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We study the role of long-range electron-electron interactions in a system of two-dimensional anisotropic Dirac fermions, which naturally appear in uniaxially strained graphene, graphene in external potentials, some strongly anisotropic…

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Using hybrid exchange-correlation functional in ab initio density functional theory calculations, we study magnetic properties and strain effect on the electronic properties of $\alpha$-graphyne monolayer. We find that a spontaneous…

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The effects of substrate on electronic and optical properties of triangular and hexagonal graphene nanoflakes with armchair edges are investigated by using a configuration interaction approach beyond double excitation scheme. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 W. Sheng , M. Sun , A. Zhou , S. J. Xu

We demonstrate that in the presence of Coulomb interactions, electrons in graphene behave like a critical system, supporting power law correlations with interaction-dependent exponents. An asymptotic analysis shows that the origin of this…

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We show that the many-body features of graphene band structure and electronic response can be accurately evaluated by applying many-body perturbation theory to a tight-binding (TB) model. In particular, we compare TB results for the optical…

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We show that the plasmon spectrum of an ordinary two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) hosted in a GaAs heterostructure is significantly modified when a graphene sheet is placed on the surface of the semiconductor in close proximity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Alessandro Principi , Matteo Carrega , Reza Asgari , Vittorio Pellegrini , Marco Polini

The low-energy physics of graphene is described by relativistic Dirac fermions with spin and valley degrees of freedom. Mechanical strain can be used to create a pseudo magnetic field pointing to opposite directions in the two valleys. We…

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We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the quasiparticle dispersion of a graphene bilayer within the Hartree-Fock-Thomas-Fermi theory by using a four-bands model. We find that the electronic fluid can be described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-21 S. Viola Kusminskiy , D. K. Campbell , A. H. Castro Neto

We investigate magnetic instabilities in charge-neutral twisted bilayer graphene close to so-called "magic angles" using a combination of real-space Hartree-Fock and dynamical mean-field theories. In view of the large size of the unit cell…

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We have investigated transport through graphene Andreev interferometers exhibiting reentrance of the superconducting proximity effect. We observed a crossover in the Andreev conductance oscillations as a function of gate voltage ($V_{BG}$).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Fabio Deon , Sandra Šopić , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Integrating the carrier tunability of a functional two-dimensional material electronic device with a direct probe of energy- and momentum-resolved electronic excitations is essential to gain insights on how many-body interactions are…

Measuring the transport of electrons through a graphene sheet necessarily involves contacting it with metal electrodes. We study the adsorption of graphene on metal substrates using first-principles calculations at the level of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. A. Khomyakov , G. Giovannetti , P. C. Rusu , G. Brocks , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly

We present an {\it ab initio} many-body GW calculation of the self-energy, the quasiparticle band plot and the spectral functions in free-standing undoped graphene. With respect to other approaches, we numerically take into account the full…

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It was shown in PHYSICAL REVIEW B 92, 085409 (2015) that the dynamics of a pair of electrons in graphene can be mapped onto that of a single particle with negative effective mass, leading to bound states of positive energy despite the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 L. L. Marnham , A. V. Shytov

The $\pi$-electronic structure of graphene in the presence of a modulated electric potential is investigated by the tight-binding model. The low-energy electronic properties are strongly affected by the period and field strength. Such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Ho , Y. H. Chiu , S. J. Tsai , M. F. Lin

A graphene quantum dot under intense ac field and static low magnetic field is investigated. From a tight-binding perspective, applying a Fourier-Floquet transformation and renormalization process, we observe that graphene -intrinsically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. H. Rivera , A. L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

We present a review of the electronic compressibility of monolayer and bilayer graphene. We focus on describing theoretical calculations of the effects of electron--electron interactions and various types of disorder, and also give a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. S. L. Abergel

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 present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

Two- and three-dimensional electron gases with a uniform neutralizing background are studied at negative compressibility. Parametrized expressions for the dielectric function are used to access this strong-coupling regime, where the…

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