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Graphene is a 2-dimensional material with high carrier mobility and thermal conductivity, suitable for high-speed electronics. Conduction and valence bands touch at the Dirac point. The absorptivity of single-layer graphene is 2.3%, nearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Marcus Freitag , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Mathias Steiner , Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

The high tunability of the density of states of graphene makes it an ideal probe of quantum transport in different regimes. In particular, the supercurrent that can flow through a non-superconducting (N) material connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Chuan Li , S. Guéron , A. Chepelianskii , H. Bouchiat

Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity and charge fractionalization. While twisted moire systems like twisted bilayer graphene have revealed such states, they remain complex to control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Elias Andrade , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

Graphene, the atomic-thin layer of carbon atoms, was first isolated on an insulating substrate in 2004 by two groups in Manchester University [1, 2] and Columbia [3]. Those milestone experiments established the Dirac nature of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 J. Cayssol

The honeycomb lattice of graphene is a unique two-dimensional (2D) system where the quantum mechanics of electrons is equivalent to that of relativistic Dirac fermions. Novel nanometer-scale behavior in this material, including electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Feng Wang , Caglar Girit , Yossi Yayon , Melissa Panlasigui , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

In a recent experiment [Lin et al., arXiv:2112.07841], the superconducting phase hosted by a heterostructure of mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene and WSe$_2$ was shown to exhibit significantly different critical currents in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Harley D. Scammell , J. I. A. Li , Mathias S. Scheurer

The linear conductance spectrum of a metallic graphene junction formed by interconnecting two gapless graphene nanoribbons is calculated. A strong conductance suppression appears in the vicinity of the Dirac point. We found that such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Yisong Zheng

Andreev reflection at a superconductor and Klein tunneling through an n-p junction in graphene are two processes that couple electrons to holes -- the former through the superconducting pair potential Delta and the latter through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 C. W. J. Beenakker , A. R. Akhmerov , P. Recher , J. Tworzydlo

Recently, there has been great interest in the phenomenon of severe violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in graphene Dirac fluids around 75 K, due to the strong coupling relativistic plasma near the neutral point, where traditional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-12 C. E. Liu , S. G. Zhang

We show a spin superconductor (SSC) in ferromagnetic graphene as the counterpart to the charge superconductor, in which a spin-polarized electron-hole pair plays the role of the spin $2 (\hbar/2)$ `Cooper pair' with a neutral charge. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Qing-feng Sun , Zhao-tan Jiang , Yue Yu , X. C. Xie

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting states that break time reversal symmetry spontaneously and typically feature Cooper pairing at non-zero angular momentum. Such states may host Majorana fermions and provide an…

Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Markus Kindermann , M. Y. Chou

Saturable absorption is a non-perturbative nonlinear optical phenomenon that plays a pivotal role in the generation of ultrafast light pulses. Here we show that this effect emerges in graphene at unprecedentedly low light intensities, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 A. Marini , J. D. Cox , F. J. Garcia de Abajo

We explore the effect of noise on the ballistic graphene-based small Josephson junctions in the framework of the resistively and capacitively shunted model. We use the non-sinusoidal current-phase relation specific for graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

The interplay between novel topological states and superconductivity has garnered substantial interest due to its potential for topological quantum computing. The Josephson effect serves as a useful probe for edge superconductivity in these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-12 Junjie Qi , Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Jie Liu , Ke He , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We study the conductance of disordered graphene superlattices with short-range structural correlations. The system consists of electron- and hole-doped graphenes of various thicknesses, which fluctuate randomly around their mean value. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Abedpour , Ayoub Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

We study the superconducting phase transition, both in a graphene bilayer and in graphite. For that purpose we derive the mean-field effective potential for a stack of graphene layers presenting hopping between adjacent sheets. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , E. C. Marino , A. L. Mota

We report on a tunable Josephson junction formed by a bilayer graphene ribbon encapsulated in WSe$_2$ with superconducting niobium contacts. We characterize the junction by measurements of the magnetic field induced interference pattern,…

Pristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility and conductance if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Here, we reveal a universal connection between graphene's…