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Recent experiments on triangular lattice organic Mott insulators have found evidence for a 2D spin liquid in proximity to the metal-insulator transition. A Gutzwiller wavefunction study of the triangular lattice Heisenberg model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 D. N. Sheng , Olexei I. Motrunich , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The electronic density of states of graphene is equivalent to that of relativistic electrons. In the absence of disorder or external doping the Fermi energy lies at the Dirac point where the density of states vanishes. Although transport…

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Junctions composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been theoretically proposed as electron beam splitters where incoming electron waves in one GNR can be split coherently into propagating waves in \emph{two} outgoing…

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The fate of the charge-neutral Dirac point in graphene in a high magnetic field $H$ has been investigated at low temperatures ($T\sim$ 0.3 K). In samples with small $V_0$ (the gate voltage needed to access the Dirac point), the resistance…

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The energy spectra of spin-1/2 electrons under two-dimensional magnetic field modulations are calculated beyond the one-band approximation. Our formulation is generally applicable to a modulation field with a rectangular lattice symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Che Chang , Min-Fong Yang

In this work, we investigate collective modes in a nodal line semimetal with two nodal-lines that have opposite spin polarization in the presence of spin population imbalance. We find the components of polarization operator taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 SK Firoz Islam , Alexander A. Zyuzin

Employing the recently developed momentum-space quantum Monte Carlo scheme, we study the dynamic response of single-particle and collective excitations in realistic continuum models of twisted bilayer graphene. At charge neutrality, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-21 Gaopei Pan , Xu Zhang , Heqiu Li , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

We propose a mechanical granular graphene obtained by replacing the carbon atoms with macroscopic spherical stainless steel beads in contact. The experimental measured dispersion relation is presented, in conjunction with evidence of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Li-Yang Zheng , Florian Allein , Vincent Tournat , Vitalyi Gusev , Georgios Theocharis

The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer quantum Hall system can sustain an interlayer coherence at filling factor nu=1 even in the absence of tunneling between the layers. This system has low-energy charged excitations which may carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 R. Cote , D. B. Boisvert , J. Bourassa , M. Boissonneault , H. A. Fertig

Bilayer graphene in a magnetic field supports eight zero-energy Landau levels, which, as a tunable band gap develops, split into two nearly-degenerate quartets separated by the band gap. A close look is made into the properties of such an…

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Highly-doped graphene samples show the conductance reduced and the shot-noise power enhanced compared to standard ballistic systems in two-dimensional electron gas. These features can be understood within a model assuming incoherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Adam Rycerz , Katarzyna Rycerz , Piotr Witkowski

We report the results of neutron scattering on a powder sample of Gd3Ga5O12 at high magnetic fields. We find that in high fields (B>1.8 T) the system is not fully polarized, but has a small canting of the moments induced by the dipolar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 N. d'Ambrumenil , O. A. Petrenko , H. Mutka , P. P. Deen

We show that the critical charge for the Dirac excitations in gapless graphene depends on the spatial topology of the sample. In particular, for graphene cones, the effective value of the critical charge can tend towards zero for a suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Baishali Chakraborty , Kumar S. Gupta , Siddhartha Sen

In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

We extend recently proposed variational coupled-cluster method to describe excitation states of quantum antiferromagnetic bipartite lattices. We reproduce the spin-wave excitations (i.e., magnons with spin $\pm 1$). In addition, we obtain a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Xian

At low-energy, the band structure of graphene can be approximated by two degenerate valleys $(K,K^{\prime})$ about which the electronic spectra of the valence and conduction bands have linear dispersion relations. An electronic state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Cote , J. -F. Jobidon , H. A. Fertig

In the recent years many researches were performed about graphene. Graphene is always considered a half metal or a zero gap semiconductor. In the last year new experiments were done about graphene on boron nitride and they obtained an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Salvatore Croce

We consider theoretically the electronic structure of quasi-two and quasi-one-dimensional heterostructures comprised of III-V and II-VI semiconductors such as InAs/GaInSb and HgCdTe. We show that not only a Dirac-like dispersion exists in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jacob B. Khurgin , Igor Vurgaftman

We show that line defects in a non-Abelian Kitaev spin liquid harbor gapless one-dimensional Majorana modes if the interaction across the defect falls below a critical value. Treating the weak interaction at the line defect within a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-10 Lucas R. D. Freitas , Rodrigo G. Pereira

Graphene is promising as a host material for electron spin qubits because of its predicted potential for long coherence times. In armchair graphene nanoribbons (aGNRs) a small bandgap is opened, allowing for electrically gated quantum dots,…

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