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We study the electronic structures and topological properties of $(M+N)$-layer twisted graphene systems. We consider the generic situation that $N$-layer graphene is placed on top of the other $M$-layer graphene, and is twisted with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jianpeng Liu , Zhen Ma , Jinhua Gao , Xi Dai

The recent Quantum Hall experiments in graphene have confirmed the theoretically well-understood picture of the quantum Hall (QH) conductance in fermion systems with continuum Dirac spectrum. In this paper we take into account the lattice,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Han-Dong Chen , Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study the problem of Coulomb field-induced charging of the ground state in a system of 2D massive Dirac particles (gapped graphene). As in its 3D QED counterpart, the critical Coulomb coupling is renormalized to higher values, compared…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 Vitor M. Pereira , Valeri N. Kotov , A. H. Castro Neto

The non-interacting energy spectrum of graphene and its bilayer counterpart consists of multiple degeneracies owing to the inherent spin, valley and layer symmetries. Interactions among charge carriers are expected to spontaneously break…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Thomas Weitz , Monica T. Allen , Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

We present a microscopic theory to give a physical picture of the formation of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in graphene due to a joint effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling $\lambda_R$ and exchange field $M$. Based on a continuum…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-29 Zhenhua Qiao , Hua Jiang , Xiao Li , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

We show that the changes in the electronic density of states (DOS) in graphene induced by impurity scattering with short-range potentials are completely different from those caused by the long-range Coulomb potential. The spectral weight of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 Stepan Grinek , Zhou Li , Jie Chen , Qinwei Shi , Frank Marsiglio

We present analytical expressions for the eigenstates and eigenvalues of electrons confined in a graphene monolayer in the presence of a disclination. The calculations are performed in the continuum limit approximation in the vicinity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Debabrata Sinha , Bertrand Berche

We report a theoretical study of the many-body effects of electron-electron interaction on the ground-state and spectral properties of double-layer graphene. Using a projector-based renormalization method we show that if a finite voltage…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Van-Nham Phan , Holger Fehske

When electrons populate a flat band their kinetic energy becomes negligible, forcing them to organize in exotic many-body states to minimize their Coulomb energy. The zeroth Landau level of graphene under magnetic field is a particularly…

Coulomb interaction is of central importance in localized energy levels (bound states) or electronic flat bands and could result in many exotic quantum phases, such as magnetic, superconducting, and topological phases in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Zhong-Qiu Fu , Ke-Ke Bai , Ya-Ning Ren , Jiao-Jiao Zhou , Lin He

We study the role of size effects on atomic collapse of charged impurity in the flat band system. The tight-binding simulations are made for the dice lattice with circular quantum dot shapes. It is shown that the mixing of in-gap edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 D. O. Oriekhov , S. O. Voronov

We show that the recently discovered double-valley splitting of the low-lying Landau level(s) in the Quantum Hall Effect in graphene can be explained as perturbative orbital interaction of intra- and inter-valley microscopic orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor A. Luk'yanchuk , Alexander M. Bratkovsky

Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon material with a honeycomb lattice and Dirac-type low-energy spectrum. In a strong magnetic field, where Coulomb interactions dominate against disorder broadening, quantum Hall ferromagnetic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Naokazu Shibata , Kentaro Nomura

In graphene, charged defects break the electron-hole symmetry and can even give rise to exotic collapse states when the defect charge exceeds a critical value which is proportional to the Fermi velocity. In this work, we investigate the…

We study massless Dirac fermions in a supercritical Coulomb potential with the emphasis on that its low-energy physics is universal and parametrized by a single quantity per supercritical angular momentum channel. This low-energy parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Yusuke Nishida

This article aims to study the linear and nonlinear optical response of inversion symmetric graphene quantum dots (GQDs) in the presence of on-site disorder or vacancies. The presence of disorder or vacancy breaks the special inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 H. K. Avetissian , G. A. Musayelyan , G. F. Mkrtchian

Coulomb effects on $\pi^\pm$ and $K^\pm$ spectra in relativistic nuclear collisions are investigated. At collision energies around 1 GeV the ratio of $\pi^-$ to $\pi^+$ is enhanced several times at low transverse momenta but less at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. W. Barz , J. P. Bondorf , J. J. Gaardhoje , H. Heiselberg

The electronic properties of graphene can be manipulated via mechanical deformations, which opens prospects for studying the Dirac fermions in new regimes and for new device applications. Certain natural configurations of strain generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 D. A. Abanin , D. A. Pesin

The large, level-dependent g-factors in an InSb nanowire quantum dot allow for the occurrence of a variety of level crossings in the dot. While we observe the standard conductance enhancement in the Coulomb blockade region for aligned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-07 H. A. Nilsson , O. Karlström , M. Larsson , P. Caroff , J. N. Pedersen , L. Samuelson , A. Wacker , L. E. Wernersson , H. Q. Xu

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