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Graphene is a gapless semiconductor in which conduction and valence band wavefunctions differ only in the phase difference between their projections onto the two sublattices of the material's two-dimensional honeycomb crystal structure. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 Allan H. MacDonald , Jeil Jung , Fan Zhang

We investigate spin transport in diffusive graphene nanoribbons with both clean and rough zigzag edges, and long-range potential fluctuations. The long-range fields along the ribbon edges cause the local doping to come close to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Jan Bundesmann , Ming-Hao Liu , Inanc Adagideli , Klaus Richter

An interesting property of zigzag graphene nanoribbons is the presence of edge states which are extended along its borders but localized in the transverse direction. We show that because of this property, electron transport through an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 Gonzalo Usaj

A simple criterion is provided how the (anti-)localization properties of graphene are determined in the presence of inter-valley scattering, Kane-Mele topological mass term, and Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI). A set of (pseudo)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-25 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yoshio Kuramoto , Kentaro Nomura

In this article we develop an effective medium model to characterize the electron wave propagation in graphene based nanostructures with an electrostatic and magnetic vector potentials imposed on their surface. We use a numerical algorithm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 David E. Fernandes

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has recently emerged as a rich platform for studying correlation driven magnetic, topological and superconducting states. While most experimental efforts have focused on devices with N$\leq 9$ layers, the…

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

We investigate the effects of randomly distributed atomic defects on the magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges using an extended mean-field Hubbard model. For a balanced defect distribution among the sublattices of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 K. E. Çakmak , A. Altıntaş , A. D. Güçlü

We study the effect of disordered ripples on the conductivity of monolayer graphene flakes. We calculate the relaxation times and the Boltzmann conductivities associated with two mechanisms. First, we study the conductivity correction due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Rhonald Burgos , Jesus Warnes , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio Lewenkopf

The advent of few-layer graphenes has given rise to a new family of two-dimensional systems with emergent electronic properties governed by relativistic quantum mechanics. The multiple carbon sublattices endow the electronic wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 L. C. Campos , A. F. Young , K. Surakitbovorn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We present a study on the uniformity of the pseudomagnetic field in graphene as a function of the relative orientation between the graphene lattice and straining directions. For this, we strained a regular micron-sized graphene hexagon by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-17 G. J. Verbiest , S. Brinker , C. Stampfer

As a canonical response to the applied magnetic field, the electronic states of a metal are fundamentally reorganized into Landau levels. In Dirac metals, Landau levels can be expected without magnetic fields, provided that an inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Zheng Shi , Hai-Zhou Lu , Tianyu Liu

Very recently, the standard description of electrons in strained graphene has been completed by the explicit inclusion of the lattice deformation. Here, the effect of these lattice corrections is taken into account to find the mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 M. Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo G. Naumis

We study the dynamics of carriers in graphene subjected to an inhomogeneous magnetic field. For a magnetic field with an hyperbolic profile the corresponding Dirac equation can be analyzed within the formalism of supersymmetric quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Enrique Milpas , Manuel Torres , Gabriela Murguía

The stacking and bending of graphene are trivial but extremely powerful agents of control over graphene's manifold physics. By changing the twist angle, one can drive the system over a plethora of exotic states via strong electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jana Vejpravova , Barbara Pacakova , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Jing Kong , Martin Kalbac

The dispersion relation for magnetoplasmons in a planar superlattice with periodically alternating regions of gapless and gapped modications of graphene has been derived within the frame of the random-phase approximation. The contribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 P. V. Ratnikov

A graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges has a gapped magnetic ground state with an antiferromagnetic inter-edge superexchange interaction. We present a theory based on asymptotic properties of the Dirac-model ribbon wavefunction which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 J. Jung , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. H. MacDonald

We have performed a detailed investigation of the electrical properties of a graphene monolayer which is modulated by a weak one dimensional periodic potential in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The periodic modulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 R. Nasir , K. Sabeeh , M. Tahir

We theoretically investigate electron transport through corrugated graphene ribbons and show how the ribbon curvature leads to an electronic superlattice with a period set by the corrugation wave length. Transport through the ribbon depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isacsson , L. M. Jonsson , J. M. Kinaret , M. Jonson

A combination of experimental techniques, e.g. vector-MOKE magnetometry, Kerr microscopy and polarized neutron reflectometry, was applied to study the field induced evolution of the magnetization distribution over a periodic pattern of…