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We investigate thermoelectric transport in monolayer graphene across a finite complex barrier within a Landauer scattering framework. Solving the Dirac-Weyl problem exactly, we show that the imaginary part of the barrier renders the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Daniel A. Bonilla , Juan A. Cañas , J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , A. Martín-Ruiz

One of the key problems in valleytronics is to realize valley polarization. Ferrovalley (FV) semiconductor and half-valley-metal (HVM) have been proposed, which possess intrinsic spontaneous valley polarization. Here, we propose the concept…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-01 San-Dong Guo , Yu-Ling Tao , Zhuo-Yan Zhao , Bing Wang , Guangzhao Wang , Xiaotian Wang

We propose a new route to induce flat bands with a strong superconducting instability in graphene bilayers with heteroshear, where the 1D character of the moir\'e leads to stronger correlations than in twisted bilayer graphene. We adopt an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jose Gonzalez , Tobias Stauber

Valleytronics is a research field utilizing a valley degree of freedom of electrons for information processing and storage. A strong valley polarization is critical for realistic valleytronic applications. Here, we predict a tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Shu-Hui Zhang , Ding-Fu Shao , Zi-An Wang , Jin Yang , Wen Yang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Non-Hermitian physics is responsible for many of the counter-intuitive effects observed in optics research opening up new possibilities in sensing, polarization control and measurement. A hallmark of non-Hermitian matrices is the…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate can exhibit an anomalous Hall effect at 3/4 filling due to the spontaneous valley polarization in valley resolved moir\'e bands with opposite Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Xuzhe Ying , Mengxing Ye , Leon Balents

Valleytronics is rapidly emerging as an exciting area of basic and applied research. In two dimensional systems, valley polarisation can dramatically modify physical properties through electron-electron interactions as demonstrated by such…

Plasma photonic crystals designed in this paper are composed of gas discharge tubes to control the flow of electromagnetic waves. The band structures calculated by the finite element method are consistent with the experimental results in…

Valleytronics has emerged as a promising paradigm, enabling comprehensive control of the valley degree of freedom (DoF) for energy-efficient and high-speed information processing. However, backscattering-induced valley depolarization…

A population imbalance at different valleys of an electronic system lowers its effective rotational symmetry. We introduce a technique to measure such imbalance - a valley polarization - that exploits the unique fingerprints of this…

The interplay of massive electrons with spin-orbit coupling in bulk graphene results in a spin-valley dependent gap. Thus, a barrier with such properties can act as a filter, transmitting only opposite spins from opposite valleys. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 Marko M. Grujić , Milan Ž. Tadić , François M. Peeters

A spin valve represents a well-established device concept in magnetic memory technologies, whose functionality is determined by electron transmission being controlled by the relative alignment of magnetic moments of the two ferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-23 Kai Huang , Kartik Samanta , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Valley polarization (VP), an induced imbalance in the populations of a multi-valley electronic system, allows emission of second harmonic (SH) light even in centrosymmetric crystals such as graphene. Whereas in systems such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 F. Hipolito , Vitor M. Pereira

We theoretically analyze the nonlinear valley Nernst effect (NVNE) as the second-order response of temperature gradient through the semiclassical framework of electron dynamics. Our study shows that an intrinsic nonlinear pure valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ying-Li Wu , Jia-Liang Wan , Xiao-Qin Yu

Topologically protected plasmonic modes located inside topological bandgaps are attracting increasing attention, chiefly due to their robustness against disorder-induced backscattering. Here, we introduce a bilayer graphene metasurface that…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-01 Yupei Wang , Jian Wei You , Zhihao Lan , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Valley-contrasting Hall transport conventionally relies on the inversion symmetry breaking in two-dimensional systems, which greatly limits the selection range of valley materials. In particular, while monolayer transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Zhichao Zhou , Ruijing Fang , Zhen Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang , Jiayan Rong , Xiao Li

The valley Hall effect arises from valley contrasting Berry curvature and requires inversion symmetry breaking. Here, we propose a nonlinear mechanism to generate a valley Hall current in systems with both inversion and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Kamal Das , Koushik Ghorai , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

Coherent manipulation of binary degrees of freedom is at the heart of modern quantum technologies. Graphene offers two binary degrees: the electron spin and the valley. Efficient spin control has been demonstrated in many solid state…

Electrons in two-dimensional materials possess an additional quantum attribute, the valley pseudospin, labelled as $\mathbf{K}$ and $\mathbf{K}^{\prime}$ -- analogous to the spin up and spin down. The majority of research to achieve…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Navdeep Rana , Gopal Dixit

Nonreciprocity, which denotes the asymmetric or even unidirectional transmission of light, constitutes the cornerstone of modern photonic circuits. In the realm of photonic devices, it has been widely utilized in isolators, circulators and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Li Liang , Xiao Zhang , Chuan Wang , Jie Liu , Longzhen Fan , Chengpeng Liang , Liang Liang , Feifei Li , Qi Wu , Yin Poo