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A ferromagnet with spin anisotropies on the 2D Kagome lattice is theoretically studied. This is a typical example of the flat-band ferromagnet. The Berry phase induced by the tilting of the spins opens the band gap and quantized Hall…

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Electron correlation in graphene is unique because of the interplay of the Dirac cone dispersion of $\pi$ electrons with long range Coulomb interaction. The random phase approximation predicts no metallic screening at long distance and low…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-23 Huihuo Zheng , Yu Gan , Peter Abbamonte , Lucas K. Wagner

Spin excitation in a nano-graphite ribbon with zigzag edges is investigated theoretically. Due to the strongly localized nature of the states near Fermi energy, the effective Hamiltonian for the low energy physics is given by Heisenberg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Yoshioka

We investigated the vibrational properties of graphene nanoribbons by means of first-principles calculations on the basis of density functional theory. We confirm that the phonon modes of graphene nanoribbons with armchair and zigzag type…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Roland Gillen , Marcel Mohr , Janina Maultzsch , Christian Thomsen

In this paper we consider a class of (2+1)D schematic models with four-fermion interactions that are effectively used in studying condensed-matter systems with planar crystal structure, and especially graphene. Symmetry breaking in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 D. Ebert , K. G. Klimenko , P. B. Kolmakov , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

We investigate spin conductance in zigzag graphene nanoribbons and propose a spin injection mechanism based only on graphitic nanostructures. We find that nanoribbons with atomically straight, symmetric edges show zero spin conductance, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-02 M. Wimmer , I. Adagideli , S. Berber , D. Tomanek , K. Richter

We study the effects of strain on the electronic properties and persistent current characteristics of a graphene ring using the Dirac representation. For a slightly deformed graphene ring flake, one obtains sizable pseudomagnetic (gauge)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-19 D. Faria , A. Latge , S. E. Ulloa , N. Sandler

Manipulation of intrinsic magnetic and electronic structures of graphene nanoflakes is of technological importance. Here we carry out systematic study of the magnetic and electronic phases, and its manipulation in graphene nanoflakes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Shreemoyee Ganguly , Mukul Kabir , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

By using analytical solution of a tight-binding model for armchair nanoribbons, it is confirmed that the solution represents the standing wave formed by intervalley scattering and that pseudospin is invariant under the scattering. The phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 K. Sasaki , K. Wakabayashi , T. Enoki

We foretell a new pseudospin-dependent phenomenon in mono-layer graphene (MLG), which is numerically simulated \emph{via} an innovator nano-spintronic device. We proposed a novel theoretical procedure for describing the dynamics of Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 L. Diago-Cisneros , Eduardo Serna , I. Rodríguez Vargas , R. Pérez-Álvarez

In this work we study the behavior of massless fermions in a graphene wormhole and in the presence of an external magnetic field. The graphene wormhole is made from two sheets of graphene that play the roles of asymptotically flat spaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 G. Q. Garcia , P. J. Porfírio , D. C. Moreira , C. Furtado

We demonstrate that free graphene sheet edges can curl back on themselves,reconstructing as nanotubes. This results in lower formation energies than any other non-functionalised edge structure reported to date in the literature. We…

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

The low-energy theory of electrons interacting via repulsive short-range interactions on graphene's honeycomb lattice at half filling is presented. The exact symmetry of the Lagrangian with local quartic terms for the Dirac field dictated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-20 Igor F. Herbut , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

The electronic properties of the wormhole and the perturbed nanocylinder will be investigated using two different methods: the continuum gauge field-theory model which deals with the contin- uum approximation of the surface and the Haydock…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 J. Smotlacha , R. Pincak

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

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has been extensively explored both theoretically and experimentally as a suitable platform for a rich and tunable phase diagram that includes ferromagnetism, charge order, broken symmetries, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Lauro B. Braz , George B. Martins , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity are most fundamental phenomena in condensed matter physics. Entailing opposite spin orders, they share an important conceptual similarity: Disturbances in magnetic ordering in magnetic materials can…

The single graphene layer is a novel material consisting of a flat monolayer of carbon atoms packed in a two-dimensional honeycomb-lattice, in which the electron dynamics is governed by the Dirac equation. A pseudo-spin phase-space approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 O. Morandi , F. Schuerrer