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In the present work, we investigate how structural defects in graphene can change its transport properties. In particular, we show that breaking of the sublattice symmetry in a graphene monolayer overcomes the Klein effect, leading to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Popovici , O. Oliveira , W. de Paula , T. Frederico

The low energy electronic excitations in single layer and bilayer graphite (graphene) resemble quantum-relativistic particles also known as Dirac Fermions (DF). They possess an internal degree of freedom, chirality, that leads to unusual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei

When electrons are confined in two dimensions and subjected to strong magnetic fields, the Coulomb interactions between them become dominant and can lead to novel states of matter such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. In these liquids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kirill I. Bolotin , Fereshte Ghahari , Michael D. Shulman , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

The derivation for the transport coefficients of an electron system in the presence of temperature gradient and the electric and magnetic fields are presented. The Nernst conductivity and the transverse thermoelectric power of the Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-20 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We present a first-principles investigation of the phonon-induced electron self-energy in graphene. The energy dependence of the self-energy reflects the peculiar linear bandstructure of graphene and deviates substantially from the usual…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-08-23 Cheol-Hwan Park , Feliciano Giustino , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

We investigate theoretically the electronic transport properties in narrow graphene ribbons with an adatom-induced defect. It is found that the lowest conductance step of a metallic graphene nanoribbon may develop a dip even down to zero at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-05 Jie-Yun Yan , Ping Zhang , Bo Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu , Zhigang Wang , Suqing Duan , Xian-Geng Zhao

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

In neutral graphene dots the Fermi level coincides with the Dirac points. We have investigated in the presence of a magnetic field several unusual properties of single electron states near the Fermi level of such a rectangular-shaped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 S. C. Kim , P. S. Park , S. -R. Eric Yang

Recent successes in manufacturing of atomically thin graphite samples (graphene) have stimulated intense experimental and theoretical activity. The key feature of graphene is the massless Dirac type of low-energy electron excitations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Multi-point probability measures along with the dielectric function of Dirac Fermions in mono-layer graphene containing particle-particle and white-noise (out-plane) disorder interactions on an equal footing in the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-06 M. N. Najafi

We present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

One of the most important developments in condensed matter physics in recent years has been the discovery and characterization of graphene. A two-dimensional layer of Carbon arranged in a hexagonal lattice, graphene exhibits many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-23 Christopher Winterowd , Carleton DeTar , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Understanding the magnetic properties of graphenic nanostructures is instrumental in future spintronics applications. These magnetic properties are known to depend crucially on the presence of defects. Here we review our recent theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Elton J. G. Santos , Andres Ayuela , Daniel Sanchez-Portal

The electric conductance of a strip of undoped graphene increases in the presence of a disorder potential, which is smooth on atomic scales. The phenomenon is attributed to impurity-assisted resonant tunneling of massless Dirac fermions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Titov

Application of secondary quantized self-consistent Dirac -- Hartree -- Fock approach to consider electronic properties of monolayer graphene with accounting of spin-polarized states allows to coherently explain experimental results on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 H. V. Grushevskaya , G. G. Krylov

We study a weakly disordered 2D electron gas with two bands and a spectral node within the weak-localization approach and compare its results with those of Gaussian fluctuations around the self-consistent Born approximation. The appearance…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-06 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner

By means of a multi-scale first-principles approach, a description of the local electronic structure of two-dimensional and narrow phosphorene sheets with various types of modifications is presented. First, a rational argument based on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-03 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

Optical properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions are considered by the formalism of pseudospin precession equations which provides an easy and natural semiphenomenological way to include correlation effects. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 M. I. Katsnelson

We show that the plasmon spectrum of an ordinary two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) hosted in a GaAs heterostructure is significantly modified when a graphene sheet is placed on the surface of the semiconductor in close proximity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Alessandro Principi , Matteo Carrega , Reza Asgari , Vittorio Pellegrini , Marco Polini