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A suspended, doubly clamped single wall carbon nanotube is characterized at cryogenic temperatures. We observe specific switching effects in dc-current spectroscopy of the embedded quantum dot. These have been identified previously as…

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Persistent currents and transport properties are investigated for the nano-graphite ribbons with zigzag shaped edges with paying attention to system length $L$ dependence. It is found that both the persistent current in the isolated ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hideo Yoshioka , Satomi Higashibata

We study theoretically the electron transport properties in carbon nanotubes under the influence of an external electric field E(t) using Boltzmann's equation. The current-density equation is derived. Negative differential conductivity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 S. S. Abukari , S. Y. Mensah N. G. Mensah , K. W. Adu , K. A. Dompreh , A. K. Twum

It is found that the magnetization curves of samples of fragments of cathode carbon deposits with a high content of multiwalled nanotubes exhibit a pronounced irreversible character, attesting to the induction of persistent currents in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Tsebro , O. E. Omelyanovskii , A. P. Moravskii

For a system of two spatially separated monoatomic graphene layers encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride, we consider the drag effect between charge carriers in the Fermi liquid regime. Commonly, the phenomenon is described in terms of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Bruno Amorim , Jürgen Schiefele , Fernando Sols , Francisco Guinea

Recent experimental observations have reported that, rather than randomly distributed, nitrogen atoms may prefer to be located on one of the two sub-lattices of graphene. It has been suggested that such a preference may present a possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira

The transport properties of finite nanotubes placed in a magnetic field parallel to their axes are investigated. Upon including spin-orbit coupling and curvature effects, two main phenomena are analyzed which crucially depend on the tube's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Miriam del Valle , Magdalena Marganska , Milena Grifoni

Using first-principles calculations, the effect of magnetic point defects (vacancy and adatom) is investigated in zigzag graphene nanoribbons. The structural, electronic, and spin-transport properties are studied. While pristine ribbons…

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Atomically thin crystals hosting flat electronic bands have been recently identified as a rich playground for exploring and engineering strongly correlated phases. Yet, their variety remains limited, primarily to two-dimensional moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Ruize Ma , Nikita V. Tepliakov , Arash A. Mostofi , Michele Pizzochero

Formation of wrinkles is a common phenomenon in the large area growth of two dimensional layered materials on metallic substrates. Wrinkles can significantly affect the working of 2D materials based large scale electronic devices and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Monika Moun , Aastha Vasdev , Rajashekhar Pujar , K. Priya Madhuri , U. Mogera , Neena S. John , G. U. Kulkarni , Goutam Sheet

Individual metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes show unsual non-Ohmic transport behaviors at high bias fields. For low resistance contact samples, the differential conductance dI/dV increases with increasing bias, reaching a maximum at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Fujita , H. C. Ho

Motivated by Hall viscosity measurements in graphene sheets, we study hydrodynamic transport of electrons in a channel of finite width in external electric and magnetic fields. We consider electric charge densities varying from close to the…

We theoretically predict that the motion of a polar crystalline layer between two graphene planes exerts Coulomb drag on electrons in graphene, inducing a DC drag current. The physical mechanism underlying this drag arises from intervalley…

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Recent fluorescence spectroscopy experiments on single wall carbon nanotubes reveal substantial deviations of observed absorption and emission energies from predictions of noninteracting models of the electronic structure. Nonetheless, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Presence of flat bands and edge states at the Fermi level in graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges is one of the most interesting and attracting properties of nanocarbon materials but it is believed that they are quite fragile states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomoaki Kaneko , Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura

Electronic transport through nanostructures is greatly affected by the presence of superconducting leads. If the interface between the nanostructure and the superconductors is sufficiently transparent, a dissipationless current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jorden A. van Dam , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

We investigate the conductivity $\sigma$ of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges as a function of Fermi energy $E_F$ in the presence of the impurities with different potential range. The dependence of $\sigma(E_F)$ displays four different…

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Similar to the cuprate high TC superconductors, the iron pnictide superconductors also lie in close proximity to a magnetically ordered phase. A central debate concerning the superconducting mechanism is whether the local magnetic moments…

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We study the superconducting correlations induced in graphene when it is placed between two superconductors, focusing in particular on the supercurrents supported by the 2D system. For this purpose we make use of a formalism placing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Gonzalez , E. Perfetto

Magneto-transport properties in closed and open loop structures are carefully reviewed within a tight-binding formalism. A novel mesoscopic phenomenon where a non-vanishing current is observed in a conducting loop upon the application of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti