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We study the dynamics of semiclassical electrons in (gapped) graphene in two complementary limits, i.e. in the Klein tunneling and valley Hall effect regimes, by scattering wave packets off armchair step potentials and by exposing wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Christoph. M. Puetter , Satoru Konabe , Yasuhiro Tokura , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Kenji Shiraishi

In this article, we employ the transfer matrix method to investigate relativistic particles in super-periodic potentials (SPPs) of arbitrary order $n \in I^{+}$. We calculate the reflection and transmission probabilities for spinless Klein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sudhanshu Shekhar , Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Anirban Dutta

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

We study transport properties of graphene nanostructures consisted of alternating slabs of gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of piecewise constant external potential equal to zero in the gapless regions. The transmission through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. S. Azarova , G. M. Maksimova

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a graphene sheet by introducing a potential barrier in a region of width $D$ exposed to laser field. This sheet is placed on a boron nitride/ferromagnetic substrate such as cobalt or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Rachid El Aitouni , Ahmed Jellal , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

Periodic arrays of antidots, i.e. nanoscale perforations, in graphene enable tight confinement of carriers and efficient transport barriers. Such barriers evade the Klein tunneling mechanism by being of the mass rather than electrostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Thomas Garm Pedersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen

We investigate the scattering of a wave packet describing low-energy electrons in graphene by a time-dependent finite step potential barrier. Our results demonstrate that, after Klein tunneling through the barrier, the electron acquires an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Andrey Chaves , D. R. da Costa , G. O. de Sousa , J. M. Pereira , G. A. Farias

A two-dimensional periodic array of scatterers has been introduced to a single layer of graphene in the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene layer. The eigenvalue equation for such a system has been solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

The study of waveguide propagating modes is essential for achieving directional electronic transport in two-dimensional materials. Simultaneously, exploring potential gaps in these systems is crucial for developing devices akin to those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , E. J. Robles-Raygoza , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos

We study the charge carriers transport in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a lateral one-dimensional multibarrier structure. We investigate the band structures of our system, that is made up of two shifted Dirac cones, for finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal

Graphene electrons feature a pair of massless Dirac cones of opposite pseudospin chirality at two valleys. Klein tunneling refers to the intriguing capability of these chiral electrons to penetrate through high and wide potential barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Xing-Tao An , Wang Yao

We explore the optical properties of periodic layered media containing left-handed metamaterials. This study is based on several analogies between the propagation of light in metamaterials and charge transport in graphene. We derive the…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Franco Nori

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions in ABC trilayer graphene (ABC-TLG) superlattices. More specifically, we analyze the impact of varying the physical parameters -- the number of cells, barrier/well width, and barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Jaouad El-hassouny , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

In this article, we employ the transfer matrix method (TMM) to analytically explore the impact of uniaxial strain on electron scattering in graphene under locally periodic and super-periodic electrostatic potential. Our study reveals that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sudhanshu Shekhar , Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Anirban Dutta

We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

The interaction of a wave packet (and in particular the wave front) with a mass barrier is investigated in one dimension. We discuss the main features of the wave packet that are inherent to two-dimensional wave packets, such as compression…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-08 A. Matulis , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

We characterise the dynamics of electrons in twisted bilayer graphene by analysing the time-evolution of electron waves in the atomic lattice. We perform simulations based on a kernel polynomial technique using Chebyshev polynomial; this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 H. Nam Do , H. Anh Le , D. Bercioux

Localized states in graphene have garnered significant attention in quantum information science due to their potential applications. Despite graphene's superior transport and electronic properties compared to other semiconductors, achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Seunghyun Jun , Myung-Chul Jung , Nojoon Myoung

The problem of the Klein tunneling across a potential barrier in bi-layer graphene is addressed. The electron wave functions are treated as massive chiral particles. This treatment allows us to compute the statistical complexity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 Jaime Sañudo , Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz