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Few-layer graphene possesses low-energy carriers which behave as massive fermions, exhibiting intriguing properties in both transport and light scattering experiments. Lowering the excitation energy of resonance Raman spectroscopy down to…

We review the problem of electron-electron interactions in graphene. Starting from the screening of long range interactions in these systems, we discuss the existence of an emerging Dirac liquid of Lorentz invariant quasi-particles in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Valeri N. Kotov , Bruno Uchoa , Vitor M. Pereira , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

By employing the first-principles GW-Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) simulation, we obtain, for the first time, the accurate quasiparticle (QP) band gap, optical absorption spectra and their dependence on the gate field of gated bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yufeng Liang , Li Yang

We construct two types of multi-layer quantum graphs (Schr\"odinger operators on metric graphs) for which the dispersion function of wave vector and energy is proved to be a polynomial in the dispersion function of the single layer. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Lee Fisher , Wei Li , Stephen P. Shipman

Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene on its electron dispersion relations close to K point. It was shown that for both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Stanisław Krukowski , Jakub Sołtys , Jolanta Borysiuk , Jacek Piechota

Epitaxial graphene, grown on SiC(0001) surface, has been widely studied both experimentally and theoretically. It was found that first epitaxial graphene layer in such structures is a buffer layer i.e. there are no characteristic Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 Jakub Soltys , Jacek Piechota , Michal Lopuszynski , Stanislaw Krukowski

We calculate $\partial\mu/\partial n$ in extrinsic graphene as a function of carrier density $n$ at zero temperature by obtaining the electronic self-energy within the Hartree-Fock approximation. The exchange-driven Dirac-point logarithmic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma

Density functional theory (DFT) and many body perturbation theory at the G$_0$W$_0$ level are employed to study the electronic properties of polythiophene (PT) adsorbed on graphene surface. Analysis of charge density difference shows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 F. Marsusi , I. A. Fedorov , S. Gerivani

Diagrammatic perturbation theory is a powerful tool for the investigation of interacting many-body systems, the self-energy operator $\Sigma$ encoding all the variety of scattering processes. In the simplest scenario of correlated electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 Y. Pavlyukh , G. Stefanucci , R. van Leeuwen

We show that, at sufficiently large strength of the long-range Coulomb interaction, a mass term breaking parity (so-called Haldane mass) is dynamically generated in the many-body theory of Dirac fermions describing the graphene layer. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Gonzalez

In this paper, we analytically investigate the electronic structure of Bernal stacking (AB stacking) graphene evolving from monolayer (a zero-gap semiconductor with a linear Dirac-like spectrum around the Fermi energy) to multi-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. F. Wang , Huaixiu Zheng , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

We report on resonance Raman spectroscopy measurements with excitation photon energy down to 1.16 eV on graphene, to study how low-energy carriers interact with lattice vibrations. Thanks to the excitation energy close to the Dirac point at…

In a vicinity of the Fermi surface, graphene layers with bandgaps allow for closely simulating the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics and, thus, its yet unverified strong-field phenomenology with accessible field strengths. This striking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Ibrahim Akal , Reinhold Egger , Carsten Müller , Selym Villalba-Chávez

We reveal that optical saturation of the low-energy states takes place in graphene for arbitrarily weak electromagnetic fields. This effect originates from the diverging field-induced interband coupling at the Dirac point. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Behrooz Semnani , Roland Jago , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini , Amir Hamed Majedi , Ermin Malic , Philippe Tassin

We present ab initio calculations of the bandstructure of graphene and of short zigzag graphene nanoribbons by the screened-exchange-LDA method (sX-LDA) within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). The inclusion of non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Roland Gillen , John Robertson

We demonstrate that the plasmon frequency and Drude weight of the electron liquid in a doped graphene sheet are strongly renormalized by electron-electron interactions even in the long-wavelength limit. This effect is not captured by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Saeed H. Abedinpour , G. Vignale , A. Principi , Marco Polini , Wang-Kong Tse , A. H. MacDonald

We propose an alternative formulation of Many-Body Perturbation Theory that uses the density-functional concept. Instead of the usual four-point integral equation for the polarizability, we obtain a two-point one, that leads to excellent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-01 Fabien Bruneval , Francesco Sottile , Valerio Olevano , Rodolfo Del Sole , Lucia Reining

Several widely used methods for the calculation of band structures and photo emission spectra, such as the GW approximation, rely on Many-Body Perturbation Theory. They can be obtained by iterating a set of functional differential equations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-31 Giovanna Lani , Pina Romaniello , Lucia Reining

Many-body calculations of the total energy of interacting Dirac electrons in finite graphene samples exhibit joint occurrence of cusps at angular momenta corresponding to fractional fillings characteristic of formation of incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman