English
Related papers

Related papers: Electronic Structure in Gapped Graphene with Coulo…

200 papers

In a recent publication [Phys. Rev. B $\textbf{89}$, 155403 (2014)], the authors investigated the spectrum of a Coulomb impurity in graphene in the presence of magnetic and electric fields using the coupled series expansion approach. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 R. Van Pottelberge , M. Zarenia , F. M. Peeters

We show that the changes in the electronic density of states (DOS) in graphene induced by impurity scattering with short-range potentials are completely different from those caused by the long-range Coulomb potential. The spectral weight of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 Stepan Grinek , Zhou Li , Jie Chen , Qinwei Shi , Frank Marsiglio

For atomic thin layer insulating materials we provide an exact analytic form of the two-dimensional screened potential. In contrast to three-dimensional systems where the macroscopic screening can be described by a static dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Pierluigi Cudazzo , Ilya V. Tokatly , Angel Rubio

We compare the conductance of an undoped graphene sheet with a small region subject to an electrostatic gate potential for the cases that the dynamics in the gated region is regular (disc-shaped region) and classically chaotic (stadium).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 J. H. Bardarson , M. Titov , P. W. Brouwer

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

Since its discovery in 2004, graphene, a two-dimensional hexagonal carbon allotrope, has generated great interest and spurred research activity from materials science to particle physics and vice versa. In particular, graphene has been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-03 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde , Eero Tölö

We study the ground-state properties of a double layer graphene system with the Coulomb interlayer electron-electron interaction modeled within the random phase approximation. We first obtain an expression of the quantum capacitance of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 Fariborz Parhizgar , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Reza Asgari

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

In this paper, we perform a systematic study on the electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of the hexagonal graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with armchair edges in the presence of a charged impurity using two different configurations:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mustafa Polat , Hâldun Sevinçli , A. D. Güçlü

Using the tight-binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions between electrons, we study some of the electronic properties of graphene. The Coulomb interactions are treated with the renormalized-ring-diagram approximation. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-09 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

The electrical conductivity of graphene with a nonzero mass-gap parameter is investigated starting from the first principles of quantum electrodynamics in (2+1)-dimensional space-time at any temperature. The formalism of the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

Recent optical conductivity experiments of doped graphene in the infrared regime reveal a strong background in the energy region between the intra and interband transitions difficult to explain within conventional pictures. We propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Adolfo G. Grushin , Belen Valenzuela , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the energy spectrum, wave functions, and local density of states of an electrical dipole placed on a sheet of gapped graphene as function of the charge strength Z{\alpha} for different sizes of the dipole and for different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 R. Van Pottelberge , B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

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

We report on Hybrid-Monte-Carlo simulations of the tight-binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions for the electronic properties of graphene. We investigate the spontaneous breaking of sublattice symmetry corresponding to a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-05-28 Dominik Smith , Lorenz von Smekal

We investigate the effect of on-site Coulomb repulsion $U$ on the band gap of the electrically gated bilayer graphene by employing coherent potential approximation in the paramagnetic state, based on an ionic two-layer Hubbard model. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-17 Jin-Rong Xu , Ze-Yi Song , Hai-Qing Lin , Yu-Zhong Zhang

The dynamics of symmetry breaking responsible for lifting the degeneracy of the Landau levels in the integer quantum Hall effect in graphene is studied in a low-energy model with the Coulomb interaction. The gap equation for Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

Localized magnetic moments have been predicted to develop in graphene samples with vacancies or adsorbates. The interplay between such magnetic impurities and graphene's Dirac quasiparticles leads to remarkable many-body phenomena, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

We investigate integer and half-integer filling states (uniform and unidimensional stripe states respectively) for graphene using the Hartree-Fock approximation. For fixed filling factor, the ratio between the scales of the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Jianhui Wang , A. Iyengar , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey