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Motivated by recent studies reporting the formation of localized magnetic moments in doped graphene, we investigate the energetic cost for spin polarizing isolated impurities embedded in this material. When a well-known criterion for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Venezuela , R. B. Muniz , A. T. Costa , D. M. Edwards , S. R. Power , M. S. Ferreira

In the theory of dilute magnetic impurities in superconductors, the effect of all impurity spin-components is expressed via a single magnetic scattering rate $\Gamma_\mathrm{m}$. In a more realistic setting, magnetic impurities are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 David Möckli , Menashe Haim , Maxim Khodas

By using Fourier-transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy we measure the interference patterns produced by the impurity scattering of confined Dirac quasiparticles in epitaxial graphene nanoflakes. Upon comparison of the experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Julia Tesch , Philipp Leicht , Felix Blumenschein , Luca Gragnaniello , Anders Bergvall , Tomas Löfwander , Mikhail Fonin

In conventional s-wave superconductors, only magnetic impurities exhibit impurity bound states, whereas for an s+- order parameter they can occur for both magnetic and non-magnetic impurities. Impurity bound states in superconductors can…

We theoretically investigate the impurity levels and exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in graphene driven by an off-resonant circularly polarized light field. Our analysis captures the non-perturbative effects resulting from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Modi Ke , Wang-Kong Tse

We study the problem of impurities and mid-gap states in a biased graphene bilayer. We show that the properties of the bound states, such as localization lengths and binding energies, can be controlled externally by an electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

We consider the problem of electron energy states related to strongly localized potential of a single impurity in graphene. Our model simulates the effect of impurity atom substituting the atom of carbon, on the energy spectrum of electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 M Inglot , V K Dugaev

We review recent developments in our understanding of how impurities influence the electronic states in the bulk of superconductors. Our focus is on the quasi-localized states in the vicinity of impurity sites in conventional and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Balatsky , I. Vekhter , Jian-Xin Zhu

We consider an effect of weak impurities on electronic properties of graphene within the functional renormalization-group approach. The energy dependences of the electronic self-energy and density of states near the neutrality point are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-10 A. Katanin

We study theoretically the effects of short-range electron-electron interactions on the electronic structure of graphene, in the presence of single substitutional impurities. Our computational approach is based on the $\pi$ orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Faluke Aikebaier , Anna Pertsova , Carlo M. Canali

We study a single impurity effect on the local density of states in a d-wave superconductor accounting for the momentum-dependent impurity potential. We show that the anisotropy of the scattering potential can alter significantly the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Pisarski , G. Haran

We numerically study the effect of non-magnetic impurities on the vortex bound states in noncentrosymmetric systems. The local density of states (LDOS) around a vortex is calculated by means of the quasiclassical Green's function method. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-05 Yoichi Higashi , Yuki Nagai , Nobuhiko Hayashi

Effects of impurities and disorder on transport properties by electronic quasiparticles in superconducting iron pnictides are theoretically considered. The most prominent new features compared to the case of pure material should appear at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-08 Yuriy G. Pogorelov , Mario C. Santos , Vadim M. Loktev

We report a detailed analytic investigation of the interplay between size quantization and local scattering centers in armchair graphene nanoribbons, as seen in the conductance. The scattering property of a local scattering center is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Anders Bergvall , Tomas Lofwander

Altermagnetic superconductors offer the possibility of exploring unconventional superconductivity, including topological states and finite-momentum superconductivity, with promising applications in spintronics and quantum information.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-22 Andrea Maiani , Rubén Seoane Souto

We study the problem of non-magnetic impurities adsorbed on bilayer graphene in the diluted regime. We analyze the impurity spectral densities for various concentrations and gate fields. We also analyze the effect of the adsorbate on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Qualitative differences in the spectrum of a superconductor near magnetic impurity pairs with moments aligned parallel and antiparallel are derived. A proposal is made for a new, nonmagnetic scanning tunneling spectroscopy of magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael E. Flatte , David E. Reynolds

We present a study of different models of local disorder in graphene. Our focus is on the main effects that vacancies -- random, compensated and uncompensated --, local impurities and substitutional impurities bring into the electronic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-03-25 Vitor M. Pereira , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto

The electronic properties of low-dimensional materials can be engineered by doping, but in the case of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) the proximity of two symmetry-breaking edges introduces an additional dependence on the location of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 S. R. Power , V. M. de Menezes , S. B. Fagan , M. S. Ferreira

Considering the interband correlation, we present a generalized multiple-scattering approach of Green's function to investigate the effects of electron-impurity scattering on the density of states in silicene. The reduction of energy gaps…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 S. Y. Liu , Y. C. Zeng , X. L. Lei