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We study the intervalley scattering in defected graphene by low-temperature transport measurements. The scattering rate is strongly suppressed when defects are charged. This finding highlights "screening" of the short-range part of a…

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The study of vacancies in graphene is a topic of growing interest. A single vacancy induces a localized stable charge of order unity interacting with other charges of the conductor through an unscreened Coulomb potential. It also breaks the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Omrie Ovdat , Yaroslav Don , Eric Akkermans

We derive the phase diagram of a paradigmatic model of Coulomb frustrated phase separation in two-dimensional systems with negative short-range electronic compressibility. We consider the system subject either to the truly three-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-13 C. Ortix , J. Lorenzana , C. Di Castro

We report on Hybrid-Monte-Carlo simulations at finite spin density of the $\pi$-band electrons in monolayer graphene with realistic inter-electron interactions. Unlike simulations at finite charge-carrier density, these are not affected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-15 Michael Körner , Dominik Smith , Pavel Buividovich , Maksim Ulybyshev , Lorenz von Smekal

We develop an Effective Medium Theory to study the electrical transport properties of disordered graphene. The theory includes non-linear screening and exchange-correlation effects allowing us to consider experimentally relevant strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 Enrico Rossi , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

We deduce a non-linear continuum model of graphene for the case of finite out-of-plane displacements and small in-plane deformations. On assuming that the lattice interactions are governed by the Brenner's REBO potential of 2nd generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Cesare Davini , Antonino Favata , Roberto Paroni

Recent experiments suggest quantum interference effects in the Coulomb drag of double-layer graphene systems. By accounting for correlated interlayer impurity scattering under a weak magnetic field, our theoretical results reveal drag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Jianghui Pan , Lijun Zhu , Xiaoqiang Liu , Lin Li , Changgan Zeng , Ji Feng

We study the dynamical phase transition out of an excitonic insulator phase after photo-excitation using a time-dependent extension of the selfconsistent GW method. We connect the evolution of the photoemission spectra to the dynamics of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-20 Denis Golež , Philipp Werner , Martin Eckstein

In this article, we propose a new numerical model for computation of the transport of electrons in a graphene device. The underlying quantum model for graphene is a massless Dirac equation, whose eigenvalues display a conical singularity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Florian Méhats

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 present an effective hydrodynamic theory of electronic transport in graphene in the interaction-dominated regime. We derive the emergent hydrodynamic description from the microscopic Boltzmann kinetic equation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 U. Briskot , M. Schütt , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov , B. N. Narozhny , A. D. Mirlin

Recently, plasmons in graphene have been observed experimentally using scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy. In this paper, we develop a simplified analytical approach to describe the behavior in triangular samples. Replacing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 A. S. Rodin , Z. Fei , A. S. McLeod , M. Wagner , A. H. Castro Neto , M. M. Fogler , D. N. Basov

We theoretically investigate the plasmon modes of alternating-twist multilayer graphene. In multilayer systems, interlayer coupling gives rise to distinctive plasmon modes, but calculations in moir\'e systems remain challenging due to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Taehun Kim , Hongki Min

Using the variable phase method, we reformulate the Dirac equation governing the charge carriers in graphene into a nonlinear first-order differential equation from which we can treat both confined-state problems in electron waveguides and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 D. A. Stone , C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

We investigate the effect of on-site Coulomb repulsion $U$ on the band gap of the electrically gated bilayer graphene by employing coherent potential approximation in the paramagnetic state, based on an ionic two-layer Hubbard model. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-17 Jin-Rong Xu , Ze-Yi Song , Hai-Qing Lin , Yu-Zhong Zhang

First principles methods based on periodic boundary conditions are used extensively by materials theorists. However, applying these methods to systems with confined electronic states entails the use of large unit cells in order to avoid…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

We propose an explanation for the apparent semimetal-insulator transition observed in highly oriented pyrolitic graphite in the presence of magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that the magnetic field opens an excitonic gap…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. V. Khveshchenko

We study the problem of Coulomb field-induced charging of the ground state in a system of 2D massive Dirac particles (gapped graphene). As in its 3D QED counterpart, the critical Coulomb coupling is renormalized to higher values, compared…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 Vitor M. Pereira , Valeri N. Kotov , A. H. Castro Neto

We consider a model of Dirac fermions coupled to flexural phonons to describe a graphene sheet fluctuating in dimension $2+d$. We derive the self-consistent screening equations for the quantum problem, exact in the limit of large $d$. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Francisco Guinea , Pierre Le Doussal , Kay Joerg Wiese

We obtain the phase diagram of the double-exchange model at low electronic densities in the presence of electron-electron interactions. The single particle problem and its extension to low electronic densities, when a Wigner crystal of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitor M. Pereira , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto