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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

Due to its unique structure, graphene provides a condensed-matter model of particle physics phenomena. One is the critical charge which is highly interested. The investigation of critical charge in gapped graphene is performed within single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 A. A. Novoselov , O. V. Pavlovsky

Coulomb impurity of charge $Ze$ is known to destabilize the ground state of undoped graphene with respect to creation of screening space charge if $Z$ exceeds a critical value of $1/2\alpha$ set by material's fine structure constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

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

The effect of external static charging of graphene and its flakes are investigated by using first-principles calculations. While the Fermi level of negatively charged graphene rises and then is quickly pinned by the parabolic, nearly free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Mehmet Topsakal , Salim Ciraci

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 present a non-linear Thomas-Fermi theory which describes the electric charge screening in the system including two charged substrate layers separated by a few-layered graphene film. We show that by increasing the charge at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We analyze the screening of an external Coulomb charge in gapless graphene cone, which is taken as a prototype of a topological defect. In the subcritical regime, the induced charge is calculated using both the Green's function and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Baishali Chakraborty , Kumar S. Gupta , Siddhartha Sen

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

We demonstrate that in the presence of Coulomb interactions, electrons in graphene behave like a critical system, supporting power law correlations with interaction-dependent exponents. An asymptotic analysis shows that the origin of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-04 Jianhui Wang , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

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

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

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

The charge distribution induced by external fields in finite stacks of graphene planes, or in semiinfinite graphite is considered. The interlayer electronic hybridization is described by a nearest neighbor hopping term, and the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Guinea

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

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 study the intervalley scattering in defected graphene by low-temperature transport measurements. The scattering rate is strongly suppressed when defects are charged. This finding highlights "screening" of the short-range part of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Baoming Yan , Qi Han , Zhenzhao Jia , Jingjing Niu , Tuocheng Cai , Dapeng Yu , Xiaosong Wu

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

We address the problem of an unscreened Coulomb charge in graphene, and calculate the local density of states and displaced charge as a function of energy and distance from the impurity. This is done non-perturbatively in two different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-17 Vitor M. Pereira , Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the infrared conductivity of graphene at finite chemical potential and temperature taking into account the effect of phonons and disorder due to charged impurities and unitary scatterers. The screening of the long-range Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-16 N. M. R. Peres , T. Stauber , A. H. Castro Neto
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