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While graphene is a semi-metal, a recently synthesized hydrogenated graphene called graphane, is an insulator. We have probed the transformation of graphene upon hydrogenation to graphane within the framework of density functional theory.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 Prachi Chandrachud , Bhalchandra S Pujari , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Biplab Sanyal , D G Kanhere

This study delves into the magneto-electronic and magneto-optical properties of stacking-modulated bilayer graphene. By manipulating domain walls (DWs) across AB-BA domains periodically, we unveil oscillatory Landau subbands and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Chiun-Yan Lin , Da-We Weng , Chih-Wei Chiu , Godfrey Gumbs

We generate compact localized states in an electrical diamond lattice, comprised of only capacitors and inductors, via local driving near its flatband frequency. We compare experimental results to numerical simulations and find very good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Carys Chase-Mayoral , L. Q. English , Yeongjun Kim , Sanghoon Lee , Noah Lape , Alexei Andreanov , P. G. Kevrekidis , Sergej Flach

We extend a special kind of localized state trapped at the intersection due to the geometric confinement, first proposed in a three-terminal-opening T-shaped structure [Euro. Phys. Lett. {\bf 55}, 539 (2001)], into a ring geometry with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 F. Yang , M. W. Wu

The general covariance of the Dirac equation is exploited in order to explore the curvature effects appearing in the electronic properties of graphene. Two physical situations are then considered: the weak curvature regime, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Pavel Castro-Villarreal , R. Ruiz-Sánchez

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Graphene and its multilayers have attracted considerable interest owing to the fourfold spin and valley degeneracy of their charge carriers, which enables the formation of a rich variety of broken-symmetry states and raises the prospect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Benjamin Krauss , Dmitry Abanin , Bertrand. I. Halperin , Jurgen H. Smet , Amir Yacoby

Moir\'e systems featuring flat electronic bands exhibit a vast landscape of emergent exotic quantum states, making them one of the resourceful platforms in condensed matter physics in recent times. Tuning these systems via twist angle and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Jin Jiang , Qixuan Gao , Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Mario Di Luca , Emily Hajigeorgiou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

It has long been noticed that special lattices contain single-electron flat bands (FB) without any dispersion. Since the kinetic energy of electrons is quenched in the FB, this highly degenerate energy level becomes an ideal platform to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-16 Zheng Liu , Feng Liu , Yong-Shi Wu

Partial electron localization in a finite-size superlattice placed in an electric field is considered. The role of electric field in forming of quasilocalized states is investigated. A quantitative criterion for the degree of partial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 K. R. Vlasov , M. A. Pyataev , A. V. Shorokhov

Electrons in graphene are theoretically expected to retain spin states much longer than most materials, making graphene a promising platform for spintronics and quantum information technologies. Here, we use first-principles density-matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-17 Adela Habib , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The discovery of flat-bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has underscored the potential of moire engineering for correlated states, but such phases are notoriously difficult to realize and highly fragile against perturbations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yalan Wei , Shifang Li , Yuke Song , Chaoyu He

We investigate an effective model of proximity modified graphene (or symmetrylike materials) with broken time-reversal symmetry. We predict the appearance of quantum anomalous Hall phases by computing bulk band gap and Chern numbers for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Klaus Zollner , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

It is known that the appearance of Klein tunneling in graphene makes it hard to keep or localize electrons in a graphene-based quantum dot (GQD). However, a magnetic field can be used to temporarily confine an electron that is traveling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Mohammed El Azar , Ahmed Bouhlal , Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Ahmed Jellal

We consider a square lattice configuration of circular gate-defined quantum dots in an unbiased graphene sheet and calculate the electronic, particularly spectral properties of finite albeit actual sample sized systems by means of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Pieper , R. L. Heinisch , G. Wellein , H. Fehske

We describe the formation of superconducting states in graphene in the presence of pseudo-Landau levels induced by strain, when time reversal symmetry is preserved. We show that superconductivity in strained graphene is quantum critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-29 Bruno Uchoa , Yafis Barlas

We propose to experimentally explore the Haldane phase in spin-one XXZ antiferromagnetic chains using trapped ions. We show how to adiabatically prepare the ground states of the Haldane phase, demonstrate their robustness against sources of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 I. Cohen , P. Richerme , Z. -X. Gong , C. Monroe , A. Retzker

We study the electronic structure of graphene with a single substitutional vacancy using a combination of the density-functional, tight-binding, and impurity Green's function approaches. Density functional studies are performed with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 B. R. K. Nanda , M. Sherafati , Z. Popović , S. Satpathy

We theoretically demonstrate that an external magnetic field can be used to control quantum reflection of matter waves in graphene due to its extraordinary magneto-optical properties. We calculate the quantum reflection probabilities in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Marcius Silvestre , Tarik P. Cysne , Daniela Szilard , Felipe A. Pinheiro , Carlos Farina

We consider confinement of Dirac fermions in $AB$-stacked bilayer graphene by inhomogeneous on-site interactions, (pseudo-)magnetic field or inter-layer interaction. Working within the framework of four-band approximation, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Vít Jakubský , Kevin Zelaya