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We study the electronic transport in a graphene-based superconductor-normal(graphene)-superconductor (SNS) junction by use of the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation. We consider the properties of tunneling conductance through an undoped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

We compute the transmission of an electron through an impurity in polyacene. An analytical expression for the transmission coefficient is found. For simplicity the disorder is confined to a single unit cell, but the generalization to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-19 N. M. R. Peres , F. Sols

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

In two dimensions chaotic level-statistics is expected for massless Dirac fermions in the presence of disorder. For weakly disordered graphene flakes with zigzag edges the obtained level-spacing distribution in the Dirac region is neither…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-12 H. Amanatidis , I. Kleftogiannis , D. E. Katsanos , S. N. Evangelou

We study conductance fluctuations (CF) and the sensitivity of the conductance to the motion of a single scatterer in two-dimensional massless Dirac systems. Our extensive numerical study finds limits to the predicted universal value of CF.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Mario F. Borunda , Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

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

Based on the tight-binding formalism, we investigate the Anderson and the Kondo model for an adaom magnetic impurity above graphene. Different impurity positions are analyzed. Employing a partial wave representation we study the nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-11 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Kai-He Ding , Jamal Berakdar

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

Using the recursive Green's function method, we study the problem of electron transport in a disordered single-layer graphene sheet. The conductivity is of order $e^2/h$ and its dependence on the carrier density has a scaling form that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Antonio H. Castro Neto

Electrons moving in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, and they exhibit fascinating low-frequency electrical transport phenomena. Their dynamic response, however, is little known at frequencies above one terahertz (THz). Such…

We provide a theoretical model for electronic transitions in a two-dimensional (2D) artificial atom in a graphene monolayer. The artificial atom is due to the presence of a charged adatom (Coulomb impurity) in the layer and interacts with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Saparboy Rakhmanov , Reinhold Egger , Doniyor Jumanazarov , Davron Matrasulov

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 this paper we will give a short rewiew about the conductance of a mesoscopic waveguide strip with a few impurities. Green-function method is used allowing to treat systems with low number of impurities, not only the completly clean case.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Cserti , G. Szálka , G. Vattay

We study the effect of the edge disorder on the conductance of the graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). We find that only very modest edge disorder is sufficient to induce the conduction energy gap in the otherwise metallic GNRs and to lift any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 M. Evaldsson , I. V. Zozoulenko , Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel

We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vit Jakubsky , Raul Valencia-Torres

We investigate quantum transport in a normal/superconductor graphene heterostructure, including the possibility of an anisotropic pairing potential in the superconducting region. We find that under certain circumstances, the conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Linder , A. Sudbø

We consider electron transport in a planar fermion model containing various types of line defects modelled by $\delta$--function pseudopotentials with different matrix coefficients. The transmission probability for electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 D. Ebert , V. Ch. Zhukovsky , E. A. Stepanov

The next-nearest neighbor interaction (NNN) is included in a tight-binding calculation of the electronic spectrum and conductivity of doped graphene. As a result, we observe a wide variation of the conductivity behavior, since the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Gerardo G Naumis

We study a suspended graphene sheet subject to the electric field of a gate underneath. We compute the elastic deformation of the sheet and the corresponding effective gauge field, which modifies the electronic transport. In a clean system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. M. Fogler , F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

We study the effect of the curved ripples observed in the free standing graphene samples on the electronic structure of the system. We model the ripples as smooth curved bumps and compute the Green's function of the Dirac fermions in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano