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Friedel oscillations, impurity scattering and temperature dependence of resistivity in graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We show that Friedel oscillations (FO) in grapehene are strongly affected by the chirality of electrons in this material. In particular, the FO of the charge density around an impurity show a faster, 1/r31/r^3, decay than in conventional 2D electron systems and do not contribute to a linear temperature-dependent correction to the resistivity. In contrast, the FO of the exchange field which surrounds atomically sharp defects breaking the hexagonal symmetry of the honeycomb lattice lead to a negative linear T dependence of the resistivity.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0608228,
  title  = {Friedel oscillations, impurity scattering and temperature dependence of resistivity in graphene},
  author = {Vadim V. Cheianov and Vladimir I. Fal'ko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0608228},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages LaTeX; a note added in conclusions concerning the RKKY interaction