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We present calculations of the quasiparticle energies and band gaps of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) carried out using a first-principles many-electron Green's function approach within the GW approximation. Because of the quasi-one-dimension…

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The problem of electrostatic screening of a charged line by undoped or weakly doped graphene is treated beyond the linear-response theory. The induced electron density is found to be approximately doping independent, n(x)~(log x)^2/x^2, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Michael M. Fogler

Electron-phonon interaction and phonon frequencies of doped polar semiconductors are sensitive to long-range Coulomb forces and can be strongly affected by screening effects of free carriers, the latter changing significantly when…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Francesco Macheda , Thibault Sohier , Paolo Barone , Francesco Mauri

We investigate the effect of electron- $\mathrm{A}_{1g}$ phonon coupling on the gapless electronic band dispersion of the pristine graphene. The electron-phonon interaction is introduced through a Kekul\'{e}-type distortion giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

The coupling of electrons to phonons (electron-phonon coupling) is crucial for the existence of various phases of matter, in particular superconductivity and density waves. Here, we devise a theory that incorporates the quantum geometry of…

Significant excitonic effects were observed in graphene by measuring its optical conductivity in a broad spectral range including the two-dimensional {\pi}-band saddle-point singularities in the electronic structure. The strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

We calculate, within the leading-order dynamical-screening approximation, the electron self-energy and spectral function at zero temperature for extrinsic (or gated/doped) graphene. We also calculate hot carrier inelastic scattering due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma

The wave equation describing the interaction of two electrons in graphene at arbitrary value of the Fermi energy $E_F$ is derived. For the solutions of this equation, we have found the explicit forms of the density and the current which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 A. I. Milstein , I. S. Terekhov

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) can exhibit a range of spectacular phenomena such as the Klein-tunneling-induced quasibound states1-6 and Berry-phase-tuned energy spectra7-15. According to previous studies, all these interesting quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Hui-Ying Ren , Ya-Ning Ren , Qi Zheng , Jia-Qi He , Lin He

Electron-phonon coupling in atoms and molecules adsorbed at metal surfaces gives rise to finite vibrational linewidths in infrared or electron energy loss spectra. When it is the dominant contribution to the vibrational lifetime, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-09 Nils Hertl , Connor L. Box , Reinhard J. Maurer

The effects of the electron-electron interactions in a graphene layer are investigated. It is shown that short range couplings are irrelevant, and scale towards zero at low energies, due to the vanishing of density of states at the Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , M. A. H. Vozmediano

The graphene-insulator-semiconductor-structured electron source has garnered significant attention due to its high electron emission efficiency and highly monochromatic electron emission. Graphene, with its c-axis orientation and…

Breaking the intrinsic chirality of quasiparticles in graphene enables the emergence of new and intriguing phases. One such paradigmatic example is the bond density wave, which leads to a Kekul\'{e}-ordered structure and underpins exotic…

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We study leading-order many-body effects of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons on electronic properties of one-dimensional quantum wire systems. We calculate the quasiparticle properties of a weakly polar one dimensional electron gas in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma

We re-visit the issue of plasmon damping due to electron-electron interaction. The plasmon linewidth can related to the imaginary part of the charge susceptibility or, equivalently, to the real part of the optical conductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-03 Prachi Sharma , Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale , Dmitrii L. Maslov

The high surface sensitivity and controlled surface charge state of submicron sized droplets is exploited to study low-energy electron transport through liquid interfaces using photoelectron imaging. Already a few charges on a droplet are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Loren Ban , Thomas E. Gartmann , Bruce L. Yoder , R. Signorell

We consider plane junctions with graphene electrodes, which are formed by a single-level system ("molecule") placed between the edges of two single-layer graphene half planes. We calculate the edge Green functions of the electrodes and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Jan Bundesmann , Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter

Acoustic phonons in piezoelectric materials strongly couple to electrons through a macroscopic electric field. We show that this coupling leads to a momentum-dependent divergence of the Fan-Migdal electron linewidth. We then develop a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Jae-Mo Lihm , Samuel Poncé , Cheol-Hwan Park

Spectral distribution functions of electron-phonon interaction $\alpha^2F(\omega )$ obtained by ab initio linear--response calculations are used to describe various superconducting and transport properties in a number of elemental metals…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Y. Savrasov , D. Y. Savrasov

The fine structure of the Dirac energy spectrum in graphene induced by electron-optical phonon coupling is investigated in the portion of the spectrum near the phonon emission threshold. The derived new dispersion equation in the immediate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters