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The response of Dirac fermions to a Coulomb potential is predicted to differ significantly from the behavior of non-relativistic electrons seen in traditional atomic and impurity systems. Surprisingly, many key theoretical predictions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Yang Wang , Victor W. Brar , Andrey V. Shytov , Qiong Wu , William Regan , Hsin-Zon Tsai , Alex Zettl , Leonid S. Levitov , Michael F. Crommie

In this work, we present a comprehensive theoretical and computational investigation of exciton fine structures of WSe$_2$-monolayers, one of the best known two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMD's), in various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Wei-Hua Li , Jhen-Dong Lin , Ping-Yuan Lo , Guan-Hao Peng , Ching-Yu Hei , Shao-Yu Chen , Shun-Jen Cheng

Electron interactions in undoped bilayer graphene lead to instability of the gapless state, `which-layer' symmetry breaking, and energy gap opening at the Dirac point. In contrast to single layer graphene, the bilayer system exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

The electronic quality of two-dimensional systems is crucial when exploring quantum transport phenomena. In semiconductor heterostructures, decades of optimization have yielded record-quality two-dimensional gases with transport and quantum…

We address the problem of an unscreened Coulomb charge in graphene, and calculate the local density of states and displaced charge as a function of energy and distance from the impurity. This is done non-perturbatively in two different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-17 Vitor M. Pereira , Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

We report the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems made of graphene nanoribbons which are patterned with ad-atoms in two separated regions. Due to the extra electronic confinement induced by the presence of the impurities, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 J. W. González , L. Rosales , M. Pacheco , A. Ayuela

We theoretically study the dynamic screening properties of bilayer graphene within the random phase approximation assuming quadratic band dispersion and zero gap for the single-particle spectrum. We calculate the frequency dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-18 Rajdeep Sensarma , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We present numerical and analytical results for the optical and acoustic plasmon collective modes of coupled massless-Dirac two-dimensional electron systems. Our results apply to topological insulator (TI) thin films and to two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 Rosario E. V. Profumo , Reza Asgari , Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald

The existence of strongly bound excitons is one of the hallmarks of the newly discovered atomically thin semi-conductors. While it is understood that the large binding energy is mainly due to the weak dielectric screening in two dimensions…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Simone Latini , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We present a computational approach for exciton calculations in two-dimensional (2D) materials within the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) framework, employing an atomistic description with point-like orbitals. Unlike widespread efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 P. Ninhos , A. J. Uría-Álvarez , C. Tserkezis , N. A. Mortensen , J. J. Palacios

We calculate the static polarizability of multilayer graphene and study the effect of stacking arrangement, carrier density, and onsite energy difference on graphene screening properties. At low densities, the energy spectrum of multilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-14 Hongki Min , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We calculate the temperature dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of randomly distributed Coulomb impurity charges arising from the temperature dependent screening of the Coulomb disorder without any phonons. The purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Screening is one of the fundamental concepts in solid state physics. It has a great impact on the electronic properties of graphene where huge mobilities were observed in spite of the large concentration of charged impurities. While static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Marinko Jablan , Marin Soljacic , Hrvoje Buljan

The energy spectra and wavefunctions of bound excitons in important two-dimensional (2D) graphene derivatives, i.e., graphyne and graphane, are found to be strongly modified by quantum confinement, making them qualitatively different from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shouting Huang , Yufeng Liang , Li Yang

With the shrinking of dimensionality, Coulomb interactions play a distinct role in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors owing to the reduced dielectric screening in the out-of-plane direction. Apart from dielectric screening, free charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-27 Ke Xiao , Chi-Ming Kan , Stuart. S. P. Parkin , Xiaodong Cui

In this paper, we numerically study the bound electron states induced by long range Coulomb impurity in gapped graphene and the quasi-bound states in supercritical region based on the lattice model. We present a detailed comparison between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. Zhu , M. L. Liang , Q. W. Shi , Z. F. Wang , J. Chen , J. G. Hou

Crystallographic defects play a key role in determining the properties of crystalline materials. The new class of two-dimensional materials, foremost graphene, have enabled atomically resolved studies of defects, such as vacancies, grain…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Ossi Lehtinen , Nilesh Vats , Gerardo Algara-Siller , Pia Knyrim , Ute Kaiser

Electron-electron interactions play a critical role in many condensed matter phenomena, and it is tempting to find a way to control them by changing the interactions' strength. One possible approach is to place a studied system in proximity…

A fully selfconsistent treatment for gap generation and Coulomb screening in excitonic insulators is presented. The method is based on the equations of motion for the relevant dynamical variables combined with a variational approach.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 Tineke Stroucken , Johanna H. Grönqvist , Stephan. W. Koch

The one-loop polarization function of graphene has been calculated at zero temperature for arbitrary wavevector, frequency, chemical potential (doping), and band gap. The result is expressed in terms of elementary functions and is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-12 P. K. Pyatkovskiy