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Scattering problem for electrons in monolayer graphene with short-range perturbations of the types "local chemical potential" and "local gap" has been solved. Zero gap and non-zero gap kinds of graphene are considered. The determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

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

Uncertainty relations are studied for a characterization of topological-band insulator transitions in 2D gapped Dirac materials isostructural with graphene. We show that the relative or Kullback-Leibler entropy in position and momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Elvira Romera , Manuel Calixto

The mobility of graphene is very high because the quantum Hall effects can be observed even at room temperature. Graphene has the potential of the material for novel devices because of this high mobility. But the energy gap of graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Tatsuo Suzuki , Yushi Yokomizo

Topological defects in graphene, dislocations and grain boundaries, are still not well understood despites the considerable number of experimental observations. We introduce a general approach for constructing dislocations in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

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

Experimentally produced graphene sheets exhibit a wide range of mobility values. Both extrinsic charged impurities and intrinsic ripples (corrugations) have been suggested to induce long-range disorder in graphene and could be a candidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Zheyong Fan , Andreas Uppstu , Ari Harju

We review field theoretical studies dedicated to understanding the effects of electron-electron interaction in graphene, which is characterized by gapless bands, strong electron-electron interactions, and emerging Lorentz invariance deep in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 A. V. Kotikov

Using calculations on defective graphene from first principles, we herein consider the dependence of the properties of the monovacancy of graphene under isotropic strain, with a particular focus on spin moments. At zero strain, the vacancy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-16 E. J. G. Santos , S. Riikonen , D. Sanchez-Portal , A. Ayuela

The interplay between topological defects, such as dislocations or disclinations, and the electronic degrees of freedom in graphene has been extensively studied. In the literature, for the study of this kind of problems, it is in general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 Nicolás Fernández , Pierre Pujol , Mario Solís , Teofilo Vargas

In this paper we study the effect of a fluctuating gap in mono- and bilayer graphene, created by a random staggered potential. We identify a continuous symmetry for the two-particle Green's function which is spontaneously broken in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-05-21 K. Ziegler

Graphene, a two-dimensional material with tunable electronic properties, holds significant importance in condensed matter physics and material science. In this study, we analyze the curvature of graphene's ground-state energy dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Tishya Patel , Yusen Ye , Tharindu Fernando

Locally-gated single-layer graphene sheets have unusual discrete energy states inside the potential barrier induced by a finite-width gate. These states are localized outside the Dirac cone of continuum states and are responsible for novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-03 V. A. Yampol'skii , S. S. Apostolov , Z. A. Maizelis , Alex Levchenko , Franco Nori

We study the effect of disordered ripples on the conductivity of monolayer graphene flakes. We calculate the relaxation times and the Boltzmann conductivities associated with two mechanisms. First, we study the conductivity correction due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Rhonald Burgos , Jesus Warnes , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio Lewenkopf

The broadening of one-dimensional Gaussian wave packets is presented in all textbooks on quantum mechanics. It is used to elucidate Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. The behaviour on a lattice is drastically different if the amplitude…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 K. Schönhammer

Suspended graphene exhibits ripples of size ranging from 50 to 100 {\AA} and height $\sim$10{\AA}, however, their origin remains undetermined. Previous theoretical works have proposed that rippling in graphene might be generated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tommaso Cea , Miguel Ruiz-Garcia , Luis Bonilla , Francisco Guinea

The time evolution of a low-energy two-dimensional Gaussian wave packet in ABC-stacked $n$-layer graphene (ABC-NLG) is investigated. Expectation values of the position $(x,y)$ of center-of-mass and the total probability densities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 I. R. Lavor , D. R. da Costa , Andrey Chaves , S. H. R. Sena , G. A. Farias , B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

We study from first principles the magnetism in graphene induced by single carbon atom defects. For two types of defects considered in our study, the hydrogen chemisorption defect and the vacancy defect, the itinerant magnetism due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg V. Yazyev , Lothar Helm

A quantum mechanical model of two interacting electrons in graphene is considered. We concentrate on the case of zero total momentum of the pair. We show that the dynamics of the system is very unusual. Both stationary and time-dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-18 R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein , I. S. Terekhov

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov