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Graphynes offer a chemically heterogeneous $sp/sp^{2}$ carbon framework with distinct electronic regimes and site-selective reactivity. Here, Density Functional Theory and Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations are combined to evaluate…

The relativistic Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation is used for an advanced description of planar graphene electrons in external fields and free (2+1)-space. It is shown that the initial Dirac equation should by based on the usual $(4\times4)$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Alexander J. Silenko

The study of nanostructures' vibrational properties is at the core of nanoscience research, they are known to represent a fingerprint of the system as well as to hint the underlying nature of chemical bonds. In this work we focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Jesús N. Pedroza-Montero , Ignacio L. Garzón , Huziel E. Sauceda

Graphene is considered to be a promising candidate for future nano-electronics due to its exceptional electronic properties. Unfortunately, the graphene field-effect-transistors (FETs) cannot be turned off effectively due to the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 Fengnian Xia , Damon B. Farmer , Yu-ming Lin , Phaedon Avouris

The manipulation of the electron spin degree of freedom is at the core of the spintronics paradigm, which offers the perspective of reduced power consumption, enabled by the decoupling of information processing from net charge transfer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits extremely low Fermi velocities for electrons, with the speed of sound surpassing the Fermi velocity. This regime enables the use of TBG for amplifying vibrational waves of the lattice through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Iliya Esin , Ilya Esterlis , Eugene Demler , Gil Refael

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The energy spectrum for the problem of 8-Pmmn borophene's electronic carriers under perpendicular incidence of electromagnetic waves is studied without the use of any perturbative technique. This allows to study the effects of very strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Abdiel E. Champo , Gerardo G. Naumis

Though graphene has been intensively studied by Raman spectroscopy, in this letter, we report a study of second-order overtone and combinational Raman modes in an unexplored range of 1690-2150 cm-1 in nonsuspended commensurate (AB-stacked),…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-19 Chunxiao Cong , Ting Yu , Riichiro Saito

Graphene on a substrate has been shown to exhibit a transition, depending on the substrate material, from a zero-gap semiconductor state to a semimetallic state. The ground-state energy of the electron (hole) gas has been calculated within…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-30 P. V. Ratnikov

Phonon self-energy corrections have mostly been studied theoretically and experimentally for phonon modes with zone-center (q = 0) wave-vectors. Here, gate-modulated Raman scattering is used to study phonons of a single layer of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 P. T. Araujo , D. L. Mafra , K. Sato , R. Saito , J. Kong , M. S. Dresselhaus

Electronic band structures dictate the mechanical, optical and electrical properties of crystalline solids. Their experimental determination is therefore of crucial importance for technological applications. While the spectral distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 C. Dutreix , H. González-Herrero , I. Brihuega , M. I. Katsnelson , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

We present a computational study of the two-phonon Raman spectra of silicene and graphene within a density-functional non-orthogonal tight-binding model. Due to the presence of linear bands close to the Fermi energy in the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Valentin N. Popov , Philippe Lambin

Emergent phenomena arising from the collective behavior of electrons is generally expected when Coulomb interactions dominate over the kinetic energy, as in delocalized quasiparticles in highly degenerate flat bands. Bernal-stacked bilayer…

The Gardiner's phonon presented for a particle-number conserving approximation method to describe the dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condesation (BEC) (C.W. Gardiner, Phys. Rev. A 56, 1414 (1997)) is shown to be a physical realization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Sun , S. X. Yu , Y. B. Gao

Band structure determines the motion of electrons in a solid, giving rise to exotic phenomena when properly engineered. Drawing an analogy between electrons and photons, artificially designed optical lattices indicate the possibility of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Siqi Wang , Xianqing Lin , Mervin Zhao , Changjian Zhang , Sui Yang , Yuan Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , David Tomanek , Xiang Zhang

We develop an ab initio framework that captures the impact of electron-electron and electron-hole interactions on phonon properties. This enables the inclusion of excitonic effects in the optical phonon dispersions and lifetimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Alberto Guandalini , Francesco Macheda , Giovanni Caldarelli , Francesco Mauri

We provide a thorough study of a carbon divacancy, a fundamental but almost unexplored point defect in graphene. Low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging of irradiated graphene on different substrates enabled us to…

A ferroelectric material often exhibits a soft transvers optical (TO) phonon mode which governs it phase transition. Charge coupling to this ferroelectric soft mode may further mediate emergent physical properties, including…

The unique terahertz properties of graphene has been identified for novel optoelectronic applications. In a graphene sample with bias voltage added, there is an enhanced absorption in the far infrared region and a diminished absorption in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 Yuan Yang , Grigory Kolesov , Lucas Kocia , Eric J. Heller