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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…

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We evaluate the autocorrelation function of the electrostatic potential in doped graphene due to nearby charged impurities. The screening of those impurities is described by a combination of the polarization function for graphene in random…

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We present calculations of the thermal and electric linear response in graphene, including disorder in the self-consistent t-matrix approximation. For strong impurity scattering, near the unitary limit, the formation of a band of impurity…

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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

Conductivity of a disorder-free intrinsic graphene is studied to the first order in the long-range Coulomb interaction and is found to be \sigma=\sigma_0(1+0.01 g), where 'g' is the dimensionless ("fine structure") coupling constant. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 E. G. Mishchenko

We demonstrate theoretically that most of the observed transport properties of graphene sheets at zero magnetic field can be explained by scattering from charged impurities. We find that, contrary to common perception, these properties are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

It is demonstrated that there is a characteristic impurity concentration, at which variation with concentration and overall appearance of the local density of states at the impurity site in graphene are changing their behavior. Features…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V. Skrypnyk , Vadim M. Loktev

This work analyses how impurities and vacancies on the surface of a graphene sample affect its optical conductivity and plasmon excitations. The disorder is analysed in the self-consistent Green's function formulation and nonlocal effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Giovanni Viola , Tobias Wenger , Jari Kinaret , Mikael Fogelström

We reduce the dimensionless interaction strength in graphene by adding a water overlayer in ultra-high vacuum, thereby increasing dielectric screening. The mobility limited by long-range impurity scattering is increased over 30 percent, due…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-06 C. Jang , S. Adam , J. -H. Chen , E. D. Williams , S. Das Sarma , M. S. Fuhrer

The full counting statistics for the charge transport through an undoped graphene sheet in the presence of strong potential impurities is studied. Treating the scattering off the impurity in the s-wave approximation, we calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Titov , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. Schuessler , A. D. Mirlin

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

We present the complete formalism that describes scattering in graphene at low-energies. We begin by analyzing the real-space free Green's function matrix, and its analytical expansions at low-energy, carefully incorporating the discrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Cristina Bena

We study theoretically the physical properties of a magnetic impurity in graphene. Within the Anderson model for a very strong Coulomb interaction on the impurity, we start from the Slave-Boson method and introduce a topological picture…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

Unique electronic band structure of graphene with its semi-metallic features near the charge neutrality point is sensitive to impurity effects. Using the Lifshitz and Anderson impurity models, we study in detail the disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Yuriy G. Pogorelov , Vadim M. Loktev , Denis Kochan

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

Using the self-consistent Born approximation to the Dirac fermions under finite-range impurity scatterings, we show that the current-current correlation function is determined by four-coupled integral equations. This is very different from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-10 Xin-Zhong Yan , Yousef Romiah , C. S. Ting

We argue that the unscreened Coulomb interaction in graphene provides a positive, universal, and logarithmic correction to scaling of zero-temperature conductivity with frequency. The combined effect of the disorder due to wrinkling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 Igor F. Herbut , Vladimir Juricic , Oskar Vafek

We study rectangular graphene flakes using mean field states as the basis for a configuration interaction calculation, which allows us to analyze the low lying electronic excited states including electron correlations beyond the mean field…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-18 Z. S. Sadeq , Rodrigo A. Muniz , J. E. Sipe

The conductivity of graphene samples with various levels of disorder is investigated for a set of specimens with mobility in the range of $1-20\times10^3$ cm$^2$/V sec. Comparing the experimental data with the theoretical transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-02 Y. -W. Tan , Y. Zhang , K. Bolotin , Y. Zhao , S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma , H. L. Stormer , P. Kim

We study the Dirac equation for quasiparticles in gapped graphene with two oppositely charged impurities by using the technique of linear combination of atomic orbitals and variational Galerkin--Kantorovich method. We show that for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-03 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol