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We used a quantum Monte Carlo method to study the magnetic impurity adatoms on graphene. We found that by tuning the chemical potential we could switch the values of the impurity's local magnet moment between relatively large and small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-05 F. M. Hu , Tianxing Ma , Hai-Qing Lin , J. E. Gubernatis

We study the low-energy electronic transport across periodic extended defects in graphene. In the continuum low-energy limit, such defects act as infinitesimally thin stripes separating two regions where Dirac Hamiltonian governs the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 J. N. B. Rodrigues , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

The impact of neutral impurity scattering of electrons on the charge drift mobility in high purity n-type germanium crystals at 77 Kelvin is investigated. We calculated the contributions from ionized impurity scattering, lattice scattering,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 H. Mei , G. -J. Wang , G. Yang , D. -M. Mei

We report on systematic study of electronic transport in low-biased, disordered graphene nanowires. We reveal the emergence of unipolar transport as the defect concentration increases beyond 0.3\% where an almost insulating behaviour is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Zakaria Moktadir , Shuojin Hang , Hiroshi Mizuta

We study the spin relaxation of charge carriers in graphene in the presence of spin-polarized charged impurities by calculating the time evolution of initially polarized state. The spin relaxation time shows completely different energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Ville Vierimaa , Zheyong Fan , Ari Harju

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

Electrons in two-dimensional graphene sheets behave as interacting chiral Dirac fermions and have unique screening properties due to their symmetry and reduced dimensionality. By using a combination of scanning tunneling spectroscopy…

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

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

Graphene has an unusual low-energy band structure with four chiral bands and half-quantized and quantized Hall effects that have recently attracted theoretical and experimental attention. We study the Fermi energy and disorder dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Sinitsyn , J. E. Hill , Hongki Min , Jairo Sinova , A. H. MacDonald

In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing phenomenon arises with the intrinsic charge transport behavior at the Dirac point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Xu Du

We present a study of transport in graphene devices on polar insulating substrates by solving the Bolzmann transport equation in the presence of graphene phonon, surface polar phonon, and Coulomb charged impurity scattering. The value of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

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

We revisit the problem of bound states in graphene under the influence of point electric monopole and dipole impurity potentials extended to the case in which the membrane of this material is uniformly and uniaxially strained, which leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , E. Díaz-Bautista , A. Raya , D. Valenzuela

Considering the interband correlation, we present a generalized multiple-scattering approach of Green's function to investigate the effects of electron-impurity scattering on the density of states in silicene. The reduction of energy gaps…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 S. Y. Liu , Y. C. Zeng , X. L. Lei

The main goal of our study was investigation of the influence of the deformations (sufficiently large for the establishing the non-zero gap) on electrotransport properties of impure graphene. To achieve this purpose, we implemented the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Igor Yu. Sagalianov , Yuriy I. Prylutskyy , Taras M. Radchenko , Valentyn A. Tatarenko

We have quantified substitutional impurity concentrations in synthetic diamond crystals down to sub parts-per-billion levels. The capture lifetimes of electrons and excitons injected by photoexcitation were compared for several samples with…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 Takaaki Shimomura , Yoshiki Kubo , Julien Barjon , Norio Tokuda , Ikuko Akimoto , Nobuko Naka

Motivated by recent graphene transport experiments, we have undertaken a numerical study of the conductivity of disordered two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions. Our results reveal distinct differences between the cases of short-range and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-30 Kentaro Nomura , A. H. MacDonald

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 theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 K. Kechedzhi , S. Das Sarma