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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…

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Graphene is an ideal platform to study many-body effects due to its semimetallic character and the possibility to dope it over a wide range. Here we study the width of graphene's occupied $\pi$-band as a function of doping using…

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We present a computational study of the two-phonon Raman spectra of silicene and graphene within a density-functional non-orthogonal tight-binding model. Due to the presence of linear bands close to the Fermi energy in the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Valentin N. Popov , Philippe Lambin

Using a general symmetry-based approach, we provide a classification of generic miniband structures for electrons in graphene placed on substrates with the hexagonal Bravais symmetry. In particular, we identify conditions at which the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 J. R. Wallbank , A. A. Patel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , A. K. Geim , V. I. Fal'ko

We study the orbital effect of a strong magnetic field parallel to the layers on the energy spectrum of the Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer and multilayers, including graphite. We consider the minimal model with the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

Graphene, a two-dimensional crystal made of carbon atoms, provides a new and unexpected bridge between low and high-energy physics. The field has evolved very fast and very good reviews are already available in the literature. Graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alberto Cortijo , Francisco Guinea , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

This paper is devoted to development of perturbation theory for studying the properties of graphene sheet of finite size, at nonzero temperature and chemical potential. The perturbation theory is based on the tight-binding Hamiltonian and…

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The outstanding electrical and optical properties of graphene make it an excellent alternative as a transparent electrode. Here we demonstrate the application of graphene as collector material in internal photoemission (IPE) spectroscopy;…

We report on a theoretical study of the influence of electron-electron interactions on ARPES spectra in graphene that is based on the random-phase-approximation and on graphene's massless Dirac equation continuum model. We find that level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-03 Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , Giovanni Borghi , Yafis Barlas , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. H. MacDonald

We numerically investigate quantum rings in graphene and find that their electronic properties may be strongly influenced by the geometry, the edge symmetries and the structure of the corners. Energy spectra are calculated for different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-16 D. A. Bahamon , A. L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

The electronic properties of a material depend on the spatial freedom of the electron wavefunction. A well-known example is graphite, which is a conventional gapless semiconductor, while a single layer of it, graphene, exhibits extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammadamir Bazrafshan , Thomas. D. Kühne

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

Very recently, the standard description of electrons in strained graphene has been completed by the explicit inclusion of the lattice deformation. Here, the effect of these lattice corrections is taken into account to find the mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 M. Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo G. Naumis

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

We present numerical and analytical results for the lifetime of emitters in close proximity to graphene sheets. Specifically, we analyze the contributions from different physical channels that participate in the decay processes. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-22 Julia FM Werra , Peter Krüger , Kurt Busch , Francesco Intravaia

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

The spectrum of electron-phonon complexes in a monolayer graphene is investigated in the presence of a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. Despite the small electron-phonon coupling, usual perturbation theory is inapplicable for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 J. Zhu , S. M. Badalyan , F. Peeters

The electronic structure in the vicinity of the 1-heptagonal and 1-pentagonal defects in the carbon graphene plane is investigated. Using a continuum gauge field-theory model the local density of states around the Fermi energy is calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 J. Smotlacha , R. Pincak , M. Pudlak

We investigate theoretically the interplay between the effects of a perpendicular electric field and incommensurability at the interface on the electronic properties of a heterostructure of bilayer graphene and a semiconducting substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

The electronic spectrum of sheets of graphite (plane honeycomb lattice) folded into regular polihedra is studied. A continuum limit valid for sufficiently large molecules and based on a tight binding approximation is derived. It is found…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. González , F. Guinea , M. A. H. Vozmediano