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Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

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For electron optics in graphene, the propagation effect has so far been the only physical mechanism available. The resulting electron-optics-based components are large in size and operate at low temperatures to avoid violating the ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ruihuang Zhao , Pengcheng Wan , Ling Zhou , Di Huang , Haiqin Guo , Hao Xia , Junjie Du

With the rapid development of nanophotonics and cavity quantum electrodynamics, there has been growing interest in how confined electromagnetic fields modify fundamental molecular processes such as electron transfer. In this paper, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Wenxiang Ying , Abraham Nitzan

Electron transfer (ET) at electrochemical interfaces is central to energy conversion and storage, yet its theoretical and computational modeling remain active research areas. This review elucidates key concepts and theories of ET kinetics,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Mengke Zhang , Yanxia Chen , Marko M. Melander , Jun Huang

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Motivated by recent experimental observations of size quantization of electron energy levels in graphene quantum dots \cite{ponomarenko} we investigate the level statistics in the simplest tight-binding model for different dot shapes by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. De Raedt , M. I. Katsnelson

The effects of a propagating sinusoidal out-of-plane flexural deformation in the electronic properties of a tense membrane of graphene are considered within a non-perturbative approach, leading to an electron-ripple coupling. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Gerardo G. Naumis

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori

Exact stationary solutions of the electron-photon Dirac equation are obtained to describe the strong interaction between massless Dirac fermions in graphene and circularly polarized photons. It follows from them that this interaction forms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-26 O. V. Kibis

Defects play a key role in the electronic structure of graphene layers flat or curved. Topological defects in which an hexagon is replaced by an n-sided polygon generate long range interactions that make them different from vacancies or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano

A new transport regime of photon in two-dimensional photonic crystal near the Dirac point has been demonstrated by exact numerical simulation. In this regime, the conductance of photon is inversely proportional to the thickness of sample,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangdong Zhang

In this work we perform electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) of freestanding graphene with high energy and momentum resolution to disentangle the quasielastic scattering from the excitation gap of Dirac electrons close to the optical…

In this short review we pass through the milestones in the studies of the electronic topological transitions (ETT) and focus on some recent applications of the ideas worked out in their classical theory. These are: two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 A. A. Varlamov , Y. M. Galperin , S. G. Sharapov , Yuriy Yerin

Heat is a familiar form of energy transported from a hot side to a colder side of an object, but not a notion associated with microscopic measurements of electronic properties. A temperature difference within a material causes charge…

We find exact states of graphene quasiparticles under a time-dependent deformation (sound wave), whose propagation velocity is smaller than the Fermi velocity. To solve the corresponding effective Dirac equation, we adapt the Volkov-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

This paper reports on the topological effects of three-dimensional (3D) porous graphene with tunable pore sizes and a preserved 2D graphene system of Dirac quasiparticles on its electrical properties. This 3D architecture is characterized…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-20 Takuya Okamoto , Yoshikazu Ito , Naoka Nagamura , Keishi Akada , Takeshi Fujita , Yukio Kawano

Pressure-induced changes in the Fermi surface of Cd up to 40 GPa are studied using highly accurate density-functional theory calculations. The topology of Fermi surface changes at pressures of 2, 8, 12 , 18 and 28 GPa indicating electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-09 Varadharajan Srinivasan , B. K. Godwal , Jeffrey C. Grossman , Raymond Jeanloz

We present energy filtered electron emission spectromicroscopy with spatial and wave-vector resolution on few layer epitaxial graphene on SiC$(000-1) grown by furnace annealing. Low energy electron microscopy shows that more than 80% of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Mathieu , N. Barrett , J. Rault , Y. Y. Mi , B. Zhang , W. A. de Heer , C. Berger , E. H. Conrad , O. Renault

Topological phase transitions can be remarkably induced purely by manipulating gain and loss mechanisms, offering a novel approach to engineering topological properties. Recent theoretical studies have revealed gain-loss-induced topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Jin Liu , Wei-Wu Jin , Zhao-Fan Cai , Xin Wang , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xiaomin Wei , Wenbo Ju , Zhongmin Yang , Tao Liu