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We report a detailed analytic investigation of the interplay between size quantization and local scattering centers in armchair graphene nanoribbons, as seen in the conductance. The scattering property of a local scattering center is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Anders Bergvall , Tomas Lofwander

We used a quantum Monte Carlo method to study the magnetic impurity adatoms on graphene. We found that by tuning the chemical potential we could switch the values of the impurity's local magnet moment between relatively large and small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-05 F. M. Hu , Tianxing Ma , Hai-Qing Lin , J. E. Gubernatis

We study both monolayer and bilayer graphene transport properties taking into account the presence of correlations in the spatial distribution of charged impurities. In particular we find that the experimentally observed sublinear scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi

We study the spin relaxation of charge carriers in graphene in the presence of spin-polarized charged impurities by calculating the time evolution of initially polarized state. The spin relaxation time shows completely different energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Ville Vierimaa , Zheyong Fan , Ari Harju

This work analyses how impurities and vacancies on the surface of a graphene sample affect its optical conductivity and plasmon excitations. The disorder is analysed in the self-consistent Green's function formulation and nonlocal effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Giovanni Viola , Tobias Wenger , Jari Kinaret , Mikael Fogelström

We investigate the conductivity of graphene sheet deformed over a gate. The effect of the deformation on the conductivity is twofold: The lattice distortion can be represented as pseudovector potential in the Dirac equation formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Medvedyeva , Ya. M. Blanter

The scattering of a Gaussian wavepacket in armchair and zigzag graphene edges is theoretically investigated by numerically solving the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for the tight-binding model Hamiltonian. Our theory allows to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. R. da Costa , A. Chaves , G. A. Farias , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

We consider a model of a leaky quantum wire with the Hamiltonian $-\Delta -\alpha \delta(x-\Gamma)$ in $L^2(\R^2)$, where $\Gamma$ is a compact deformation of a straight line. The existence of wave operators is proven and the S-matrix is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Pavel Exner , Sylwia Kondej

We show that a generalized Dirac structure survives beyond the linear regime of the low-energy dispersion relations of graphene. A generalized uncertainty principle of the kind compatible with specific quantum gravity scenarios with a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Iorio , P. Pais , I. A. Elmashad , A. F. Ali , Mir Faizal , L. I. Abou-Salem

Resonant scattering at the atomic absorbates in graphene was investigated recently in relation with the transport and gap opening problems. Attaching an impurity atom to graphene is believed to lead to the creation of unusual zero energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 P. G. Silvestrov

The variable range hopping theory, as formulated for exponentially localized impurity states, does not necessarily apply in the case of graphene with covalently attached impurities. We analyze the localization of impurity states in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Sang-Zi Liang , Jorge O. Sofo

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. I. Breev , R. Ferreira , D. M. Gitman , B. L. Voronov

Considering the interband correlation, we present a generalized multiple-scattering approach of Green's function to investigate the effects of electron-impurity scattering on the density of states in silicene. The reduction of energy gaps…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 S. Y. Liu , Y. C. Zeng , X. L. Lei

There is an increasing amount of literature concerning electronic properties of graphene close to the neutrality point. Many experiments continue using the two-probe geometry or invasive contacts or do not control samples' macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 P. Blake , R. Yang , S. V. Morozov , F. Schedin , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. A. Zhukov , I. V. Grigorieva , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

We consider a graphene sheet folded in an arbitrary geometry, compact or with nanotube-like open boundaries. In the continuous limit, the Hamiltonian takes the form of the Dirac operator, which provides a good description of the low energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-26 Jiannis K. Pachos , Michael Stone

Nonmagnetic impurities in d-wave superconductors cause strong local suppressions of the order parameter. We investigate the observable effects of the scatterigng off such suppressions in bulk samples by treating the order parameter "hole"…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthias H. Hettler , P. J. Hirschfeld

This paper analyzes the scattering theory for periodic tight-binding Hamiltonians perturbed by a finite range impurity. The classical energy gradient flow is used to construct a conjugate (or dilation) operator to the unperturbed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Jean Bellissard , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

The in-plane acoustic phonon scattering in graphene is solved by considering fully inelastic acoustic phonon scatterings in two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials for large range of temperature ($T$) and chemical potential ($\mu$). Rigorous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Khoe Van Nguyen , Yia-Chung Chang

Unitary limit for model point scatterers in graphene is known to reveal low-energy resonances. The same limit could be achieved from hybridization of band electrons with the localized impurity level positioned in the vicinity of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 V. V. Mkhitaryan , E. G. Mishchenko

Experimentally produced graphene sheets exhibit a wide range of mobility values. Both extrinsic charged impurities and intrinsic ripples (corrugations) have been suggested to induce long-range disorder in graphene and could be a candidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Zheyong Fan , Andreas Uppstu , Ari Harju