numerical results for our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

We calculate the transmission coefficient for a particle crossing a potential barrier in monolayer graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in bilayer graphene. We show that in both the cases one can go from Klein tunneling regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 L. Dell'Anna , P. Majari , M. R. Setare

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

We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Naddami

Klein tunneling in gapless bilayer graphene, perfect reflection of electrons injecting normal to a pn junction, is expected to disappear in the presence of energy band gap induced by external gates. We theoretically show that the Klein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Sunghun Park , H. -S. Sim

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

We study the dynamics of semiclassical electrons in (gapped) graphene in two complementary limits, i.e. in the Klein tunneling and valley Hall effect regimes, by scattering wave packets off armchair step potentials and by exposing wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Christoph. M. Puetter , Satoru Konabe , Yasuhiro Tokura , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Kenji Shiraishi

The influence of a rectangular potential barrier on the quantum transport of fermions in silicene is explored. Specifically, analytical solutions are presented to derive transmission and reflection probabilities together with conductance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Sanae Zriouel , Ahmed Jellal

We develop an analytical mode-matching technique for the tight-binding model to describe electron transport across graphene P-N junctions. This method shares the simplicity of the conventional mode-matching technique for the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

Non-reciprocal systems have been shown to exhibit various interesting wave phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, which causes accumulation of modes at boundaries. Recent research on discrete systems showed that this effect can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Felix Langfeldt , Joe Tan , Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota