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Photon-assisted charge transport through a double barrier structure under a time periodic field in graphene is studied. Within the framework of the Floquet formalism and using the transfer matrix method, the transmission probabilities for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 H. P. Ojeda-Collado , C. Rodríguez-Castellanos

Graphene supports surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with extreme field confinement and electrical tunability, but these waves are typically short-lived due to ohmic loss in the sheet. We show that embedding graphene in an active dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Andrianos Sygrimis , Giorgos P. Tsironis

Band gap engineering in graphene may open the routes towards transistor devices in which electric current can be switched off and on at will. One may, however, ask if a semiconducting band gap alone is sufficient to quench the current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 G. Tkachov , Martina Hentschel

We have implemented a generic method, based on the 2n+1 theorem within density functional perturbation theory, to calculate the anharmonic scattering coefficients among three phonons with arbitrary wavevectors. The method is used to study…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-24 Lorenzo Paulatto , Francesco Mauri , Michele Lazzeri

The gate-controllable complex conductivity of graphene offers unprecedented opportunities for reconfigurable plasmonics at THz and mid-IR frequencies. However, the requirement of a gating electrode close to graphene and the single `control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 J. S. Gomez-Diaz , C. Moldovan , S. Capdevilla , J. Romeu , L. S. Bernard , A. Magrez , A. M. Ionescu , J. Perruisseau-Carrier

We propose efficient and parallel algorithms for the implementation of the high-order continuous time Galerkin method for dissipative and wave propagation problems. By using Legendre polynomials as shape functions, we obtain a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu

We calculate the conductivity of arbitrarily stacked multilayer graphene sheets within a relaxation time approximation, considering both short-range and long-range impurities. We theoretically investigate the feasibility of identifying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-20 Hongki Min , Parakh Jain , S. Adam , M. D. Stiles

Similar to static systems, periodically driven systems can host a variety of topologically non-trivial phases. Unlike the case of static Hamiltonians, the topological indices of bulk Floquet bands may fail to describe the presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. C. Fulga , M. Maksymenko

Graphene has opened new avenues of research in quantum transport, with potential applications for coherent electronics. Coherent transport depends sensitively on scattering from microscopic disorder present in graphene samples: electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M Westervelt

Graphene provides a canonical setting for Floquet band engineering, where circularly polarized light can dynamically open topological gaps at Dirac points and generate nonequilibrium Hall responses. Here we show that uniaxial strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yu-Wen Xu , Xiaolin Wan , Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

We develop a generalization of the time-varying Drude model, treating carrier density, effective mass, and collision rate as explicit functions of time. We derive expressions for polarization, susceptibility, displacement, and permittivity…

Strongly driven nonlinear systems are frequently encountered in physics, yet their accurate control is generally challenging due to the intricate dynamics. In this work, we present a non-perturbative, semi-analytical framework for tailoring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Kento Taniguchi , Atsushi Noguchi , Takashi Oka

Wave propagation control by spatial modulation of velocity has a long history in optics and acoustics. We address velocity-modulation control of electron wave propagation in graphene and other two-dimensional Dirac-electron systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Arnaud Raoux , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. R. Hamilton , Rosario Fazio , A. H. MacDonald

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a graphene sheet by introducing a potential barrier in a region of width $D$ exposed to laser field. This sheet is placed on a boron nitride/ferromagnetic substrate such as cobalt or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Rachid El Aitouni , Ahmed Jellal , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

By exploiting singular spatial modulations of the graphene conductivity, we design a broadband, tunable THz absorber whose efficiency approaches the theoretical upper bound for a wide absorption band with a fractional bandwidth of 185\%.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Emanuele Galiffi , John Pendry , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in condensed-matter systems is both a source of fundamental insight into quantum electron motion and a promising candidate to realize compact ultraviolet and ultrafast light sources. Here we argue that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Joel D. Cox , Andrea Marini , F. Javier García de Abajo

Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous in polycrystalline graphene materials obtained by various growth methods. It has been shown previously that considerable electrical transport gap can be opened by grain boundaries. On the other hand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 S. Bala Kumar , Jing Guo

This paper presents a novel analytical model for chiral multi-layer waveguides incorporating graphene sheets. The general structure is composed of various chiral layers, where a graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two adjacent chiral…

The temporal modulation of material parameters enables optical amplification within linear media. Here we consider the fundamental building block of plasmonics, a subwavelength metal nanoparticle, and study how temporal modulation alters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Miguel Verde , Paloma A. Huidobro

Despite their empirical success, how diffusion models generalize remains poorly understood from a mechanistic perspective. We demonstrate that diffusion models trained with flow-matching objectives exhibit grokking--delayed generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Joon Hyeok Kim , Yong-Hyun Park , Mattis Dalsætra Østby , Jiatao Gu