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We develop a hydrodynamic description of transport properties in graphene-based systems which we derive from the quantum kinetic equation. In the interaction-dominated regime, the collinear scattering singularity in the collision integral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov , M. Schütt , A. D. Mirlin

We study quantum transport and scattering of massless Dirac fermions by spatially localized static magnetic fields. The employed model describes in a unified manner the effects of orbital magnetic fields, Zeeman and exchange fields in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Zazunov , A. Kundu , A. Hütten , R. Egger

We show that the physics of deformation in $\alpha$-, $\beta$-, and $6,6,12$-graphyne is, despite their significantly more complex lattice structures, remarkably close to that of graphene, with inhomogeneously strained graphyne described at…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 R. Gupta , S. Maisel , F. Rost , D. Weckbecker , M. Fleischmann , H. Soni , S. Sharma , A. Görling , S. Shallcross

Single-layer graphenes subject to periodic lateral strains are artificial crystals that can support boundary spectra with an intrinsic polarity. These are analyzed by comparing the effects of periodic magnetic fields and strain-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

The analysis of the electronic properties of strained or lattice deformed graphene combines ideas from classical condensed matter physics, soft matter, and geometrical aspects of quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spaces. Recent…

The discovery of correlated phases in twisted moir\'e superlattices accelerated the search for low-dimensional materials with exotic properties. A promising approach uses engineered substrates to strain the material. However, designing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Md Tareq Mahmud , Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

In strained graphene, lattice deformation can create pseudo-magnetic fields and result in zero-field Landau level-like quantization. In the presence of an external magnetic field, valley-polarized Landau levels are predicted to be observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Si-Yu Li , Ke-Ke Bai , Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wen-Xiao Wang , Lin He

Monolayer graphene at neutrality in the quantum Hall regime has many competing ground states with various types of ordering. The outcome of this competition is modified by the presence of the sample boundaries. In this paper we use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-13 Angelika Knothe , Thierry Jolicoeur

The electronic properties of a triaxially strained hexagonal graphene flake with either armchair or zig-zag edges are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations and tight-binding calculations. We found that: i) the pseudo-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Neek-Amal , L. Covaci , Kh. Shakouri , F. M. Peeters

Networks of graphene-based topological domain walls function as nano-scale interferometers of zero-line modes, with magnetic field and(or) scalar potential as the controlling parameters. In the absence of externally applied magnetic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ma Luo

Flat electronic bands with tunable structures offer opportunities for the exploitation and manipulation of exotic interacting quantum states. Here, we present a controllable route to construct easily tunable flat bands in folded graphene,…

We show that strained or deformed honeycomb lattices are promising platforms to realize fractional topological quantum states in the absence of any magnetic field. The strained induced pseudo magnetic fields are oppositely oriented in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-04 P. Ghaemi , J. Cayssol , D. N. Sheng , A. Vishwanath

Graphene is one of the stiffest known materials, with a Young's modulus of 1 TPa, making it an ideal candidate for use as a reinforcement in high-performance composites. However, being a one-atom thick crystalline material, graphene poses…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-13 L. Gong , I. A. Kinloch , R. J. Young , I. Riaz , R. Jalil , K. S. Novoselov

We construct a two-channel scattering model for the triangular network of valley Hall states in interlayer-biased minimally twisted bilayer graphene from symmetry arguments and investigate electronic transport in a four-terminal setup. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Christophe De Beule , Fernando Dominguez , Patrik Recher

In this paper, we investigate the two competing effects of strains and magnetic fields in single-layer graphene to explore its impact on various phenomena of quantum field theory, such as induced charge density, magnetic catalysis, symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 J. A. Sánchez-Monroy , C. J. Quimbay

When smooth, zero-on-average, periodic magnetic and electric fields are applied to a carbon mono-layer (graphene), a gap between the valence and conduction band is introduced. Here this gapped state is studied analytically. It is found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 I. Snyman

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

Lattice deformations in graphene couple to the low-energy electronic degrees of freedom as effective scalar and gauge fields. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that the optical component of the displacement field, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Christophe De Beule , Robin Smeyers , Wilson Nieto Luna , E. J. Mele , Lucian Covaci

We show that the optical excitation of graphene with polarized light leads to the pure valley current where carriers in the valleys counterflow. The current in each valley originates from asymmetry of optical transitions and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko , M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

We evaluate the optical reflectivity for a uniaxially strained graphene single layer between a SiO2 substrate and air. A tight binding model for the band dispersion of graphene is employed. As a function of the strain modulus and direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci