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We reveal a new type of supercritical behavior in gapped graphene with two oppositely charged impurities by studying the two-dimensional Dirac equation for quasiparticles with the Coulomb potential regularized at small distances accounting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-14 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

We demonstrate that for gapped bilayer graphene, the nonlinear nature of the screening of an external disorder potential and the resulting inhomogeneity of the electron liquid are crucial for describing the electronic compressibility. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 D. S. L. Abergel , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We study thermodynamic properties of spatially separated electron-hole plasma in double-layered systems using Green function formalism. The screening of the Coulomb interaction is considered in the framework of Thomas-Fermi approximation,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 V. V. Nikolaev , M. E. Portnoi

We investigate how external screening shapes excitons in two-dimensional (2d) semiconductors embedded in laterally structured dielectric environments. An atomic scale view of these elementary excitations is developed using models which…

When electrons are confined in two dimensions and subjected to strong magnetic fields, the Coulomb interactions between them become dominant and can lead to novel states of matter such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. In these liquids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kirill I. Bolotin , Fereshte Ghahari , Michael D. Shulman , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

We study the energy level structures of the defective graphane lattice, where a carbon dimer defect is created by removing the hydrogen atoms on two nearest-neighbor carbon sites. Robust defect states emerge inside the bulk insulating gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Lei Hao , Hong-Yan Lu , C. S. Ting

Graphene enables precise carrier-density control via gating, making it an ideal platform for studying electronic interactions. However, sample inhomogeneities often limit access to the low-density regimes where these interactions dominate.…

Following the emergence of many novel two-dimensional (2-D) materials beyond graphene, interest has grown in exploring implications for fundamental physics and practical applications, ranging from electronics, photonics, phononics, to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Xiaokun Gu , Yujie Wei , Xiaobo Yin , Baowen Li , Ronggui Yang

We demonstrate a flip-chip device for performing low-temperature acoustoelectric measurements on exfoliated two-dimensional materials. With this device, we study gate-tunable acoustoelectric transport in an exfoliated monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 J. R. Lane , L. Zhang , M. A. Khasawneh , B. N. Zhou , E. A. Henriksen , J. Pollanen

We present a systematic study of the variables affecting the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional(2D) crystals within \textit{ab initio} GW and GW plus Bethe Salpeter Equation (GW-BSE) calculations. As a prototypical 2D…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Diana Y. Qiu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Steven G. Louie

We experimentally investigate the charge induction mechanism across gated, narrow, ballistic graphene devices with different degrees of edge disorder. By using magnetoconductance measurements as the probing technique, we demonstrate that…

The extreme sensitivity of 2D materials to defects and nanostructure requires precise imaging techniques to verify presence of desirable and absence of undesirable features in the atomic geometry. Helium-ion beams have emerged as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-19 Alina Kononov , Alexandra Olmstead , Andrew D. Baczewski , Andre Schleife

Realizing graphene's promise as an atomically thin and tunable platform for fundamental studies and future applications in quantum transport requires the ability to electrostatically define the geometry of the structure and control the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Shaowen Chen , Yihang Zeng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

We study superfluid behavior of a gas of spatially indirect magnetoexcitons with reference to a system of two graphene layers embedded in a multilayer dielectric structure. The system is considered as an alternative of a double quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. A. Pikalov , D. V. Fil

The surface bound electronic states of three-dimensional topological insulators, as well as the edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators, are investigated in the presence of a circularly polarized light. The strong coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak , Danhong Huang

We elaborate that many non-excitonic dielectric and optical properties of semiconductors and insulators caused by interband absorption are originated from quantum geometry, including charge susceptibility, relative dielectric constant,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Wei Chen

Classical electrodynamics has been revisited with a view to recast the electrical parameters for planar transport in 2-dimensional (2-D) materials like graphene. In this attempt a new line integral, named transverse line integral, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Gananath Dash

We study the static and dynamic screening of gapped bilayer graphene. Unlike previous works we use the 4-band model instead of the simplified 2-band model. We find that there are important qualitative differences between the dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 C. Triola , E. Rossi

We report a new method for quantitative estimation of graphene layer thicknesses using high contrast imaging of graphene films on insulating substrates with a scanning electron microscope. By detecting the attenuation of secondary electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Vidya Kochat , Atindra Nath Pal , Sneha E. S. , Arjun B. S. , Anshita Gairola , S. A. Shivashankar , Srinivasan Raghavan , Arindam Ghosh

In the low-energy two-band as well as four-band continuum models, we study the supercritical instability in gapped bilayer graphene in the field of a charged impurity. It is found that the screening effects are crucially important in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 D. O. Oriekhov , O. O. Sobol , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin