Klein tunneling in graphene: optics with massless electrons

PE Allain, JN Fuchs - The European Physical Journal B, 2011 - Springer
This article provides a pedagogical review on Klein tunneling in graphene, ie the peculiar
tunneling properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons. We consider two simple …

Single-layer and bilayer graphene superlattices: collimation, additional Dirac points and Dirac lines

M Barbier, P Vasilopoulos… - … Transactions of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review the energy spectrum and transport properties of several types of one-dimensional
superlattices (SLs) on single-layer and bilayer graphene. In single-layer graphene, for …

Electronic transport in graphene heterostructures

AF Young, P Kim - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2011 - annualreviews.org
The elementary excitations of monolayer graphene, which behave as massless Dirac
particles, make it a fascinating venue in which to study relativistic quantum phenomena. One …

Wave-packet dynamics and valley filter in strained graphene

A Chaves, L Covaci, KY Rakhimov, GA Farias… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
The time evolution of a wave packet in strained graphene is studied within the tight-binding
model and continuum model. The effect of an external magnetic field, as well as a strain …

Geometry and edge effects on the energy levels of graphene quantum rings: A comparison between tight-binding and simplified Dirac models

DR Da Costa, A Chaves, M Zarenia, JM Pereira Jr… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We present a systematic study of the energy spectra of graphene quantum rings having
different geometries and edge types in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field …

Current-voltage characteristics of Weyl semimetal semiconducting devices, Veselago lenses, and hyperbolic Dirac phase

RDY Hills, A Kusmartseva, FV Kusmartsev - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The current-voltage characteristics of a new range of devices built around Weyl semimetals
has been predicted using the Landauer formalism. The potential step and barrier have been …

Spin-dependent Klein tunneling in graphene: Role of Rashba spin-orbit coupling

MH Liu, J Bundesmann, K Richter - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2012 - APS
Within an effective Dirac theory the low-energy dispersions of monolayer graphene in the
presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin-degenerate bilayer graphene are …

Dual-gated bilayer graphene with layer mismatch

HM Abdullah, A El Mouhafid, G Shukla… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
One of the key features of graphene is the chirality of the electrons originating from the lattice
symmetry. Conservation of the chirality leads to Klein and anti-Klein tunneling in graphene …

Chirality-assisted electronic cloaking of confined states in bilayer graphene

N Gu, M Rudner, L Levitov - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We show that the strong coupling of pseudospin orientation and charge carrier motion in
bilayer graphene has a drastic effect on transport properties of ballistic pnp junctions …

Tunneling properties in lattices: Effects of symmetry-breaking terms

SM Cunha, DR da Costa, JM Pereira Jr, RNC Filho… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The α-T 3 lattice model interpolates a honeycomb (graphene-like) lattice and a T 3 (also
known as dice) lattice via the parameter α. These lattices are made up of three atoms per …