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We discuss valley current, which is carried by quasiparticles in graphene. We show that the valley current arises owing to a peculiar term in the electron-phonon collision integral that mixes the scalar and vector gauge-field-like vertices…

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We study the atomic collapse phenomenon in $K$ and $K'$ valley of gapped graphene. Bound states induced by Coulomb impurity in the gap turn into atomic collapse resonances as the charge increases beyond the supercritical charge $Z_c$. $Z_c$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Jing Wang , Xiaotai Wu , Wen-Sheng Zhao , Yuhua Cheng , Yue Hu , Francois M. Peeters

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

A potential step in a graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is shown to be an intrinsic source of intervalley scattering -- no matter how smooth the step is on the scale of the lattice constant a. The valleys are coupled by a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 A. R. Akhmerov , J. H. Bardarson , A. Rycerz , C. W. J. Beenakker

Modifying the hexagonal lattices of graphene enables the repositioning and merging of the Dirac cones which proves to be a key element in the use of these materials for alternative electronic applications such as valleytronics. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Saber Rostamzadeh , Mustafa Sarisaman

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene displays at different fillings of the four flat bands lying around the charge neutrality point a wealth of notable phases that include magnetic Chern insulators, whose magnetization is mostly of orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-07 Andrea Blason , Michele Fabrizio

Kondo physics and heavy-fermion behavior have been predicted and observed in moir\'e materials. The electric tunability of moir\'e materials allows an in-situ study of Kondo lattices' phase diagrams, which is not possible with their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Antonio L. R. Manesco

The conductance of graphene subject to a strong, tilted magnetic field exhibits a dramatic change from insulating to conducting behavior with tilt-angle, regarded as evidence for the transition from a canted antiferromagnetic (CAF) to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Pavel Tikhonov , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

Recent experimental findings and theoretical predictions suggest that nitrogen-doped CVD-grown graphene may give rise to electronic band gaps due to impurity distributions which favour segregation on a single sublattice. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Thomas Aktor , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

We describe an angularly asymmetric interface-scattering mechanism which allows to spatially separate the electrons in the two low-energy valleys of bilayer graphene. The effect occurs at electrostatically defined interfaces separating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Henning Schomerus

Recent discoveries in graphene bilayers revealed that when one of the layers is rotated, superconductivity emerges. We provide an explanation for this phenomenon . We find that due to the layer rotations, the spinors are modified in such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 D. Schmeltzer

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We present and experimentally study the effects of the photonic spin-orbit coupling on real space propagetion of polariton wavepackets in planar semiconductor microcavities and polaritonic analogs of graphene. In particular, we demonstrate…

Patterning graphene with a spatially-periodic potential provides a powerful means to modify its electronic properties. Dramatic effects have been demonstrated in twisted bilayers where coupling to the resulting moir\'e-superlattice yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yutao Li , Scott Dietrich , Carlos Forsythe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Pilkyung Moon , Cory R. Dean

The electronic structure of graphene on Cu(111) and Cu(100) single crystals is investigated using low energy electron microscopy, low energy electron diffraction and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. On both substrates the graphene…

Inspired by the recent experimental discovery of superconductivity emerging from a time-reversal symmetry-breaking normal state in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene, we here investigate superconducting instabilities in this system. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-13 Maine Christos , Pietro M. Bonetti , Mathias S. Scheurer

This work performs a numerical study of electron transport through the fundamental logic gate in valleytronics - a valley valve consisting of two or increasing number of valley filters. Various typical effects on the transport are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Jia-Huei Jiang , Ning-Yuan Lue , Feng-Wu Chen , Yu-Shu G. Wu

Valley pseudospin, the quantum degree of freedom characterizing the degenerate valleys in energy bands, is a distinct feature of two-dimensional Dirac materials. Similar to spin, the valley pseudospin is spanned by a time reversal pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Mengqiao Sui , Guorui Chen , Liguo Ma , Wenyu Shan , Dai Tian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaofeng Jin , Wang Yao , Di Xiao , Yuanbo Zhang

Real-world samples of graphene often exhibit various types of out-of-plane disorder -- ripples, wrinkles and folds -- introduced at the stage of growth and transfer processes. These complex out-of-plane defects resulting from the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev

Particular strain geometry in graphene could leads to a uniform pseudo-magnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nano-electronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained…

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