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We solve the 2D Dirac equation describing graphene in the presence of a linear vector potential. The discretization of the transverse momentum due to the infinite mass boundary condition reduced our 2D Dirac equation to an effective massive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hocine Bahlouli , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We theoretically study the electronic transport properties of Dirac fermions through one and double triangular barriers in graphene. Using the transfer matrix method, we determine the transmission, conductance and Fano factor. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

Metal atoms on graphene, when ionized, can act as a point charge impurity to probe a charge response of graphene with the Dirac cone band structure. To understand the microscopic physics of the metal-atom-induced charge and spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-16 Jae-Hyeon Parq , Jaejun Yu , Young-Kyun Kwon , Gunn Kim

We evaluate the autocorrelation function of the electrostatic potential in doped graphene due to nearby charged impurities. The screening of those impurities is described by a combination of the polarization function for graphene in random…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-25 Rastko Anicic , Zoran Miskovic

Electrical properties of multi-layer graphene are subject to variations due to random interlayer alignments. In this work we reported graphene interlayer conductance without special layer aligning. Ohmic contacts between two graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Yin Sun , Xintong Zhang , Longyan Wang , Lining Zhang , Salahuddin Raju , Mansun Chan

We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Kumar S. Gupta , Andjelo Samsarov , Siddhartha Sen

The tunneling current between two crossed graphene ribbons is described invoking the empirical pseudopotential approximation and the Bardeen transfer Hamiltonian method. Results indicate that the density of states is the most important…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Maarten L. Van de Put , William G. Vandenberghe , Bart Sorée , Wim Magnus , Massimo Fischetti

We study transport through a one-dimensional quantum wire of correlated fermions connected to semi-infinite leads. The wire contains either a single impurity or two barriers, the latter allowing for resonant tunneling. In the leads the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Enss , V. Meden , S. Andergassen , X. Barnabe-Theriault , W. Metzner , K. Schoenhammer

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

The relativistic nature of Dirac electrons and holes in graphene profoundly affects the way they interact with impurities. Signatures of the relativistic behavior have been observed recently in scanning tunneling measurements on individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

We investigated the Dirac electrons transmission through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. An anomalous photon-assisted enhanced transmission is predicted and explained in a comparison with the well-known…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak , Danhong Huang

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the character of disorder. Away from half filling, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

This work analyses how impurities and vacancies on the surface of a graphene sample affect its optical conductivity and plasmon excitations. The disorder is analysed in the self-consistent Green's function formulation and nonlocal effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Giovanni Viola , Tobias Wenger , Jari Kinaret , Mikael Fogelström

We study resonant tunneling through a superconducting double barrier structure in graphene as a function of the system parameters. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

We study the physics of Dirac fermions in a gapped graphene monolayer containing two Coulomb impurities. For the case of equal impurity charges, we discuss the ground-state energy using the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 D. Klöpfer , A. De Martino , D. Matrasulov , R. Egger

The electronic energy spectrum of graphene electron subjected to a homogeneous magnetic field in the presence of a charged Coulomb impurity is studied analytically within two-dimensional Dirac-Weyl picture by using variational approach. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

The energy spectrum of graphene sheet with a single barrier structure having a time periodic oscillating height and subjected to magnetic field is analyzed. The corresponding transmission is studied as function of the obtained energy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Hocine Bahlouli

With a conserving formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation, we study the Hall conductivity of Dirac fermions in graphene under charged impurity scatterings. The calculated inverse Hall coefficient is compared with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-23 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

On the basis of self-consistent Born approximation, we solve the Bethe-Salpeter matrix equations for Cooperon propagator of the Dirac fermions in graphene under the charged impurity scatterings and a weak external magnetic field. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-23 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang