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An analysis of the electron localization properties in doped graphene is performed by doing a numerical multifractal analysis. By obtaining the singularity spectrum of a tight-binding model, it is found that the electron wave functions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-07-01 J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Gerardo G. Naumis

We investigate the effects of randomly distributed atomic defects on the magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges using an extended mean-field Hubbard model. For a balanced defect distribution among the sublattices of…

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We study edges states of graphene ribbons in the quantized Hall regime, and show that they can be described within a continuum model (the Dirac equation) when appropriate boundary conditions are adopted. The two simplest terminations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luis Brey , H. A. Fertig

We investigate the diffusive electron-transport properties of charge-doped graphene ribbons and nanoribbons with imperfect edges. We consider different regimes of edge scattering, ranging from wide graphene ribbons with (partially)…

We study the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling (graphene) in the presence of disorder and electron-electron interactions. We show that the interactions between the delocalized chiral edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

We theoretically study electronic properties of a graphene sheet on xy plane in a spatially nonuniform magnetic field, $B = B_0 \hat{z}$ in one domain and $B = B_1 \hat{z}$ in the other domain, in the quantum Hall regime and in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-03 Sunghun Park , H. -S. Sim

Graphene superlattices (GSLs), formed by subjecting a monolayer graphene sheet to a periodic potential, can be used to engineer band structures and, from there, charge transport properties, but these are sensitive to the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Qifang Zhao , Jiangbin Gong , Cord A. Mueller

We investigate higher-order plasmons in graphene nanoribbons, and present how electronic edge states and wavefunction fine structure influence the graphene plasmons. Based on nearest-neighbor tight-binding calculations, we find that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Kåre Obel Wedel , N. Asger Mortensen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Martijn Wubs

We calculate the ground-state energy of Dirac electrons in graphene in the presence of disorder. We take randomly distributed charged impurities at a fixed distance from the graphene sheet and surface fluctuations (ripples) as the main…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Asgari , M. M. Vazifeh , M. R. Ramezanali , E. Davoudi , B. Tanatar

In order to elucidate the presence of non-localized states in doped graphene, an scaling analysis of the wave function moments known as inverse participation ratios is performed. The model used is a tight- binding hamiltonian considering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Gerardo G. Naumis

We undertake an exact numerical study of the effects of disorder on the Anderson localization of electronic states in graphene. Analyzing the scaling behaviors of inverse participation ratio and geometrically averaged density of states, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 Yun Song , Hongkang Song , Shiping Feng

We use the regularized kernel polynomial method (RKPM) to numerically study the effect disorder on a single layer of graphene. This accurate numerical method enables us to study very large lattices with millions of sites, and hence is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-31 Mohsen Amini , S. A. Jafari , F. Shahbazi

Density functional theory calculations are used to investigate the electronic structures of localized states at reconstructed armchair graphene edges. We consider graphene nanoribbons with two different edge types and obtain the energy band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Changwon Park , Jisoon Ihm , Gunn Kim

Band gap engineering in graphene may open the routes towards transistor devices in which electric current can be switched off and on at will. One may, however, ask if a semiconducting band gap alone is sufficient to quench the current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 G. Tkachov , Martina Hentschel

The present study explores the edge states in a finite-width graphene ribbon and a semi-infinite geometry subject to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field, applied perpendicular to a zigzag edge. To accomplish this,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 A. A. Herasymchuk , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

The interplay between different types of disorder and electron-electron interactions in graphene planes is studied by means of Renormalization Group techniques. The low temperature properties of the system are determined by fixed points…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Stauber , F. Guinea , M. A. H. Vozmediano

Edge structure plays an essential role in the nature of electronic states in graphene nanoribbons. By focusing on the interplay between this feature and non-trivial topology in the domain of the Dirac confinement problem, this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 J. F. O de Souza , Claudio Furtado

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are natural waveguides for electrons in graphene. Nevertheless, unlike micron-sized samples, conductance is nearly suppressed in these narrow graphene stripes, mainly due to scattering with edge disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 E. J. Robles-Raygoza , V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos

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

Edge excitations of the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state in monolayer graphene are studied within the mean-field theory with different symmetry-breaking terms. The analytical expressions for the continuum (Dirac) model wave functions are obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 P. K. Pyatkovskiy , V. A. Miransky