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The formation of a superlattice in graphene can serve as a way to modify its electronic bandstructure and thus to engineer its electronic transport properties. Recent experiments have discovered a Kekul\'e bond ordering in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Elias Andrade , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Mireles

Hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) provides an ideal substrate for supporting graphene devices to achieve fascinating transport properties, such as Klein tunneling, electron optics and other novel quantum transport phenomena. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Viet-Anh Tran , Viet-Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We introduce a generalized Hamiltonian describing not only all topological phases observed experimentally in Kekul\'e graphene (KekGr) but predicting also new ones. These phases show features like a quadratic band crossing point, valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Santiago Galván y García , Thomas Stegmann , Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo

We present a method for obtaining quantum transport properties in graphene that uniquely combines three crucial features: microscopic treatment of charge disorder, fully quantum mechanical analysis of transport, and the ability to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 E. Rossi , J. H. Bardarson , P. W. Brouwer , S. Das Sarma

Kekul\'e phases are Peierls-like lattice distortions in graphene that are predicted to host novel electronic states beyond graphene (1-8). Although the Kekul\'e phases are realized in graphene through introducing electron-electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-03 Mo-Han Zhang , Ya-Ning Ren , Qi Zheng , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Lin He

We investigate the electron transport through a graphene p-n junction under a perpendicular magnetic field. By using Landauar-Buttiker formalism combining with the non-equilibrium Green function method, the conductance is studied for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wen Long , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

This work investigates the Floquet dynamics of electrons and excitons (particle-hole pairs) in a Dirac material referred to as Kekul\'e-distorted graphene. Specifically, we examine the role played by a high frequency driving electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Sita Kandel , Godfrey Gumbs

Breaking the intrinsic chirality of quasiparticles in graphene enables the emergence of new and intriguing phases. One such paradigmatic example is the bond density wave, which leads to a Kekul\'{e}-ordered structure and underpins exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dominik Szczȩśniak

Recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments [K.P. Nuckolls et al., arXiv:2303.00024] have revealed the ubiquity of Kekul\'e charge-density wave order in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Most samples are moderately strained and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-06 Yves H. Kwan , Glenn Wagner , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran

A Kubo formalism is used to calculate the electronic and optical conductivity of a graphene superlattice with Y-shaped kekul\'e bond texture, similar to that visualized in recent experiments. We show that new conduction channels between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Saúl A. Herrera , Gerardo G. Naumis

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

In this article, we investigate the effect of next-to-the-nearest atom hopping on Klein tunnelling in graphene. An effective quantum dynamics equation is obtained based on an emergent generalized Dirac structure by analyzing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Naveed Ahmad Shah , Alonso Contreras-Astorga , François Fillion-Gourdeau , M. A. H Ahsan , Steve MacLean , Mir Faizal

Graphene deposited on top of a Copper(111) substrate may develop a Y-shaped Kekul\'e bond texture (Kekul\'e-Y), locking the momentum of its Dirac fermions with its valley degree of freedom. As a consequence, the valley degeneracy of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Alex Santacruz , Priscilla E. Iglesias , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Francisco Mireles

Electromagnetic dressing by a high-frequency field drastically modifies the electronic transport properties on Dirac systems. Here its effects on the energy spectrum of graphene with two possible phases of Kekul\'e distortion (namely, Kek-Y…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 M. A. Mojarro , V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos , Gerardo G. Naumis

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

While it has been one of the most important new physics discoveries in the last decade, the nature of superconductivity in the twisted graphene family remains an unsolved problem. Motivated by recent scanning tunneling experiments that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Ke Wang , K. Levin

We develop an analytical mode-matching technique for the tight-binding model to describe electron transport across graphene P-N junctions. This method shares the simplicity of the conventional mode-matching technique for the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

In this Ph.D. thesis a model for graphene in presence of quantized electromagnetic interactions is introduced. The zero and low temperature properties of the model are studied using rigorous renormalization group methods and lattice Ward…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-09 Marcello Porta

In graphene, a Kekul\'e-Y bond texture modifies the electronic band structure generating two concentric Dirac cones with different Fermi velocities lying in the {\Gamma}-point in reciprocal space. The energy dispersion results in different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Elias Andrade , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Gerardo G. Naumis

Electronic transport in a graphene-based ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic junction is investigated by means of Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formulism and the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. For the zigzag edge case, the results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jiang-chai Chen , Shu-guang Cheng , Shun-Qing Shen , Qing-feng Sun
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