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We theoretically calculate the impurity-scattering induced resistivity of twisted bilayer graphene at low twist angles where the graphene Fermi velocity is strongly suppressed. We consider, as a function of carrier density, twist angle, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

In traditional semiconductors with large effective Bohr radius, an electron donor creates a hydrogen-like bound state just below the conduction band edge. The properties of the impurity band arising from such hydrogenic impurities have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-04 Brian Skinner

The magnetic properties of disordered graphene and irradiated graphite are systematically studied using a combination of mean-field Hubbard model and first-principles calculations. By considering large-scale disordered models of graphene, I…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-17 Oleg V. Yazyev

We study impurity bound states and impurity-induced order in the superconducting state of LiFeAs within a realistic five-band model based on the band structure and impurity potentials obtained from density functional theory (DFT). In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-11 Maria N. Gastiasoro , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen

We study the band dispersion of graphene with randomly distributed structural defects using two complementary methods, exact diagonalization of the tight-binding Hamiltonian and implementing a self-consistent T matrix approximation. We…

This article summarizes our understanding of the Kondo effect in graphene, primarily from a theoretical perspective. We shall describe different ways to create magnetic moments in graphene, either by adatom deposition or via defects. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-18 Lars Fritz , Matthias Vojta

We demonstrate theoretically that most of the observed transport properties of graphene sheets at zero magnetic field can be explained by scattering from charged impurities. We find that, contrary to common perception, these properties are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

We have carried out ab initio electronic structure calculations on graphane (hydrogenated graphene) with single and double vacancy defects. Our analysis of the density of states reveal that such vacancies induce the mid gap states and…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 Bhalchandra S. Pujari , D. G. Kanhere

The conductivity of armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of short-range impurities and edge roughness is studied theoretically using the Boltzmann transport equation for quasi-one-dimensional systems. As the number of occupied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hengyi Xu , Thomas Heinzel

We develop a first-principles theory of resonant impurities in graphene and show that a broad range of typical realistic impurities leads to the characteristic sublinear dependence of the conductivity on the carrier concentration. By means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 T. O. Wehling , S. Yuan , A. I. Lichtenstein , A. K. Geim , M. I. Katsnelson

We propose a unique way to control both bandgap and the magnetic properties of nanoscale graphene, which might prove highly beneficial for application in nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. We have shown that chemical doping by nitrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

The electronic properties of low-dimensional materials can be engineered by doping, but in the case of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) the proximity of two symmetry-breaking edges introduces an additional dependence on the location of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 S. R. Power , V. M. de Menezes , S. B. Fagan , M. S. Ferreira

The electrical conductivity of graphene containing point defects is studied within the binary alloy model in its dependence on the Fermi level position at the zero temperature. It is found that the minimal conductivity value does not have a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Yuriy V. Skrypnyk , Vadim M. Loktev

The conductivity of graphene samples with various levels of disorder is investigated for a set of specimens with mobility in the range of $1-20\times10^3$ cm$^2$/V sec. Comparing the experimental data with the theoretical transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-02 Y. -W. Tan , Y. Zhang , K. Bolotin , Y. Zhao , S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma , H. L. Stormer , P. Kim

We study the property of a magnetic impurity on a single-layer graphene within an Anderson impurity model. Due to the vanishing local density of states at the Fermi level in graphene, the impurity spin cannot be effectively screened out.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-30 Chunhua Li , Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

Formation of localized impurity levels within the band gap in bigraphene under applied electric field is considered and the conditions for their collectivization at finite impurity concentration are established. It is shown that a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-08-12 Y. G. Pogorelov , M. C. Santos , V. M. Loktev

We analyze the electronic properties of bilayer graphene with Bernal stacking and a low concentration of adatoms. Assuming that the host bilayer lies on top of a substrate, we consider the case where impurities are adsorbed only on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We have investigated the effect of nonmagnetic impurities on the quasi-one-dimensional unconventional density wave (UDW) ground state. The thermodynamics were found to be close to those of a d-wave superconductor in the Born limit. Four…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Balázs Dóra , Attila Virosztek , Kazumi Maki

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

It is shown that clustering of charged impurities on graphene can suppress their contribution to the resistivity by a large factor of about the number of impurities per cluster, while leaving the density dependence unchanged. If the cluster…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea , A. K. Geim