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The interband and intraband conductivities of doped graphene were theoretically investigated beyond the linear response. The new dependences of induced currents on frequency and amplitude of external electric field, the graphene temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 B. M. Ruvinskii , M. A. Ruvinskii

In this short note we argue that Thomas-Fermi Theory the simplest of all density functional theories, although failing to explain features such as binding or stability of negative ions, is surprisingly accurate in estimating sizes of atoms.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Jan Philip Solovej

We calculate the density-density response function and electron self-energy for undoped bilayer graphene, within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA). We show that the quasiparticle decay rate scales linearly with the quasiparticle energy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Yafis Barlas , Kun Yang

We demonstrate that for gapped bilayer graphene, the nonlinear nature of the screening of an external disorder potential and the resulting inhomogeneity of the electron liquid are crucial for describing the electronic compressibility. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 D. S. L. Abergel , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We present a general approach for the construction of the exact local-energy-density functionals for a uniform N-dimensional electronic system in a magnetic field. For arbitrary dimension, we obtain explicit expressions for the matter,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. P. van Zyl

We describe a technique which allows a direct measurement of the relative Fermi energy in an electron system using a double layer structure, where graphene is one of the two layers. We illustrate this method by probing the Fermi energy as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Seyoung Kim , Insun Jo , D. C. Dillen , D. A. Ferrer , B. Fallahazad , Z. Yao , S. K. Banerjee , E. Tutuc

Using full-potential density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we found a small asymmetry in the Fermi velocity of electrons and holes in graphene. These Fermi velocity values and their average were found to decrease with increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Harihar Behera , Gautam Mukhopadhyay

In order to obtain a reasonably accurate and easily implemented approach to many-electron calculations, we will develop a new Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, we derive an approximation to electron density, the first term of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 Gregory C. Dente

We present a modified Thomas-Fermi theory that describes the increase of the hyperfine coupling constants of endohedrally enclosed atoms. We use the March boundary conditions corresponding to a positively charged spherical shell surrounding…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Joshua Schrier , K. Birgitta Whaley

Quantum corrections to Thomas-Fermi (TF) theory are investigated for noninteracting one-dimensional fermions with known uniform semiclassical approximations to the density and kinetic energy. Their structure is analyzed, and contributions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-15 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Kieron Burke

This work addresses the electrostatic problem of a thin, curved, cylindrical conductor, or a conducting filament, and shows that the corresponding linear charge density slowly tends to uniformity as the inverse of the logarithm of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 M. H. Partovi , J. D. Griffiths

The effective mass approximation is analysed in a nonperturbative kinetic theory approach to strong field excitations in graphene [1,2]. This problem is highly actual for the investigation of quantum radiation from graphene [3], where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 D. B. Blaschke , V. V. Dmitriev , N. T. Gevorgyan , B. Mahato , A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky , V. A. Tseryupa

Undoped bilayer graphene is a two-dimensional semimetal with a low-energy excitation spectrum that is parabolic in the momentum. As a result, the screening of an arbitrary external charge $Ze$ is accompanied by a reconstruction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley , Daniel L. Abrams

We use linear-response theory to evaluate the frequency-dependent conductivity of a system subject to a continuous quantum measurement of the current. Application of this formalism to graphene yields a consistent framework for discussing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Z. Bernad , M. Jaaskelainen , U. Zuelicke

The dynamical conductivity of interacting multiband electronic systems derived in Ref.[1] is shown to be consistent with the general form of the Ward identity. Using the semiphenomenological form of this conductivity formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 I. Kupcic

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

A new mechanism that induces charge density variations in corrugated graphene is proposed. Here it is shown how the interplay between lattice deformations and exchange interactions can induce charge separation, i.e., puddles of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 L. Brey , J. J. Palacios

1-loop quantum corrections are shown to induce large effects on the refraction index $n$ inside a graphene strip in the presence of an external magnetic field $B$ orthogonal to it. To this purpose, we use the tools of Quantum Field Theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-27 Olivier Coquand , Bruno Machet

The electronic structure in the vicinity of the 1-heptagonal and 1-pentagonal defects in the carbon graphene plane is investigated. Using a continuum gauge field-theory model the local density of states around the Fermi energy is calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 J. Smotlacha , R. Pincak , M. Pudlak

We report a systematic study of the contact resistance present at the interface between a metal (Ti) and graphene layers of different, known thickness. By comparing devices fabricated on 11 graphene flakes we demonstrate that the contact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Russo , M. F. Craciun , M. Yamamoto , A. F. Morpurgo , S. Tarucha