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It is demonstrated that there is a characteristic impurity concentration, at which variation with concentration and overall appearance of the local density of states at the impurity site in graphene are changing their behavior. Features…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V. Skrypnyk , Vadim M. Loktev

We present exact analytical and numerical results for the electronic spectra and the Friedel oscillations around a substitutional impurity atom in a graphene lattice. A chemical dopant in graphene introduces changes in the on-site potential…

The effective spin exchange coupling between impurities (adatoms) on graphene mediated by conduction electrons is studied as a function of the strength of the potential part of the on-site energy $U$ of the electron-adatom interaction. With…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 M. Agarwal , E. G. Mishchenko

It is demonstrated that in a two--band 2D system the resonance state is manifested close to the energy of the Dirac point in the electron spectrum for the sufficiently large impurity perturbation. With increasing the impurity concentration,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Yu. V. Skrypnyk , V. M. Loktev

Recently a paper of Klimovskikh et al. was published presenting experimental and theoretical analysis of the graphene/Pb/Pt(111) system. The authors investigate the crystallographic and electronic structure of this graphene-based system by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-12 Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

We study the effect of impurities in superconducting graphene and discuss their influence on the local electronic properties. In particular, we consider the case of magnetic and non-magnetic impurities being either strongly localized or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 T. O. Wehling , H. P. Dahal , A. I. Lichtenstein , A. V. Balatsky

We study the physics of Dirac fermions in a gapped graphene monolayer containing two Coulomb impurities. For the case of equal impurity charges, we discuss the ground-state energy using the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 D. Klöpfer , A. De Martino , D. Matrasulov , R. Egger

We present a theoretical study using density functional calculations of the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of 3d transition metal, noble metal and Zn atoms interacting with carbon monovacancies in graphene. We pay special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Elton J. G. Santos , Andres Ayuela , Daniel Sanchez-Portal

We theoretically study the atomic structure and energetics of silicon and silicon-nitrogen impurities in graphene. Using density-functional theory, we get insight into the atomic structures of the impurities, evaluate their formation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Mikko M. Ervasti , Zheyong Fan , Andreas Uppstu , Arkady Krasheninnikov , Ari Harju

We study the problem of impurities and mid-gap states in a biased graphene bilayer. We show that the properties of the bound states, such as localization lengths and binding energies, can be controlled externally by an electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the problem of non-magnetic impurities adsorbed on bilayer graphene in the diluted regime. We analyze the impurity spectral densities for various concentrations and gate fields. We also analyze the effect of the adsorbate on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The electronic energy spectrum of graphene electron subjected to a homogeneous magnetic field in the presence of a charged Coulomb impurity is studied analytically within two-dimensional Dirac-Weyl picture by using variational approach. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

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

Due to Klein tunneling in graphene only quasi-bound states are realized in graphene quantum dots by electrostatic gating. Particles in the quasi-bound states are trapped inside the dot for a finite time and they keep bouncing back and forth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Abdelhadi Belouad , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

In this work, we investigate the local effects of a single short-range impurity on the electron system of a short ballistic graphene Josephson Junction. Within the Dirac-Bogoliubov-De Gennes approach, we systematically analyze the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Ignazio Vacante , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , Giuseppe A. Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

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

The indirect exchange interaction between magnetic impurities localized in a graphene plane is considered theoretically, with the influence of intrinsic spin-orbit interaction taken into account. Such an interaction gives rise to an energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 V. K. Dugaev , V. I. Litvinov , J. Barnas

We study graphene which has both spin-orbit coupling (SOC), taken to be of the Kane-Mele form, and a Zeeman field induced due to proximity to a ferromagnetic material. We show that a zigzag interface of graphene having SOC with its pristine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Ranjani Seshadri , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We investigate the energy spectrum, wave functions, and local density of states of an electrical dipole placed on a sheet of gapped graphene as function of the charge strength Z{\alpha} for different sizes of the dipole and for different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 R. Van Pottelberge , B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the behavior of magnetic impurity at the edge of a zigzag graphene ribbon by means of quantum Monte Carlo simulations. A peculiar interplay of Kane-Mele type spin-orbit and impurity-host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 F. M. Hu , T. O. Wehling , J. E. Gubernatis , Thomas Frauenheim , R. M. Nieminen