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We present a detailed theoretical investigation on the electronic transport properties of $n$-type monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) at low temperature in the presence of proximity-induced interactions such as Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 J. Liu , W. Xu , Y. M. Xiao , L. Ding , H. W. Li , B. Van Duppen , M. V. Milošević , F. M. Peeters

We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

As a strongly spin-orbit coupled metallic model with ferromagnetism, we have considered an extended Stoner model to the relativistic regime, named Dirac ferromagnet in three dimensions. In the previous paper~[Phys. Rev. B 90, 214418…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Junji Fujimoto

The aim of this habilitation thesis is to present recent results, obtained during the period 2012-2017, related to interaction effects in condensed matter physics systems such as planar Dirac liquids, e.g., graphene and graphene-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 S. Teber

We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

We use three dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (3D--TDSE) to calculate angular electron momentum distributions and photoelectron spectra of atoms driven by spatially inhomogeneous fields. An example for such inhomogeneous…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 M. F. Ciappina , J. A. Pérez-Hernández , T. Shaaran , L. Roso , M. Lewenstein

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) generates a direct current photocurrent under uniform irradiation and is a nonlinear optical effect traditionally studied in non-centrosymmetric materials. The two main origins of BPVE are the shift and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Ying-Ming Xie , Naoto Nagaosa

We study valley-dependent spin transport theoretically in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides in which a variety of spin and valley physics are expected because of spin-valley coupling. The results show that the spins are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Yuya Ominato , Junji Fujimoto , Mamoru Matsuo

Transverse electron transport in magnetic materials - manifested in effects such as the anomalous Hall and Nernst effects - holds promise for spintronic and thermoelectric applications. While recent advances have focused on enhancing such…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Sang J. Park , Hojun Lee , Jongjun M. Lee , Jangwoo Ha , Hyun-Woo Lee , Hyungyu Jin

We present a kinetic equation approach to investigate dc transport properties of graphene in the diffusive regime considering long-range electron-impurity scattering. In our study, the effects of interband correlation (or polarization) on…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei , Norman J. M. Horing

We introduce a new mechanism that produces a Hall-like response in time-reversal-invariant materials, driven entirely by geometric effects. Specifically, we demonstrate that a tilted potential interface causes electron wave packets to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ronika Sarkar , Arka Bandyopadhyay , Awadhesh Narayan , Diptiman Sen

Unusually large spontaneous and piezoelectric fields in the III-V nitrides have led to the making of an entirely new class of two-dimensional electron gas. Fluctuation from a perfectly periodic binary structure in highly polar semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Debdeep Jena , Arthur. C. Gossard , Umesh. K. Mishra

Electron transport in thin metallic wires and films is strongly influenced by the quality of their surface. Weak localization and magnetoconductivity are also sensitive to the electron scattering at the edges of the sample. We study weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 E. Khalaf , P. M. Ostrovsky

Nonreciprocal (NR) charge transport in quantum materials has attracted enormous interest since it offers an avenue to investigate quantum symmetry related physics and holds many prospective applications such as rectification and…

Orbital Hall effect (OHE) is the phenomenon of transverse flow of orbital moment in presence of an applied electric field. Solids with broken inversion symmetry are expected to exhibit a strong OHE due to the presence of an intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Sayantika Bhowal , S. Satpathy

The diffusion of photo-generated holes is studied in a high-mobility mesoscopic GaAs\ channel where electrons exhibit hydrodynamic properties. It is shown that the injection of holes into such an electron system leads to the formation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Yu. A. Pusep , M. D. Teodoro , V. Laurindo , E. R. Cardozo de Oliveira , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

We study the electronic transport in the lowest Landau level of disordered two-dimensional semimetals placed in a homogeneous perpendicular magnetic field. The material system is modeled by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang Hamiltonian, which has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Andreas Sinner , Gregor Tkachov

We show that oblique propagation of electrons in crystals of Ge and Si, where the electron velocity does not follow the electric field even on average, can be explained using standard anisotropic theory for indirect gap semiconductors.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-09 B. Cabrera , M. Pyle , R. Moffatt , K. Sundqvist , B. Sadoulet

We show that interlayer charge transfer in 2D materials can be driven by an in-plane electric field, giving rise to electrical multipole generation in linear and second order of in-plane field. The linear and nonlinear effects have quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Huiyuan Zheng , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao