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Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath

The dynamic polarization for kekul\'e-patterned graphene is studied within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA). It is shown how the breaking of the valley degeneracy by the lattice modulation is manifested through the dielectric spectrum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Saúl A. Herrera , Gerardo G. Naumis

In this paper, we study the near-field radiative energy, linear-momentum, and angular-momentum transfer from a current-biased graphene to nanoparticles. The electric current through the graphene sheet induces nonequilibrium fluctuations,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-19 Huimin Zhu , Gaomin Tang , Lei Zhang , Jun Chen

We calculate the local current density in pristine armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with varying width, $N_\mathrm{C}$, employing a density-functional-theory-based ab initio transport formalism. We observe very pronounced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Jan Wilhelm , Michael Walz , Ferdinand Evers

Recent progress has enabled the controlled fabrication of domain walls (DWs) in graphene, which host topological kink states. Meanwhile, reliable techniques for constructing graphene-based Josephson junctions have been established. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Xia'an Du , Junjie Qi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

At half filling, the electronic structure of graphene can be modelled by a pair of free two-dimensional Dirac fermions. We explicitly demonstrate that in the presence of a geometrically induced gauge field, an everywhere-real Kekule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-18 Jiannis K. Pachos , Michael Stone , Kristan Temme

We observe conductivity oscillations with aperiodic spacing to only one side of the tunneling current in a dual-gated graphene field effect transistor with an n-p-n type potential barrier. The spacing and width of these oscillatoins were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Milan Begliarbekov , Onejae Sul , Nan Ai , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Stefan Strauf

We articulate the challenges and opportunities of unconventional devices using the photon like flow of electrons in graphene, such as Graphene Klein Tunnel (GKT) transistors. The underlying physics is the employment of momentum rather than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Mirza M. Elahi , K. M. Masum Habib , Ke Wang , Gil-Ho Lee , Philip Kim , Avik W. Ghosh

The effects of the electromagnetic (e.m.) electron-electron interactions in half-filled graphene are investigated in terms of a lattice gauge theory model. By using exact Renormalization Group methods and lattice Ward Identities, we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-03 Alessandro Giuliani , Vieri Mastropietro , Marcello Porta

Based on the tight-binding model calculations and photonic experimental visualization on graphene, we report the domain-wall-induced gapped topological kink states and topological corner states. In graphene, domain walls with gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Yuting Yang , Ziyuan Jia , Yijia Wu , Zhi-Hong Hang , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Controlling the properties of materials by driving them out of equilibrium is an exciting prospect that has only recently begun to be explored. In this paper we give a striking theoretical example of such materials design: a tunable gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Thomas Iadecola , David Campbell , Claudio Chamon , Chang-Yu Hou , Roman Jackiw , So-Young Pi , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

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

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

The remarkable electronic properties of graphene have fueled the vision of a graphene-based platform for lighter, faster and smarter electronics and computing applications. One of the challenges is to devise ways to tailor its electronic…

We investigate gated trilayer graphene partially devoid of outer layers and forming a system of two trilayers connected by a single layer of graphene. A difference in the stacking order of trilayers leads to the appearance of gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

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

Antiferromagnetic (AF) transitions of birefringent Dirac fermions created by a Y-shaped Kekul\'e distortion in graphene are investigated by the mean-field theory and the determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We show that the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Chenyue Wen , Wanpeng Han , Xukun Feng , Xingchuan Zhu , Weisheng Zhao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Shiping Feng , Huaiming Guo

Atomically thin two-dimensional materials such as graphene and hexagonal boron nitride have recently been found to exhibit appreciable permeability to thermal protons, making these materials emerging candidates for separation technologies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Igor Poltavsky , Limin Zheng , Majid Mortazavi , Alexandre Tkatchenko

The current flow along the boundary of graphene stripes in a perpendicular magnetic field is studied theoretically by the nonequilibrium Green's function method. In the case of specular reflections at the boundary, the Hall resistance shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Thomas Stegmann , Axel Lorke

We study time-dependent electron transport and quantum noise in a ballistic graphene field effect transistor driven by an ac gate potential. The non-linear response to the ac signal is computed through Floquet theory for scattering states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Yevgeniy Korniyenko , Oleksii Shevtsov , Tomas Lofwander