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The shortcomings of mono-component systems, e.g., the gapless nature of graphene, the lack of air-stability in phosphorene, etc. have drawn great attention toward stacked materials expected to show interesting electronic and optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Maryam Mahdavifar , Sima Shekarforoush , Farhad Khoeini

We investigate electronic transport in lithographically patterned graphene ribbon structures where the lateral confinement of charge carriers creates an energy gap near the charge neutrality point. Individual graphene layers are contacted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Melinda Y. Han , Barbaros Oezyilmaz , Yuanbo Zhang , Philip Kim

We study the origin of interface states in carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions between achiral tubes. By applying the Born-von Karman boundary condition to an interface between armchair- and zigzag-terminated graphene layers, we are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-01 H. Santos , A. Ayuela , W. Jaskólski , M. Pelc , L. Chico

We investigate the in-plane oscillations of the relaxed shape graphene due to externally applied tensile edge stress along both the armchair and zigzag directions. We show that the total elastic energy density is enhanced with temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Luis L. Bonilla , Shyam Badu

We derive a model of localized edge states in the finite width strip for two-dimensional electron gas formed in the hybrid system of bismuth monolayer deposited on the silicon interface and described by the nearly-free electron model with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 D. V. Khomitsky , A. A. Chubanov

We propose a quantum gate architecture that allows for the systematic control of the effective exchange interactions between magnetic impurities embedded in nano-scale graphene flakes connected by a gated bridge. The entanglement between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Phillip Weinberg , Adrian E. Feiguin

We investigate the emergence and topological nature of interface states (IFs) in N-AGNR/$(N-2)$-AGNR/N-AGNR heterostructure (AGNRH) segments lacking translational symmetry, focusing on their relation to the end states (ESs) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 David M T Kuo

Certain types of topological superconductors and superfluids are known to host protected Majorana zero modes in cores of Abrikosov vortices. When such vortices are arranged in a dense periodic lattice one expects zero modes from neighboring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 Tianyu Liu , M. Franz

We show that monolayer graphene intrinsically hosts higher-order topological corner states, in which electrons are localized topologically at atomic sizes. The emergence of the topological corner states in graphene is due to a nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Feng Liu , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We theoretically investigate a folded bilayer graphene structure as an experimentally realizable platform to produce the one-dimensional topological zero-line modes. We demonstrate that the folded bilayer graphene under an external gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Tao Hou , Guanghui Chen , Wang-Kong Tse , Changgan Zeng , Zhenhua Qiao

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) possess distinct symmetry-protected topological phases. We show, through first-principles calculations, that by applying an experimentally accessible transverse electric field (TEF), certain boron and nitrogen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Fangzhou Zhao , Ting Cao , Steven G. Louie

An established way of realizing topologically protected states in a two-dimensional electron gas is by applying a perpendicular magnetic field thus creating quantum Hall edge channels. In electrostatically gapped bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Anna M. Seiler , Jakob Lenz , Ivar Martin , R. Thomas Weitz

Theoretical progress in graphene physics has largely relied on the application of a simple nearest-neighbor tight-binding model capable of predicting many of the electronic properties of this material. However, important features that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Z. M. Abd El-Fattah , M. A. Kher-Elden , I. Piquero-Zulaica , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , J. E. Ortega

We investigate the effects of homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformations and edge disorder on the conductance of gated graphene nanoribbons. Under increasing homogeneous strain the conductance of such devices initially decreases before it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Diana A. Cosma , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Based on the recently found non-trivial topology of buckled antimonene, we propose the conceptual design of a quantized switch that is protected by topology and a mechanism to create configurable 1D wire channels. We show that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Santosh Kumar Radha , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

We extend a special kind of localized state trapped at the intersection due to the geometric confinement, first proposed in a three-terminal-opening T-shaped structure [Euro. Phys. Lett. {\bf 55}, 539 (2001)], into a ring geometry with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 F. Yang , M. W. Wu

Combining the electronic structures of two-dimensional monolayers in ultrathin hybrid nanocomposites is expected to display new properties beyond their simplex components. Here, first-principles calculations are performed to study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-15 Wei Hu , Tian Wang , Jinlong Yang

We numerically compute the density of states (DOS) of interacting disordered zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) having midgap states showing $e/2$ fractional edge charges. The computed Hartree-Fock DOS is linear at the critical disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 S. -R. Eric Yang , Min-Chul Cha , Hye Jeong Lee , Young Heon Kim

Magic-angle helical trilayer graphene relaxes into commensurate moir\'e domains, whose topological and well-isolated set of narrow bands possess ideal characteristics for realizing robust correlated topological phases, compared with other…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 Yves H. Kwan , Patrick J. Ledwith , Chiu Fan Bowen Lo , Trithep Devakul

We study edge-states in graphene systems where a bulk energy gap is opened by inversion symmetry breaking. We find that the edge-bands dispersion can be controlled by potentials applied on the boundary with unit cell length scale. Under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-11 Wang Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Qian Niu