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We consider the problem of screening of an electrically charged impurity in a clean graphene sheet. When electron-electron interactions are neglected, the screening charge has a sign opposite to that of the impurity, and is localized near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-29 Rudro R. Biswas , Subir Sachdev , Dam T. Son

We study the problem of Coulomb field-induced charging of the ground state in a system of 2D massive Dirac particles (gapped graphene). As in its 3D QED counterpart, the critical Coulomb coupling is renormalized to higher values, compared…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 Vitor M. Pereira , Valeri N. Kotov , A. H. Castro Neto

Analytical solutions of the Coulomb impurity problem of graphene in the absence of a magnetic field show that when the dimensionless strength of the Coulomb potential $g$ reaches a critical value the solutions become supercritical with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang

We review the physics of charged impurities in the vicinity of graphene. The long-range nature of Coulomb impurities affects both the nature of the ground state density profile as well as graphene's transport properties. We discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We study the physics of Dirac fermions in a gapped graphene monolayer containing two Coulomb impurities. For the case of equal impurity charges, we discuss the ground-state energy using the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 D. Klöpfer , A. De Martino , D. Matrasulov , R. Egger

We formulate and solve the perhaps simplest two-body bound state problem for interacting Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions. A two-body bound state is predicted for gapped graphene monolayers in the presence of weakly repulsive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. De Martino , R. Egger

The supercritical instability in a system of two identical charged impurities in gapped graphene described in the continuous limit by the two-dimensional Dirac equation has been studied. The case where the charge of each impurity is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-27 Oleksandr Sobol

We theoretically revisit graphene transport properties as a function of carrier density, taking into account possible correlations in the spatial distribution of the Coulomb impurity disorder in the environment. We find that the charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

Screening of charge impurities in graphene is analyzed using the exact solution for vacuum polarization obtained from the massless Dirac-Kepler problem. For the impurity charge below certain critical value no density perturbation is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-09 A. V. Shytov , M. I. Katsnelson , L. S. Levitov

The electronic energy spectrum of graphene electron subjected to a homogeneous magnetic field in the presence of a charged Coulomb impurity is studied analytically within two-dimensional Dirac-Weyl picture by using variational approach. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

We calculate exactly the vacuum polarization charge density in the field of a subcritical Coulomb impurity, $Z|e|/r$, in graphene. Our analysis is based on the exact electron Green's function, obtained by using the operator method, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-25 Ivan S. Terekhov , Alexander I. Milstein , Valeri N. Kotov , Oleg P. Sushkov

The modification of the quantum states in a Dice lattice due to a Coulomb impurity are investigated. The energy band structure of a pristine Dice lattice consists of a Dirac cone and a flat band at the Dirac point. We use the tight binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Jing Wang , R. Van Pottelberge , Wen-Sheng Zhao , François M. Peeters

We review the theoretical and experimental results connected with the electron states in two-dimensional Dirac systems paying a special attention to the atomic collapse in graphene. Two-electron bound states of a Coulomb impurity are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-15 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

The ground-state and the transport properties of graphene subject to the potential of in-plane charged impurities are studied. The screening of the impurity potential is shown to be nonlinear, producing a fractal structure of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 M. M. Fogler

In this paper, we numerically study the bound electron states induced by long range Coulomb impurity in gapped graphene and the quasi-bound states in supercritical region based on the lattice model. We present a detailed comparison between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. Zhu , M. L. Liang , Q. W. Shi , Z. F. Wang , J. Chen , J. G. Hou

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 address the problem of a Coulomb impurity in graphene in the presence of a perpendicular uniform magnetic field. We show that the problem can be solved below the supercritical impurity magnitude within the WKB approximation. Without…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-24 Yuhui Zhang , Yafis Barlas , Kun Yang

We study the distribution of vacuum polarization charge induced by a Coulomb impurity in massive graphene. By analytically computing the polarization function, we show that the charge density is distributed in space in a non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-22 Valeri N. Kotov , Vitor M. Pereira , Bruno Uchoa

We study Coulomb drag in double-layer graphene near the Dirac point. A particular emphasis is put on the case of clean graphene, with transport properties dominated by the electron-electron interaction. Using the quantum kinetic equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 M. Schütt , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. Titov , I. V. Gornyi , B. N. Narozhny , A. D. Mirlin

We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Kumar S. Gupta , Andjelo Samsarov , Siddhartha Sen
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