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The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer graphene in the Bernal stacking supports a variety of uniform broken-symmetry ground states in Landau level N=0 at integer filling factors $\nu \in [-3,4].$ When an electric potential difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 R. Cote , J. P. Fouquet , Wenchen Luo

Graphene nanoribbons are the counterpart of carbon nanotubes in graphene-based nanoelectronics. We investigate the electronic properties of chemically modified ribbons by means of density functional theory. We observe that chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Cervantes-Sodi , G. Csányi , S. Piscanec , A. C. Ferrari

Motivated by recent work on Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin systems on various lattices made up of triangles, we examine the low-energy properties of a chain of antiferromagnetically coupled triangles of half-odd-integer spins. We derive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Raghu , Indranil Rudra , S. Ramasesha , Diptiman Sen

We present a detailed theoretical study of bilayer-graphene's electronic properties in the presence of electric and magnetic fields. Using group-theoretical methods, we derive an invariant expansion of the Hamiltonian for electron states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 R. Winkler , U. Zülicke

We investigate a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain with trimerized exchange couplings relevant to Na$_2$Cu$_3$Ge$_4$O$_{12}$. We show that the low-energy Hilbert space maps onto an effective Heisenberg chain of composite spin-1/2 trimer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Snehasish Sen , Sudhansu S. Mandal

Motivated by recent experiments of successfully carving out stable carbon atomic chains from graphene, we investigate a device structure of a carbon chain connecting two zigzag graphene nanoribbons with highly tunable spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Yuehua Xu , Bao-Ji Wang , San-Huang Ke

We consider the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the two-dimensional square-kagome lattice with almost dispersionless lowest magnon band. For a general exchange coupling geometry we elaborate low-energy effective Hamiltonians…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-08 Oleg Derzhko , Johannes Richter , Olesia Krupnitska , Taras Krokhmalskii

Recently, great experimental efforts towards designing topological electronic states have been invested in layered incommensurate heterostructures which form various nano- and meso-scale domains. In particular, it has become clear that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Jean-Baptiste Touchais , Pascal Simon , Andrej Mesaros

This study theoretically investigated the magnetic properties and electronic structure of a graphene-based nano-spin-valve-like structure. Magnetic nickel layers on both sides of the graphene were considered. A spin-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Yusuf Wicaksono , Shingo Teranishi , Kazutaka Nishiguchi , Koichi Kusakabe

We present a systematic derivation of effective lattice spin Hamiltonians derived from a rotationally invariant multi-orbital Hubbard model including a term ensuring Hund's rule coupling. The Hamiltonians are derived down-folding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Markus Hoffmann , Stefan Blügel

We investigate the properties of a three-leg quantum spin tube using several techniques such as the density matrix renormalization group method, strong coupling approaches and the non linear sigma model. For integer spins S, the model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-03-01 D. Charrier , S. Capponi , M. Oshikawa , P. Pujol

We derive electronic tight-binding Hamiltonians for strained graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides based on Wannier transformation of {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations. Our microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Shiang Fang , Stephen Carr , Miguel A. Cazalilla , Efthimios Kaxiras

Graphene in the quantum Hall regime exhibits a multi-component structure due to the electronic spin and chirality degrees of freedom. While the applied field breaks the spin symmetry explicitly, we show that the fate of the chirality SU(2)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , R. Moessner , B. Doucot

The excitations of the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin chain in zero field are known as spinons. As pairwise-created fractionalized excitations, spinons are important in the understanding of inelastic neutron scattering experiments in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-31 Rogier Vlijm , Jean-Sébastien Caux

Graphene is a gapless semiconductor in which conduction and valence band wavefunctions differ only in the phase difference between their projections onto the two sublattices of the material's two-dimensional honeycomb crystal structure. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 Allan H. MacDonald , Jeil Jung , Fan Zhang

Microscopic models of quantum antiferromagnets are investigated on the basis of a mapping onto effective low energy hamiltonians. Lattice effects are carefully taken into account and their role is discussed. We show that the presence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Gliozzi , A. Parola

Spin relaxation in graphene is investigated in electrical graphene spin valve devices in the non-local geometry. Ferromagnetic electrodes with in-plane magnetizations inject spins parallel to the graphene layer. They are subject to Hanle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 N. Tombros , S. Tanabe , A. Veligura , C. Jozsa , M. Popinciuc , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

Recent experiments indicate room-temperature ferromagnetism in graphite like materials. This paper offers an multiple spin state analysis to find out the origine of ferromagnetism in case of nano meter size graphene molecule.First principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 Norio Ota , Narjes Gorjizadeh , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

We study the quasi-one-dimensional limit of the spin-1/2 quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice. The lattice is divided into antiferromagnetic spin-chains (exchange J) that are weakly coupled via intermediate "dangling"…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-20 Andreas P. Schnyder , Oleg A. Starykh , Leon Balents

We present a minimal but crucial microscopic theory for epitaxial graphene and graphene nanoribbons on the 4H-SiC(0001) surface -- protopypical materials to explore physical properties of graphene in large scale. Coarse-grained model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 Seungchul Kim , Jisoon Ihm , Hyoung Joon Choi , Young-Woo Son