Quantum Transport in Novel 2D Materials and Structures (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 56
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Interests: graphene; quantum entanglement; superconductivity; condensed matter theory; 2D materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1980s, semiconductor heterostructures have enabled experimental verification of long-predicted quantum phenomena.
The advent of graphene and two-dimensional (2D) crystals has allowed even more precise study of such effects and led to new discoveries—chirality, evanescent-wave transport, valley degrees of freedom—as well as unique device functionalities (ambipolar doping, gate-tunable gaps, mechanical flexibility) absent in silicon electronics.
Recent advances in 2D materials include unconventional quantum Hall effects, topological phases (e.g., quantum spin Hall effect), violation of the Wiedemann–Franz law, and quantum transport in van der Waals heterostructures featuring moiré superlattices and correlated electron behavior.
For this Special Issue, we invite the contribution of research articles on charge, spin, and energy transport in 2D materials and related complex structures, covering fundamental principles, simulations, and experiments.
Prof. Dr. Adam Rycerz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- graphene
- silicene
- germanene
- transition metal dichalcogenides
- phosphorene
- 2D materials
- spintronics
- valleytronics
- nanotubes
- quantum transport
- Landauer–Buttiker formalism
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