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We theoretically predict that the motion of a polar crystalline layer between two graphene planes exerts Coulomb drag on electrons in graphene, inducing a DC drag current. The physical mechanism underlying this drag arises from intervalley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 A. L. Chudnovskiy

One of the most important developments in condensed matter physics in recent years has been the discovery and characterization of graphene. A two-dimensional layer of Carbon arranged in a hexagonal lattice, graphene exhibits many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-23 Christopher Winterowd , Carleton DeTar , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We present magneto-Raman spectroscopy measurements on suspended graphene to investigate the charge carrier density-dependent electron-electron interaction in the presence of Landau levels. Utilizing gate-tunable magneto-phonon resonances,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 J. Sonntag , S. Reichardt , L. Wirtz , B. Beschoten , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Libisch , C. Stampfer

We show that Coulomb drag in ultra-clean graphene double layers can be used for controlling the on/off ratio for current flow by tunning the external gate voltage. Hence, although graphene remains semi-metallic, the double layer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto

We use a tight-binding model and the random-phase approximation to study the Coulomb excitations in simple-hexagonal-stacking multilayer graphene and discuss the field effects. The calculation results include the energy bands, the response…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Ming-Fa Lin , Ying-Chih Chuang , Jhao-Ying Wu

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Baoming Yan , Qi Han , Zhenzhao Jia , Jingjing Niu , Tuocheng Cai , Dapeng Yu , Xiaosong Wu

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

Motivated by very recent studies of Coulomb drag in grahene-BN-graphene system we develop a theory of Coulomb drag for the Fermi liquid regime, for the case when the ratio of spacer thickness $d$ to the Fermi wavelength of electrons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 M. I. Katsnelson

We consider the problem of screening of an electrically charged impurity in a clean graphene sheet. When electron-electron interactions are neglected, the screening charge has a sign opposite to that of the impurity, and is localized near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-29 Rudro R. Biswas , Subir Sachdev , Dam T. Son

We theoretically investigate Coulomb drag in a system of two parallel monolayers of graphene. Using a Boltzmann equation approach we study a variety of limits ranging from the non-degenerate interaction dominated limit close to charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jonathan Lux , Lars Fritz

The effect of a magnetic field on the charged vacuum is investigated. The field dependence of the energy levels causes jumps in the total vacuum charge that occur whenever an energy level crosses the Fermi level and this leads to re-entrant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. A. Maksym , H. Aoki

The electronic and transport properties of aluminum-graphene composite materials were investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory. The interfacial structure is reported for several configurations. In some cases, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , K. N. Subedi , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

Distribution of charge induced by a gate voltage in a graphene strip is investigated. We calculate analytically the charge profile and demonstrate a strong(macroscopic) charge accumulation along the boundaries of a micrometers-wide strip.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 P. G. Silvestrov , K. B. Efetov

The distribution of net electric charge in graphene is investigated, using both a constitutive atomic charge-dipole interaction model and an approximate analytical solution to Laplace's equation. We demonstrate a strong size dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Zhao Wang , Robert W. Scharstein

We introduce a different perspective describing electron-phonon interactions in graphene based on curved space hydrodynamics. Interactions of phonons with charge carriers increase the electrical resistivity of the material. Our approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Ilario Giordanelli , Miller Mendoza , Hans Herrmann

Multi-layer graphene on the carbon face of silicon carbide is an intriguing electronic system which typically consists of a stack of ten or more layers. Rotational stacking faults in this system dramatically reduce inter-layer coherence. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 Rosario E. V. Profumo , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , Rosario Fazio , A. H. MacDonald

Recent optical conductivity experiments of doped graphene in the infrared regime reveal a strong background in the energy region between the intra and interband transitions difficult to explain within conventional pictures. We propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Adolfo G. Grushin , Belen Valenzuela , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We review the physics of charged impurities in the vicinity of graphene. The long-range nature of Coulomb impurities affects both the nature of the ground state density profile as well as graphene's transport properties. We discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

The effect of charge-carrier screening on the transport properties of a neutral graphene sheet is studied by directly probing its electronic structure. We find that the Fermi velocity, Dirac point velocity, and overall distortion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 David A. Siegel , William Regan , Alexei V. Fedorov , A. Zettl , Alessandra Lanzara

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