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Transmission probabilities of Dirac fermions in graphene under linear barrier potential oscillating in time are investigated. Solving Dirac equation we end up with the solutions of the energy spectrum depending on several modes coming from…

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High-mobility graphene hosting massless charge carriers with linear dispersion provides a promising platform for electron optics phenomena. Inspired by the physics of dielectric optical micro-cavities where the photon emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Jule-Katharina Schrepfer , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter , Martina Hentschel

We derive the single-particle eigenenergies and eigenfunctions for massless Dirac fermions confined to the surface of a sphere in the presence of a magnetic monopole, i.e., we solve the Landau level problem for electrons in graphene on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-06 Michael Arciniaga , Michael R. Peterson

Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene on its electron dispersion relations close to K point. It was shown that for both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Stanisław Krukowski , Jakub Sołtys , Jolanta Borysiuk , Jacek Piechota

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 relevance of the strain-induced Dirac point shift to obtain the appropriate anisotropic Fermi velocity of strained graphene is demonstrated. Then a critical revision of the available effective Dirac Hamiltonians is made by studying in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 M. Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo G. Naumis

We present a relativistic analysis of fermions in an external electric field by non-perturbatively solving the Dirac equation with a static gauge. Different from the magnetic field effect, the fermion wave function in an electric field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Xuan Zhao , Yi Wang , Pengfei Zhuang

The electronic properties of graphene have been intensively investigated over the last decade, and signatures of the remarkable features of its linear Dirac spectrum have been displayed using transport and spectroscopy experiments. In…

We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Ballistic transport in graphene p-n junctions in the presence of magnetic field exhibits two distinct regimes: At low fields, transport is partially suppressed by the field. When the field exceeds a certain critical value, the junction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-23 A. V. Shytov , Nan Gu , L. S. Levitov

We focus on the confinement of two-dimensional Dirac fermions within the waveguides created by realistic magnetic fields. Understanding of their band structure is of our main concern. We provide easily applicable criteria, mostly depending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Marie Fialová , Vít Jakubský , Matěj Tušek

Electrons in graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride are modelled by Dirac fermions in a correlated random-mass landscape subject to a scalar- and vector-potential disorder. We find that the system is insulating in the commensurate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 M. Titov , M. I. Katsnelson

Undistorted monolayer graphene has energy bands which cross at protected Dirac points. It elastically deforms and much research has assumed the Dirac description persists, now in a curved space and coupled to a gauge field related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Matthew M. Roberts , Toby Wiseman

We have performed low temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on exfoliated bilayer graphene on SiO2. By varying the back gate voltage we observed a linear shift of the Dirac point and an opening of a band gap due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-23 A. Deshpande , W. Bao , Z. Zhao , C. N. Lau , B. J. LeRoy

Antiferromagnetic (AF) transitions of birefringent Dirac fermions created by a Y-shaped Kekul\'e distortion in graphene are investigated by the mean-field theory and the determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We show that the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Chenyue Wen , Wanpeng Han , Xukun Feng , Xingchuan Zhu , Weisheng Zhao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Shiping Feng , Huaiming Guo

In this work, we investigate the massive Kane-Mele model for graphene in the presence of disclination and an external magnetic field, where graphene behaviors as a topological insulator. In the low-energy limit, the effective field equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 G. Q. Garcia , J. R. S. Oliveira , P. J. Porfírio , C. Furtado

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy in magnetic field was used to study Landau quantization in graphene and its dependence on charge carrier density. Measurements were carried out on exfoliated graphene samples deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adina Luican , Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei

We theoretically study the effect of the motion and the merging of Dirac cone on the interlayer magnetoresistance in multilayer graphene like systems. This merging, which could be induced by a uniaxial strain, gives rise in monolayer Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mohamed Assili , Sonia Haddad

The different physical properties of multilayered graphene or graphite relative to single layer graphene result from the Dirac spins symmetry in graphene and the Pauli spin symmetry in graphite. The Dirac symmetry in multilayers of graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-28 Reginald B. Little , Glenn J. Gex , Muhammad Ansari , James W. Mitchell

We consider a two-dimensional massless Dirac operator coupled to a magnetic field $B$ and an electric potential $V$ growing at infinity. We find a characterization of the spectrum of the resulting operator $H$ in terms of the relation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Josef Mehringer , Edgardo Stockmeyer