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Effect of disorder on the ground-state properties of graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We calculate the ground-state energy of Dirac electrons in graphene in the presence of disorder. We take randomly distributed charged impurities at a fixed distance from the graphene sheet and surface fluctuations (ripples) as the main scattering mechanisms. Mode-coupling approach to scattering rate and random-phase approximation for ground-state energy incorporating the many-body interactions and the disorder effects yields good agreement with experimental inverse compressibility.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3511,
  title  = {Effect of disorder on the ground-state properties of graphene},
  author = {R. Asgari and M. M. Vazifeh and M. R. Ramezanali and E. Davoudi and B. Tanatar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3511},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Extended introduction and discussion. To appear in Phys. Rev. B