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We study conductance fluctuations (CF) and the sensitivity of the conductance to the motion of a single scatterer in two-dimensional massless Dirac systems. Our extensive numerical study finds limits to the predicted universal value of CF.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Mario F. Borunda , Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

We report on infrared (IR) nanoscopy of 2D plasmon excitations of Dirac fermions in graphene. This is achieved by confining mid-IR radiation at the apex of a nanoscale tip: an approach yielding two orders of magnitude increase in the value…

The charge susceptibility of twisted bilayer graphene is investigated in the Dirac cone, respectively random-phase approximation. For small enough twist angles $\theta\lesssim 2^\circ$ we find weakly Landau damped interband plasmons, i.~e.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 T. Stauber , H. Kohler

Realization of conically linear dispersion, termed as Dirac cones, has recently opened up exciting opportunities for high-performance devices that make use of the peculiar transport properties of the massless carriers. A good example of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-21 Chia-Hui Lin , Wei Ku

We present quantum-mechanical density-matrix formalism for calculating the nonlinear optical response of magnetized graphene, valid for arbitrarily strong magnetic and optical fields. We show that magnetized graphene possesses by far the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

For electron optics in graphene, the propagation effect has so far been the only physical mechanism available. The resulting electron-optics-based components are large in size and operate at low temperatures to avoid violating the ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ruihuang Zhao , Pengcheng Wan , Ling Zhou , Di Huang , Haiqin Guo , Hao Xia , Junjie Du

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

The so-called spin-orbit proximity effect experimentally realized in graphene (G) on several different heavy metal surfaces opens a new perspective to engineer the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for new generation spintronics devices. Here, via…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-10 Jagoda Slawinska , Jorge I. Cerdá

We consider resonant scatterers with large scattering cross-sections in graphene that are produced by a gated disk or a vacancy, and show that a gated ring can be engineered to produce an efficient electron cloak. We also demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Diego Oliver , Jose H. Garcia , Tatiana G. Rappoport , N. M. R. Peres , Felipe A. Pinheiro

We investigate quantum sensing of rotation with a multi-atom Sagnac interferometer and present multi-partite entangled states to enhance the sensitivity of rotation frequency. For studying the sensitivity, we first present a Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Fei Yao , Yanming Che , Yuguo Su , Hongbin Liang , Jiancheng Pei , Xiaoguang Wang

Van der Waals structures formed by aligning monolayer graphene with insulating layers of hexagonal boron nitride exhibit a moir\'e superlattice that is expected to break sublattice symmetry. Despite an energy gap of several tens of…

We explore the gapped graphene structure in the two-dimensional plane in the presence of the Rosen-Morse potential and an external uniform magnetic field. In order to describe the corresponding structure, we consider the propagation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 A. Kalani , Alireza Amani , M. A. Ramzanpour

Optical phase measurements play a key role in the detection of macroscopic parameters such as position, velocity, and displacement. They also permit to qualify the microscopic properties of photonic waveguides such as polarization mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Romain Dalidet , Laurent Labonté , Gregory Sauder , Sébastien Tanzilli , Anthony Martin

The greater confinement of light that is possible in photonic crystal fibres leads to a greater effective nonlin- earity, which promises to yield greater quantum squeezing than is possible in standard optical fibre. However, experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Morgan J. Tacey , Joel F. Corney

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge

We study above-barrier scattering of Dirac electrons by a smooth electrostatic potential combined with a coordinate-dependent mass in graphene. We assume that the potential and mass are sufficiently smooth, so that we can define a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 K. J. A. Reijnders , D. S. Minenkov , M. I. Katsnelson , S. Yu. Dobrokhotov

This work examines the effect of disclinations on the scattering of quasipaticles in graphene with the presence of a topological defect. Using the tight-binding method, the electronic properties of graphene with disclination are described,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 M. J. Bueno , G. Q. Garcia , A. M. de M. Carvalho , C. Furtado

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

Top-gated, few-layer graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) fabricated on thermally-decomposed semi-insulating 4H-SiC substrates are demonstrated. Physical vapor deposited SiO2 is used as the gate dielectric. A two-dimensional hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Q. Wu , P. D. Ye , M. A. Capano , Y. Xuan , Y. Sui , M. Qi , J. A. Cooper