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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

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 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

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

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

The interplay between a magnetic field and the Coulomb potential from a charged vacancy on the electron states in graphene is investigated within the tight-binding model. The Coulomb potential removes locally Landau level degeneracy, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Jing Wang , Wen-Sheng Zhao , Yue Hu , R. N. Costa Filho , Francois M. Peeters

Analytical solutions of the Coulomb impurity problem of graphene in the absence of a magnetic field show that when the dimensionless strength of the Coulomb potential $g$ reaches a critical value the solutions become supercritical with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang

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

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

Charge impurities in graphene can host an infinite family of Rydberg-like resonance states of massless Dirac particles. These states, appearing for supercritical charge, are described by Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization of collapsing classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-15 A. V. Shytov , M. I. Katsnelson , L. S. Levitov

We theoretically revisit graphene transport properties as a function of carrier density, taking into account possible correlations in the spatial distribution of the Coulomb impurity disorder in the environment. We find that the charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We formulate and solve the perhaps simplest two-body bound state problem for interacting Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions. A two-body bound state is predicted for gapped graphene monolayers in the presence of weakly repulsive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. De Martino , R. Egger

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 develop a field-theoretic approach to massless Dirac fermions in a supercritical Coulomb potential. By introducing an Aharonov--Bohm solenoid at the potential center, the critical Coulomb charge can be made arbitrarily small for one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Yusuke Nishida

In this work, we study the synergistic correlated states in two distinct types of interacting electronic systems coupled by interlayer Coulomb interactions. We propose that this scenario can be realized in a type of Coulomb-coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Xin Lu , Shihao Zhang , Yaning Wang , Xiang Gao , Kaining Yang , Zhongqing Guo , Yuchen Gao , Yu Ye , Zheng Vitto Han , Jianpeng Liu

Spatially separated electron systems remain strongly coupled by electron-electron interactions even when they cannot exchange particles, provided that the layer separation d is comparable to a characteristic distance l between charge…

We investigate the development of a gapped phase in the field theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. In the large-N approximation, we show that the chiral symmetry is only broken below a critical number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 J. Gonzalez

An expression for the density of a planar induced vacuum charge is obtained in a strong Coulomb potential in coordinate space. Treatment is based on a self-adjoint extension approach for constructing of the Green's function of a charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 V. R. Khalilov , I. V. Mamsurov

Screening of a large external charge in graphene is studied. The charge is assumed to be displaced away or smeared over a finite region of the graphene plane. The initial decay of the screened potential with distance is shown to follow the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 M. M. Fogler , D. S. Novikov , B. I. Shklovskii

We study the supercritical instability in gapped graphene with two charged impurities separated by distance R using the two-dimensional Dirac equation for electron quasiparticles. Attention is paid to a situation when charges of impurities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol