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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 put forward a concept to create highly collimated, non-dispersive electron beams in pseudo-relativistic Dirac materials such as graphene or topological insulator surfaces. Combining negative refraction and Klein collimation at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Ming-Hao Liu , Cosimo Gorini , Klaus Richter

Recent successes in manufacturing of atomically thin graphite samples (graphene) have stimulated intense experimental and theoretical activity. The key feature of graphene is the massless Dirac type of low-energy electron excitations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

Understanding the nature of superconductivity in magic-angle graphene remains challenging. A key difficulty lies in discerning the different energy scales in this strongly interacting system, particularly the superconducting gap. Here, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-21 Jeong Min Park , Shuwen Sun , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

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

We study transmission in a system consisting of a curved graphene surface as an arc (ripple) of circle connected to two flat graphene sheets on the left and right sides. We introduce a mass term in the curved part and study the effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Jaouad El-hassouny , Ahmed Jellal , El Houssine Atmania

A new transport regime of photon in two-dimensional photonic crystal near the Dirac point has been demonstrated by exact numerical simulation. In this regime, the conductance of photon is inversely proportional to the thickness of sample,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangdong Zhang

We study the interplay of Klein tunneling (= interband tunneling) between n-doped and p-doped regions in graphene and Andreev reflection (= electron-hole conversion) at a superconducting electrode. The tunneling conductance of an n-p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-10 A. Ossipov , M. Titov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

We review recent advances in Klein and anti-Klein tunneling in one- and two-dimensional materials. Using a general tight-binding framework applied to multiple periodic systems, we establish the criteria for the emergence of Klein tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Guillermo Monsivais , Vít Jakubský

We show that under compressive uniaxial deformation of the three-band $\alpha-T_3$ lattice, the Dirac cones move toward each other, merge, and a gap opens, while the flat band remains unchanged. Consequently, the low-energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 L. Mandhour , F. Bouhadida

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a graphene sheet by introducing a potential barrier in a region of width $D$ exposed to laser field. This sheet is placed on a boron nitride/ferromagnetic substrate such as cobalt or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Rachid El Aitouni , Ahmed Jellal , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

We investigate the scattering of a wave packet describing low-energy electrons in graphene by a time-dependent finite step potential barrier. Our results demonstrate that, after Klein tunneling through the barrier, the electron acquires an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Andrey Chaves , D. R. da Costa , G. O. de Sousa , J. M. Pereira , G. A. Farias

The coupling of charge carrier motion and pseudospin via chirality for massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene has generated dramatic consequences, such as the unusual quantum Hall effect and Klein tunneling. In bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Kyunghoon Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Yun Suk Eo , Cagliyan Kurdak , Zhaohui Zhong

We figure out the famous Klein's paradox arising from the reflection problem when a Dirac particle encounters a step potential with infinite width. The key is to piecewise solve Dirac equation in such a way that in the region where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Huai-Yu Wang

We show that space-time modulation of electromagnetic potentials enables Klein tunneling far below the static threshold. The derived kinematics reveal oblique transitions that can connect opposite-energy continua without requiring their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Furkan Ok , Amir Bahrami , Christophe Caloz

Using a recently developed formalism of quantization of radiation in the presence of absorbing dielectric bodies, the problem of photon tunneling through absorbing barriers is studied. The multilayer barriers are described in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Toralf Gruner , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

Trilayer graphene {(TLG)} consists of three layers of graphene arranged in a particular stacking order. In the case of ABC-ABA-ABC stacking, the layers are arranged in an A-B-C sequence, followed by an A-B-A sequence, and again an A-B-C…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Ahmed Jellal

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi