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Quantum theory has been remarkably successful in providing an understanding of physical systems at foundational scales. Solving the Schr\"odinger equation provides full knowledge of all dynamical quantities of the physical system. However…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Cesar Lema , Anna Choromanska

We determine the optical properties of gated bilayer graphene quantum dots with trigonal warping (TW) of single-particle energy spectra. The lateral structure of metallic gates confines electrons and holes in a quantum dot (QD)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Matthew Albert , Daniel Miravet , Yasser Saleem , Katarzyna Sadecka , Marek Korkusinski , Gabriel Bester , Pawel Hawrylak

The calculation of quantum-geometric properties of Bloch electrons -- Berry curvature, quantum metric, orbital magnetic moment and effective mass -- was implemented in a pseudopotential plane-wave code. The starting point was the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-29 José Luís Martins , Carlos Loia Reis , Ivo Souza

Electronic properties of triangular and hexagonal nano-scale quantum dots (QDs) of Silicene and bilayer graphene are studied. It is shown that the low-energy edge-localized electronic states, existing within the size-quantized gap are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hazem Abdelsalam , T. Espinosa-Ortega , Igor Lukyanchuk

We study an interaction of 2D quasiparticles with linear dispersion (graphene) with impurity potentials. It is shown that in 1D potential well (quantum wire) there are discrete levels, corresponding to localized states, whereas in 2D well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Chaplik , T. Ya. Tudorovskiy

We discussed exact solutions of the Schroedinger equation for a two-dimensional parabolic confinement potential in a homogeneous external magnetic field. It turns out that the two-electron system is exactly solvable in the sense, that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Manfred Taut , Helmut Eschrig

The tuneability and control of quantum nanostructures in two-dimensional materials offer promising perspectives for their use in future electronics. It is hence necessary to analyze quantum transport in such nanostructures. Material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Angelika Knothe , Leonid I. Glazman , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We study the electronic and magnetic properties of multilayer quantum dots (MQDs) of graphite in the nearest-neighbor approximation of tight-binding model. We calculate the electronic density of states and orbital susceptibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Hazem Abdelsalam , Tania Espinosa-Ortega , Igor Lukyanchuk

As basic elements of the quantum computer - quantum bits (qubits) we offer semiconductor quantum dots containing one electron each and consisting each of two tunnel-connected parts. The numerical solution of a Schroedinger equation with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Fedichkin , M. Yanchenko , K. A. Valiev

We study the orbital effect of a strong magnetic field parallel to the layers on the energy spectrum of the Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer and multilayers, including graphite. We consider the minimal model with the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

An N-body bosonic model with delta-contact interactions projected on the lowest Landau level is considered. For a given number of particles in a given angular momentum sector, any energy level can be obtained exactly by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Mashkevich , Sergey Matveenko , Stéphane Ouvry

We present a new method for calculating ground state properties of quantum dots in high magnetic fields. It takes into account the equilibrium positions of electrons in a Wigner cluster to minimize the interaction energy in the high field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kainz , S. A. Mikhailov , A. Wensauer , U. Roessler

The density of electron-hole pairs produced in a graphene sample immersed in a homogeneous time-dependent electrical field is evaluated. Because low energy charge carriers in graphene are described by relativistic quantum mechanics, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , P. Blain , D. Gagnon , C. Lefebvre , S. MacLean

Schwinger-Dyson equations are used to study the phase diagram of QED in three dimensions. This computation is made with full frequency-dependence in the two-point function gap equations for the first time. We also demonstrate that reliable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 P. M. Lo , E. S. Swanson

Electrostatically defined quantum dots in bilayer graphene offer a promising platform for spin qubits with presumably long coherence times due to low spin-orbit coupling and low nuclear spin density. We demonstrate two different…

The quantum capacitance model is applied to obtain an exact solution for the space-resolved carrier density in a multigated doped graphene sheet at zero temperature, with quantum correction arising from the finite electron capacity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Ming-Hao Liu

We have developed an etching process to fabricate a quantum dot and a nearby single electron transistor as a charge detector in a single layer graphene. The high charge sensitivity of the detector is used to probe Coulomb diamonds as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ling-Jun Wang , Gang Cao , Tao Tu , Hai-Ou Li , Cheng Zhou , Xiao-Jie Hao , Zhan Su , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo , Hong-Wen Jiang

The structure stability and electronic properties of edge carboxylated hexagonal and triangular graphene quantum dots are investigated by using density functional theory. The calculated binding energies show that the hexagonal clusters with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hazem Abdelsalam , Hanan Elhaes , Medhat A. Ibrahim

We derive an effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian to describe the low energy electronic excitations of a graphite bilayer, which correspond to chiral quasiparticles with a parabolic dispersion exhibiting Berry phase $2\pi$. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

In the field of condensed matter, graphene plays a central role as an emerging material for nanoelectronics. Nevertheless, graphene is a semimetal, which constitutes a severe limitation for some future applications. Therefore, a lot of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 S. Zhao , J. Lavie , L. Rondin , L. Orcin-Chaix , C. Diederichs , Ph. Roussignol , Y. Chassagneux , C. Voisin , K. Müllen , A. Narita , S. Campidelli , J. S. Lauret