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The recently discovered "hat" aperiodic monotile mixes unreflected and reflected tiles in every tiling it admits, leaving open the question of whether a single shape can tile aperiodically using translations and rotations alone. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-01 David Smith , Joseph Samuel Myers , Craig S. Kaplan , Chaim Goodman-Strauss

Recently "the Hat" monotile was introduced into the family of aperiodic tilings and quasicrystals boasting physical properties lying at the boundary of ordered and disordered systems. Here we study the two-dimensional wave transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Valtýr Kári Daníelsson , Helgi Sigurðsson

In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-20 D. S. L. Abergel , V. Apalkov , J. Berashevich , K. Ziegler , Tapash Chakraborty

Aperiodic systems such as quasiperiodic systems exhibit unique properties different from periodic structures. In 2023, Smith et al. discovered a new aperiodic structure: a single-shaped tile that can only tile space aperiodically, known as…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yuto Moritake , Masato Takiguchi , Takuma Aihara , Masaya Notomi

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

The Spectre is an aperiodic monotile for the Euclidean plane that is truly chiral in the sense that it tiles the plane without any need for a reflected tile. The topological and dynamical properties of the Spectre tilings are very similar…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Michael Baake , Franz Gähler , Jan Mazáč , Lorenzo Sadun

We investigate the transmission properties of quasiperiodic or aperiodic structures based on graphene arranged according to the Cantor sequence. In particular, we have found self-similar behaviour in the transmission spectra, and most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 R. Rodríguez-González , I. Rodríguez-Vargas , D. S. Díaz-Guerrero , L. M. Gaggero-Sager

Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity and charge fractionalization. While twisted moire systems like twisted bilayer graphene have revealed such states, they remain complex to control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Elias Andrade , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

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

This paper concerns the asymmetric transport associated with a low-energy interface Dirac model of graphene-type materials subject to external magnetic and electric fields. We show that the relevant physical observable, an interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Solomon Quinn , Guillaume Bal

Spectral and transport properties of electrons in confined phosphorene systems are investigated in a five hopping parameter tight-binding model, using analytical and numerical techniques. The main emphasis is on the properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 B. Ostahie , A. Aldea

Electrons and holes in clean, charge-neutral graphene behave like a strongly coupled relativistic liquid. The thermo-electric transport properties of the interacting Dirac quasiparticles are rather special, being constrained by an emergent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Markus Mueller , Lars Fritz , Subir Sachdev , Joerg Schmalian

Optical properties of graphene are explored by using the generalized tight-binding model. The main features of spectral structures, the form, frequency, number and intensity, are greatly enriched by the complex relationship among the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Chiun-Yan Lin , Thi-Nga Do , Yao-Kung Huang , Ming-Fa Lin

We review recent work on superlattices in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We highlight the role of the quasiparticle chirality in generating new Dirac fermion modes with tunable anisotropic velocities in one dimensional (1D) superlattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

We investigate the spectral properties and dynamical features of a time-periodic PT-symmetric Hamiltonian on a one-dimensional tight-binding lattice. It is shown that a high-frequency modulation can drive the system under a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-06 Giuseppe Della Valle , Stefano Longhi

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

Application of secondary quantized self-consistent Dirac -- Hartree -- Fock approach to consider electronic properties of monolayer graphene with accounting of spin-polarized states allows to coherently explain experimental results on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 H. V. Grushevskaya , G. G. Krylov

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

We discuss the novel electronic properties of graphene under an external periodic scalar or vector potential, and the analytical and numerical methods used to investigate them. When graphene is subjected to a one-dimensional periodic scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 Cheol-Hwan Park , Liang Zheng Tan , Steven G. Louie
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