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It is well known that there are resonant states with complex energy for the supercritical Coulomb impurity in graphene. We show that opening of a quasiparticle gap decreases the imaginary part of energy, |ImE|, of these states and…

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We study $N$ interacting massless Dirac fermions confined in a two-dimensional quantum dot. Physical realizations of this problem include a graphene monolayer and the surface state of a strong topological insulator. We consider both a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-15 Tomi Paananen , Reinhold Egger , Heinz Siedentop

Electrons in graphene behave like Dirac fermions, permitting phenomena from high energy physics to be studied in a solid state setting. A key question is whether or not these Fermions are critically influenced by Coulomb correlations. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 James P. Reed , Bruno Uchoa , Young Il Joe , Yu Gan , Diego Casa , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte

Starting from the graphene lattice tight-binding Hamiltonian with an on-site U and long-range Coulomb repulsion, we derive an interacting continuum Dirac theory governing the low-energy behavior of graphene in an applied magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We investigate the excitonic instability in the theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. We analyze the electron-hole vertex relevant for exciton condensation in the ladder approximation, showing that it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 J. Gonzalez

There is evidence for existence of massless Dirac quasi-particles in graphene, which satisfy Dirac equation in (1+2) dimensions near the so called Dirac points which lie at the corners at the graphene's brilluoin zone. We revisit the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Riazuddin

We characterize the carrier density profile of the ground state of graphene in the presence of particle-particle interaction and random charged impurity for zero gate voltage. We provide detailed analysis on the resulting spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 M. N. Najafi , M. Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi

We analyze the single particle states at the edges of disordered graphene quantum dots. We show that generic graphene quantum dots support a number of edge states proportional to circumference of the dot over the lattice constant. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov , F. Guinea

We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in ballistic graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10 to 40 nm. We determine wavefunctions and energy level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Libisch , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer

The prototypical exciton model of two interacting Dirac particles in graphene was analyzed in [1] and it was found that in one of the electron-hole scattering channels the total kinetic energy vanishes, resulting in a singular behaviour. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Lachlan L. Marnham , Andrey V. Shytov

Many-body electron-electron interaction effects are theoretically considered in monolayer graphene from a continuum effective field-theoretic perspective by going beyond the standard leading-order perturbative renormalization group (RG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Edwin Barnes , E. H. Hwang , R. E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

We report on transport characteristics of quantum dot devices etched entirely in graphene. At large sizes, they behave as conventional single-electron transistors, exhibiting periodic Coulomb blockade peaks. For quantum dots smaller than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-18 L. A. Ponomarenko , F. Schedin , M. I. Katsnelson , R. Yang , E. H. Hill , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

We study the possibility of excitonic pairing in layered degenerate semimetals such as graphite, where the electron density of states almost vanishes at the Fermi level and, therefore, the Coulomb interactions remain essentially unscreened.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Leal , D. V. Khveshchenko

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

Flat band moir\'e graphene systems have emerged as a quintessential platform to investigate correlated phases of matter. A plethora of interaction-driven ground states have been proposed, and yet despite extensive experimental effort, there…

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

We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang , A. H. MacDonald

Recent experiments involving tilted graphene samples have shown evidence of a continuous phase transition in the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall bulk state. We present here a simple model that supports such a transition. In addition to a long range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 B. R. Feshami , H. A. Fertig

We study the energy of quasi-particles in graphene within the Hartree-Fock approximation. The quasi-particles are confined via an inhomogeneous magnetic field and interact via the Coulomb potential. We show that the associated functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-07 R. Egger , A. De Martino , H. Siedentop , E. Stockmeyer

We analyze a gap equation for the propagator of Dirac quasiparticles and conclude that in graphene in a magnetic field, the order parameters connected with the quantum Hall ferromagnetism dynamics and those connected with the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky
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