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Bond stretching and angle bending force fields, appropriate to describe in-plane motion of graphene sheets, are derived using first principles' methods. The obtained force fields are fitted by analytical anharmonic energy potential…
Understanding the effect of electric fields on the physical and chemical properties of two-dimensional (2D) nanostructures is instrumental in the design of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices. Several of those properties are…
Graphene on two dimensional (2D) noncommutative (NC) plane in the presence of a constant background magnetic field has been studied. To handel the gauge-invariance issue we start our analysis by a effective massles NC Dirac field theory…
It is well established that some kinds of lattice deformations in graphene monolayer, which change electron hopping in sublattice and affect in-plane motion of electrons, may induce out-of-plane pseudo-magnetic fields as large as 100 T.…
Recently a proposal for the non-abelian effective D-brane action was given through fourth order in alpha'. As the resulting expressions turned out to be quite involved, some checks of this result are called for. In the present paper we…
The effect of an inhomogeneous magnetic field which varies inversely as distance on the ground state energy level of graphene is studied. In this work, we analytically show that graphene under the influence of a magnetic field arising from…
The electron-phonon interaction in monolayer graphene is investigated by using density functional perturbation theory. The results indicate that the electron-phonon interaction strength is of comparable magnitude for all four in-plane…
The orbital magnetism in spatially varying magnetic fields is studied in monolayer graphene within the effective mass approximation. We find that, unlike the conventional two-dimensional electron system, graphene with small Fermi wave…
Electron-electron interactions are intrinsically long ranged, but many models of strongly interacting electrons only take short-ranged interactions into account. Here, we present results of atomistic calculations including both long-ranged…
Magnetism in single-side hydrogenated (C$_2$H) and fluorinated (C$_2$F) graphene is analyzed in terms of the Heisenberg model with parameters determined from first principles. We predict a frustrated ground state for both systems, which…
Closed expressions for the Green functions of the stationary two-dimensional two-component Schrodinger equation for an electron moving in monolayer and bilayer graphene in the presence of a magnetic field are obtained in terms of the…
We show that the leading derivative corrections to the Heisenberg-Euler effective action can be determined efficiently from the vacuum polarization tensor evaluated in a homogeneous constant background field. After deriving the explicit…
Building upon the Covariant Derivative Expansion, we develop a method to compute effective actions that is able to capture non-perturbative effects induced by strong background fields. We demonstrate the method in scalar QED, by deriving…
We use a recently derived integral representation of the one-loop effective action in Einstein-Maxwell theory for an explicit calculation of the part of the effective action containing the information on the low energy limit of the…
We investigate a high-order homogenization (HOH) algorithm for periodic multilayered stacks. The mathematical tool of choice is a transfer matrix method. Expressions for effective permeability, permittivity and magnetoelectric coupling are…
Magneto-electric coupling enables the manipulation of magnetization by electric fields and vice versa. While typically found in heavy element materials with large spin-orbit coupling, recent experiments on rhombohedral-stacked pentalayer…
Monolayer graphene in a strong magnetic field exhibits quantum Hall states at filling fractions $\nu = 0$ and $\nu = \pm 1$ that are not explained within a picture of noninteracting electrons. We propose that these states arise from…
An indication of spontaneous symmetry breaking is found in the two-dimensional $\lambda\phi^4$ model, where attention is paid to the functional form of an effective action. An effective energy, which is an effective action for a static…
We investigate the low energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the system deformations into an effective gauge field. We study…
We present ab initio theory for electron reflection spectroscopy of few-layer graphene for arbitrary angles of incidence. The inelastic effects are included in a consistent way using the optical potential retrieved from ab initio…