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Strain-induced pseudo magnetic fields offer the possibility of realizing zero magnetic field Quantum Hall effect in graphene, possibly up to room temperature, representing a promising avenue for lossless charge transport applications.…

We have measured the mechanical properties of few-layer graphene and graphite flakes that are suspended over circular holes. The spatial profile of the flake's spring constant is measured with an atomic force microscope. The bending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Menno Poot , Herre S. J. van der Zant

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We have developed a Hartree-Fock theory for electrons on a honeycomb lattice aiming to solve a long-standing problem of the Fermi velocity renormalization in graphene. Our model employs no fitting parameters (like an unknown band cutoff)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 T. Stauber , P. Parida , M. Trushin , M. V. Ulybyshev , D. L. Boyda , J. Schliemann

This study presents a fractional-order continuum mechanics approach that allows combining selected characteristics of nonlocal elasticity, typical of classical integral and gradient formulations, under a single frame-invariant framework.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Sansit Patnaik , Sai Sidhardh , Fabio Semperlotti

In this paper we present a detailed theoretical analysis of the cyclotron resonance in metals in the magnetic field directed along a normal to the surface of a sample. We show that this resonance occurs due to local geometry of the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya , Godfrey Gumbs

Zero indirect gaps in band models are typically viewed as unstable and achievable only through fine-tuning. Recent works, however, have revealed robust semimetallic phases in Hermitian systems where the indirect gap remains pinned at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 S Rahul , Giandomenico Palumbo

We prescribe general rules to predict the existence of edge states and zero-energy flat bands in graphene nanoribbons and graphene edges of arbitrary shape. No calculations are needed. For the so-called {\it{minimal}} edges, the projection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 W. Jaskolski , A. Ayuela , M. Pelc , H. Santos , L. Chico

Flat bands are of significant interest due to their potential for energy confinement and their ability to enable strongly correlated physics. Incorporating topology into flatband systems further enhances flatband mode robustness against…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yongsheng Liang , Jingyan Zhan , Shiqi Xia , Daohong Song , Zhigang Chen

Consider a plane monochromatic wave incident on a semi-infinite periodic structure. What happens if the normal component of the transmitted wave group velocity vanishes? At first sight, zero normal component of the transmitted wave group…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Figotin , I. Vitebskiy

Recent spectroscopic measurements in a number of strongly correlated metals that exhibit non-Fermi liquid like properties have observed evidence of anomalous frequency and momentum-dependent charge-density fluctuations. Specifically, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-31 Xuepeng Wang , Debanjan Chowdhury

We investigate the properties of magnon edge states in a ferromagnetic honeycomb lattice with armchair boundaries. In contrast with fermionic graphene, we find novel edge states due to the missing bonds along the boundary sites. After…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Pierre A. Pantaleón , Yang Xian

Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics. However, graphene does not have an energy band-gap, which presents a serious hurdle for its applications in digital logic gates. The efforts to induce a band-gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Guanxiong Liu , Sonia Ahsan , Alexander G. Khitun , Roger K. Lake , Alexander A. Balandin

The nonlinear frequencies of pre-stressed graphene-based structures, such as flat graphene sheets and carbon nanotubes, are calculated. These structures are modeled with a nonlinear hyperelastic shell model. The model is calibrated with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Reza Ghaffari , Roger A. Sauer

One-dimensional (1D) graphene superlattices have been predicted to exhibit zero-energy modes a decade ago, but an experimental proof has remained missing. Motivated by a recent experiment that could possibly shed light on this, here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Wun-Hao Kang , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

Certain lattice wave systems in translationally invariant settings have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat or independent of momentum in the tight binding approximation, arising from either internal symmetries or fine-tuned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Daniel Leykam , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach

We carried out measurements on nanoelectromechanical systems based on multilayer graphene sheets suspended over trenches in silicon oxide. The motion of the suspended sheets was electrostatically driven at resonance using applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Garcia-Sanchez , A. M. van der Zande , A. San Paulo , B. Lassagne , P. L. McEuen , A. Bachtold

The regularity of earthquakes, their destructive power, and the nuisance of ground vibration in urban environments, all motivate designs of defence structures to lessen the impact of seismic and ground vibration waves on buildings. Low…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Y. Achaoui , T. Antonakakis , S. Brule , R. V. Craster , S. Enoch , S. Guenneau

Kekul\'e-O order in graphene, which has recently been realized experimentally, induces Dirac electron masses on the order of $m \sim 100 \text{meV}$. We show that twisted bilayer graphene in which one or both layers have Kekul\'e-O order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Michael G. Scheer , Biao Lian

Graphene is intrinsically non-flat and corrugates randomly. Since the corrugating physics of atomically-thin graphene is strongly tied to its electronics properties, randomly corrugating morphology of graphene poses significant challenge to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Teng Li