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We investigate the effect of an applied uniaxial strain on the ferromagnetic instability due to long- range Coulomb interaction between Dirac fermions in graphene. In case of undeformed graphene the ferromagnetic exchange instability occurs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto

To construct Lagrangian based on plate theory and tight-binding model, deflection-field coupling to Dirac fermions in graphene can be investigated. As have been known, deflection-induced strain may cause an effect on the motion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Bumned Soodchomshom

The discovery of graphene has stimulated enormous interest in two-dimensional (2D) electron gas with linear band structure. 2D Dirac materials possess many intriguing physical properties such as high carrier mobility and zero-energy Landau…

We analyze the effect of tensional strain in the electronic structure of graphene. In the absence of electron-electron interactions, within linear elasticity theory, and a tight-binding approach, we observe that strain can generate a bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-15 Vitor M. Pereira , A. H. Castro Neto , N. M. R. Peres

The Dirac equation, in the field of a traveling circularly polarized electromagnetic wave and a constant magnetic field, has singular solutions, corresponding the expansion of energy in vicinity of some singular point. These solutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Boris V. Gisin

Quantum point contacts (QPCs) are cornerstones of mesoscopic physics and central building blocks for quantum electronics. Although the Fermi wave-length in high-quality bulk graphene can be tuned up to hundreds of nanometers, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 B. Terrés , L. A. Chizhova , F. Libisch , J. Peiro , D. Jörger , S. Engels , A. Girschik , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , S. V. Rotkin , J. Burgdörfer , C. Stampfer

We present a set of localized states for an even number of Dirac fermions under Einsteinian gravity that have an infinite central redshift. Near the center of the localized state the components of the Dirac spinor and the spacetime metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Daniel Bakucz Canário , Sam Lloyd , Keith Horne , Chris A. Hooley

van der Waals heterostructures assembled from atomically thin crystals are ideal model systems to study spin-orbital coupled transport because they exhibit a strong interplay between spin, lattice and valley degrees of freedom that can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Carmen Monaco , Aires Ferreira , Roberto Raimondi

Nonuniform strain in graphene induces a position dependence of the Fermi velocity, as recently demonstrated by scanning tunnelling spectroscopy experiments. In this work, we study the effects of a position-dependent Fermi velocity on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 M. Oliva-Leyva , J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Chumin Wang

In BaNiS2 a Dirac nodal-line band structure exists within a two-dimensional Ni square lattice system, in which significant electronic correlation effects are anticipated. Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we discover signs of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-28 C. J. Butler , Y. Kohsaka , Y. Yamakawa , M. S. Bahramy , S. Onari , H. Kontani , T. Hanaguri , S. Shamoto

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

A class of graphene wound into three-dimensional periodic curved surfaces ("graphitic zeolites") is proposed and their electronic structures are obtained to explore how the massless Dirac fermions behave on periodic surfaces. We find in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

This paper aims to theoretically analyze the behavior of Dirac fermions in tilted Dirac cone material, particularly those that have diffused a barrier potential.Our results show that the degree of tilt in the y-direction can lead to…

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in graphene is governed by Klein tunneling, a relativistic quantum process in which particle-hole transmutation leads to unusual anisotropic transmission at pn junction boundaries. Reflection and…

Elastic strain can displace the massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene in a space-dependent fashion, similar to the effect of an external magnetic field, thus giving rise to Landau quantization. We here show that the strain-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Tianyu Liu , Jun-Hong Li , Xingchuan Zhu , Huaiming Guo , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Recently, it has been proposed a spacetime noncommutativity that involves spin degrees of freedom, here called "spin noncommutativity". One of the motivations for such a construction is that it preserves Lorentz invariance, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 A. F. Ferrari , M. Gomes , V. G. Kupriyanov , C. A. Stechhahn

Relativistic spin-1/2 particles in curved spacetime are naturally described by Dirac theory, which is a dynamical and Lorentz-invariant field theory. In this work, we propose a non-dynamical fermion theory in 3+1 dimensions dubbed spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Giandomenico Palumbo

This work is a continuation of our recent study of non-relativistic charged particles, confined to a sphere enclosing a magnetic dipole at its center. In this sequel, we extend our computations in two significant ways. The first is to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Jeff Murugan , Jonathan P. Shock , Ruach Pillay Slayen

Layered heavy-metal square-lattice compounds have recently emerged as potential Dirac fermion materials due to bonding within those sublattices. We report quantum transport and spectroscopic data on the layered Sb square-lattice material…

We study the role of long-range electron-electron interactions in a system of two-dimensional anisotropic Dirac fermions, which naturally appear in uniaxially strained graphene, graphene in external potentials, some strongly anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto