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Pristine monolayer graphene exhibits very poor screening because the density of states vanishes at the Dirac point. As a result, charge relaxation is controlled by the effects of zero-point motion (rather than by the Coulomb interaction)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

We calculate the average single particle density of states in graphene with disorder due to impurity potentials. For unscreened short-ranged impurities, we use the non-self-consistent and self-consistent Born and $T$-matrix approximations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-18 Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The Coulomb impurity problem of graphene, in the absence of a magnetic field, displays discrete scale invariance. Applying a magnetic field introduces a new magnetic length scale $\ell$ and breaks discrete scale invariance. Moreover, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Hoang-Anh Le , S. -R. Eric Yang

In the low-energy two-band as well as four-band continuum models, we study the supercritical instability in gapped bilayer graphene in the field of a charged impurity. It is found that the screening effects are crucially important in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 D. O. Oriekhov , O. O. Sobol , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

The screening problem for the Coulomb potential of a charge located in a two-dimensional (2D) system has an intriguing solution with a power law distance screening factor due to out-of-plane electrical fields. This is crucially different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 K. A. Baryshnikov , A. V. Gert , Yu. B. Vasilyev , A. P. Dmitriev

We study the problem of two Dirac particles interacting through non-relativistic potentials and confined to a two-dimensional sheet, which is the relevant case for graphene layers. The two-body problem cannot be mapped into that of a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 J. Sabio , F. Sols , F. Guinea

Introducing quasiparticle anisotropy in graphene via uniaxial strain has a profound effect on the polarization charge density induced by external impurities, both Coulomb and short-range. In particular, the charge distribution induced by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Sang Wook Kim , Juan M. Vanegas , Valeri N. Kotov

The response of Dirac fermions to a Coulomb potential is predicted to differ significantly from the behavior of non-relativistic electrons seen in traditional atomic and impurity systems. Surprisingly, many key theoretical predictions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Yang Wang , Victor W. Brar , Andrey V. Shytov , Qiong Wu , William Regan , Hsin-Zon Tsai , Alex Zettl , Leonid S. Levitov , Michael F. Crommie

It is well known that there are resonant states with complex energy for the supercritical Coulomb impurity in graphene. We show that opening of a quasiparticle gap decreases the imaginary part of energy, |ImE|, of these states and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 O. V. Gamayun , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

We study Friedel oscillations in a two-dimensional non-interacting electron gas and in a monolayer graphene in the presence of a single impurity. The potential generated by the impurity is modeled using a non-Coulomb interaction ($\sim…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Levente Máthé , Ioan Grosu

We study the combined effect of a conical topological defect and a Coulomb charge impurity on the dynamics of Dirac fermions in gapped graphene. Beyond a certain strength of the Coulomb charge, quantum instability sets in, which demarcates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Baishali Chakraborty , Kumar S. Gupta , Siddhartha Sen

The low energy excitations of graphene can be described by a massless Dirac equation in two spacial dimensions. Curved graphene is proposed to be described by coupling the Dirac equation to the corresponding curved space. This covariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria A. H. Vozmediano , Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo

We review the problem of electron-electron interactions in graphene. Starting from the screening of long range interactions in these systems, we discuss the existence of an emerging Dirac liquid of Lorentz invariant quasi-particles in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Valeri N. Kotov , Bruno Uchoa , Vitor M. Pereira , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

In this paper, we numerically study a Coulomb impurity problem for interacting Dirac fermions restricted in disordered graphene quantum dots. In the presence of randomly distributed lattice defects and spatial potential fluctuations, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Mustafa Polat , A. D. Güçlü

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

It is shown that a ``vacuum polarization'' induced by Coulomb potential in graphene leads to a strong suppression of electric charges even for undoped case (no charge carriers). A standard linear response theory is therefore not applicable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

We study massless Dirac fermions in a supercritical Coulomb potential with the emphasis on that its low-energy physics is universal and parametrized by a single quantity per supercritical angular momentum channel. This low-energy parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Yusuke Nishida

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

We provide detailed calculation of the a.c. conductivity in the case of 1/r-Coulomb interacting massless Dirac particles in graphene in the collisionless limit when \omega >> T. The analysis of the electron self-energy, current vertex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 Vladimir Juricic , Oskar Vafek , Igor F. Herbut

We present a quantum analysis of the massless excitations in graphene with a charge impurity. When the effective charge exceeds a certain critical value, the spectrum is quantized and is unbounded from below. The corresponding eigenstates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Kumar S. Gupta , Siddhartha Sen