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We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

Graphitic nitrogen-doped graphene is an excellent platform to study scattering processes of massless Dirac fermions by charged impurities, in which high mobility can be preserved due to the absence of lattice defects through direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Jiayu Li , Li Lin , Dingran Rui , Qiucheng Li , Jincan Zhang , Ning Kang , Yanfeng Zhang , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

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, $1/r^3$, decay than in conventional 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim V. Cheianov , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We probe the local inhomogeneities of the electronic properties of graphene at the nanoscale using scanning probe microscopy techniques. First, we focus on the study of the electronic inhomogeneities caused by the graphene-substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 A. Castellanos-Gomez , Arramel , M. Wojtaszek , R. H. M. Smit , N. Tombros , N. Agraït , B. J. van Wees , G. Rubio-Bollinger

We study the effects that ripples induce on the electrical and magnetic properties of graphene. The variation of the interatomic distance created by the ripples translates in a modulation of the hopping parameter between carbon atoms. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 M. Pilar López-Sancho , Luis Brey

Undoped graphene is semi-metallic and thus not suitable for many electronic and optoelectronic applications requiring gapped semiconductor materials. However, a periodic array of holes (antidot lattice) renders graphene semiconducting with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-24 Thomas G. Pedersen , Christian Flindt , Jesper Pedersen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Niels Asger Mortensen , Kjeld Pedersen

We study the band dispersion of graphene with randomly distributed structural defects using two complementary methods, exact diagonalization of the tight-binding Hamiltonian and implementing a self-consistent T matrix approximation. We…

Starting from the Luttinger-Ward functional we derive an expression for the oscillatory part of the grand potential of a two dimensional Dirac system in a magnetic field. We perform the computation for the clean and the disordered system,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Carolin Kueppersbusch , Lars Fritz

In this communication we present together four distinct techniques for the study of electronic structure of solids : the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbitals (TB-LMTO), the real space and augmented space recursions and the modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Banasree Sadhukhan , Arabinda Nayak , Abhijit Mookerjee

Heavily doping graphene by intercalation can raise its Fermi level near an extended van Hove singularity, potentially inducing correlated electronic phases. Intercalation also modifies the band structure: dopants may hybridize with carbon…

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

The recent experimental observations of designer Dirac Fermions and topological phases in molecular graphene are addressed theoretically. Using scattering theory we calculate the electronic structure of finite lattices of scattering centers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-18 H. Hammar , P. Berggren , J. Fransson

Chemically doped graphene could support plasmon excitations up to telecommunication or even visible frequencies. Apart from that, the presence of dopant may influence electron scattering mechanisms in graphene and thus impact the plasmon…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-06 Dino Novko

We discuss various scattering mechanisms for Dirac fermions in single-layer graphene. It is shown that scattering on a short-range potential (due to, for example, neutral impurities) is mostly irrelevant for electronic quality of graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-06 M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

Various types of topological defects in graphene are considered in the framework of the continuum model for long-wavelength electronic excitations, which is based on the Dirac--Weyl equation. The condition for the electronic wave function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-04 Yu. A. Sitenko , N. D. Vlasii

We study the Dirac equation for quasiparticles in gapped graphene with two oppositely charged impurities by using the technique of linear combination of atomic orbitals and variational Galerkin--Kantorovich method. We show that for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-03 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

The electric conductance of a strip of undoped graphene increases in the presence of a disorder potential, which is smooth on atomic scales. The phenomenon is attributed to impurity-assisted resonant tunneling of massless Dirac fermions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Titov

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Asgari , M. M. Vazifeh , M. R. Ramezanali , E. Davoudi , B. Tanatar

In this review we highlight recent theoretical and experimental work on sublattice asymmetric doping of impurities in graphene, with a focus on substitutional Nitrogen dopants. It is well known that one current limitation of graphene in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira

Electron scattering in the monolayer graphene with short-range impurities modelled by the annular well with a band-asymmetric potential has been considered. Band-asymmetry of the potential resulted in the mass (gap) perturbation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov