English
Related papers

Related papers: Electron waves in chemically substituted graphene

200 papers

We study the problem of the electron excitation spectrum in the presence of point-like and regularized Coulomb impurities in gapped graphene. To this end, we use the Dirac model and in the point-like case theory of self-adjoint extensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. I. Breev , R. Ferreira , D. M. Gitman , B. L. Voronov

We analyze the electronic properties of adatom doped graphene in the low impurity concentration regime. We focus on the Anderson localized regime and calculate the localization length ($\xi$) as a function of the electron doping and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Gonzalo Usaj , Pablo S. Cornaglia , C. A. Balseiro

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

We study the scattering of graphene quasiparticles by topological defects, represented by holes, pentagons and heptagons. For the case of holes, we obtain the phase shift and found that at low concentration they appear to be irrelevant for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-17 Jakson M. Fonseca , Winder A. Moura-Melo , Afranio R. Pereira

We start with the silicene or germanene single-particle Hamiltonian in buckled 2D hexagonal lattices expressed in terms of Dirac matrices in the Weyl basis. The Hamiltonian of these systems comprises of the Dirac kinetic energy, a mass gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Partha Goswami

Graphene research is currently one of the largest fields in condensed matter. Due to its unusual electronic spectrum with Dirac-like quasiparticles, and the fact that it is a unique example of a metallic membrane, graphene has properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-22 Antonio H. Castro Neto

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Resonant scattering at the atomic absorbates in graphene was investigated recently in relation with the transport and gap opening problems. Attaching an impurity atom to graphene is believed to lead to the creation of unusual zero energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 P. G. Silvestrov

We discuss the effect of elastic deformations on the electronic properties of bilayer graphene membranes. Distortions of the lattice translate into fictitious gauge fields in the electronic Dirac Hamiltonian which are explicitly derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Eros Mariani , Alexander J. Pearce , Felix von Oppen

At low energy, electrons in doped graphene sheets behave like massless Dirac fermions with a Fermi velocity which does not depend on carrier density. Here we show that modulating a two-dimensional electron gas with a long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 M. Gibertini , A. Singha , V. Pellegrini , M. Polini , G. Vignale , A. Pinczuk , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The effective interaction between resonant magnetic Anderson impurities in graphene, mediated by conduction electrons, is studied as a function of the strength of the onsite energy level of the impurities and the amplitude of coupling to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Agarwal , E. G. Mishchenko

We reveal a new type of supercritical behavior in gapped graphene with two oppositely charged impurities by studying the two-dimensional Dirac equation for quasiparticles with the Coulomb potential regularized at small distances accounting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-14 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

3D topological insulators, similar to the Dirac material graphene, host linearly dispersing states with unique properties and a strong potential for applications. A key, missing element in realizing some of the more exotic states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yoshinori Okada , Wenwen Zhou , D. Walkup , Chetan Dhital , S. D. Wilson , V. Madhavan

Twisted graphene bilayers show a complex electronic structure, further modified by interaction effects. The main features can be obtained from effective models, which make use a few phenomenological parameters. We analyze the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We present a calculation of the modulation in the Local Density Of electronic States (LDOS) caused by an impurity in graphene in the presence of external magnetic field. We focus on the spatial Fourier Transform (FT) of this modulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Rudro R. Biswas , A. V. Balatsky

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

Defects in graphene are of crucial importance for its electronic and magnetic properties. Here impurity effects on the electronic structure of surrounding carbon atoms are considered and the distribution of the local densities of states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 T. O. Wehling , A. V. Balatsky , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein , K. Scharnberg , R. Wiesendanger

The electron scattering by the short-range defects in the monolayer graphene is considered in the framework of the flatland model. We analyze the effect of this scattering on the electronic resistivity of the monolayer graphene (direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 N Firsova , S Ktitorov

We study the optical conductivity of a doped graphene when a sublattice symmetry breaking is occurred in the presence of the electron-phonon interaction. Our study is based on the Kubo formula that is established upon the retarded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kh. Jahanbani , Reza Asgari

Unitary limit for model point scatterers in graphene is known to reveal low-energy resonances. The same limit could be achieved from hybridization of band electrons with the localized impurity level positioned in the vicinity of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 V. V. Mkhitaryan , E. G. Mishchenko