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Potential fluctuations in graphene due to correlated charged impurities in substrate

Materials Science 2013-10-25 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We evaluate the autocorrelation function of the electrostatic potential in doped graphene due to nearby charged impurities. The screening of those impurities is described by a combination of the polarization function for graphene in random phase approximation with the electrostatic Green's function of the surrounding dielectrics. Using the hard-disk model for a two-dimensional distribution of impurities, we show that large correlation lengths between impurities can give rise to anti-correlation in the electrostatic potential, in agreement with recent experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1310.4881,
  title  = {Potential fluctuations in graphene due to correlated charged impurities in substrate},
  author = {Rastko Anicic and Zoran Miskovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4881},
  year   = {2013}
}

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To be published in to Applied Physics Letters