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Optical properties of graphene are explored by using the generalized tight-binding model. The main features of spectral structures, the form, frequency, number and intensity, are greatly enriched by the complex relationship among the…

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The pseudopotential method is used to derive electron hole structures in a suprathermal plasma having a regularized $\kappa$ probability distribution function background. The regularized character allows the exploration of small $\kappa$…

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We explore the spatial variations of the unoccupied electronic states of graphene epitaxially grown on Ru(0001) and observed three unexpected features: the first graphene image state is split in energy, unlike all other image states, the…

Originating from a broken spatial inversion symmetry, ferroelectricity is a functionality of materials with an electric dipole that can be switched by external electric fields. Spontaneous polarization is a crucial ferroelectric property,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-03 Yubo Zhang , Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew , Xifan Wu

Low-energy reflectivity of electrons from single- and multi-layer graphene is examined both theoretically and experimentally. A series of minima in the reflectivity over the energy range of 0 - 8 eV are found, with the number of minima…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 R. M. Feenstra , N. Srivastava , Qin Gao , M. Widom , Bogdan Diaconescu , Taisuke Ohta , G. L. Kellogg , J. T. Robinson , I. V. Vlassiouk

Surface potential in a topological matter could unprecedentedly localize the waves. However, this surface potential is yet to be exploited in topological photonic systems. Here, we demonstrate that photonic surface states can be induced and…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-21 Haedong Park , Sang Soon Oh , Seungwoo Lee

We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general expression of frequency and wave-vector dependent polarizability within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tao Zhu , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang

Suspended graphene samples are observed to be gently rippled rather than being flat. In [M. Friedrich, U. Stefanelli. Graphene ground states, arXiv:1802.05049], we have checked that this nonplanarity can be rigorously described within the…

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Two-photon ionization of an alkali-metal atom in the presence of a uniform electric field is investigated using a standardized form of local frame transformation and generalized quantum defect theory. The relevant long-range quantum defect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Giannakeas , F. Robicheaux , Chris H. Greene

We study uniaxially strained graphene under the influence of non-uniform magnetic fields perpendicular to the material sample with a coordinate independent strain tensor. For that purpose, we solve the Dirac equation with anisotropic Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-12 Yajaira Concha Sanchez , Adolfo Huet , Alfredo Raya , David Valenzuela

We propose a practical approximation to the exchange-correlation functional of (time-dependent) density functional theory for many-electron systems coupled to photons. The (time non-local) optimized effective potential (OEP) equation for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Camilla Pellegrini , Johannes Flick , Ilya V. Tokatly , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

The statistical properties of the carrier density profile of graphene in the ground state in the presence particle-particle interaction and random charged impurity in zero gate voltage has been recently obtained by Najafi \textit{et al.}…

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The finite momentum optical response $\sigma({\boldsymbol{q}},\omega)$ of graphene can be probed with the innovative technique of infrared nanoscopy where mid-infrared radiation is confined by an atomic force microscope cantilever tip. In…

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First-principles density functional calculations for graphene and defected graphene are used to examine when the quasi-2D electrons near the Fermi energy in graphene could be represented by massless fermions obeying a Dirac-Weyl (DW)…

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The quantum path integral/classical liquid-state theory of Chandler and co-workers, created to describe an excess electron in solvent, is re-examined for the hydrated electron. The portion that models electron-water density correlations is…

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By means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations we have quantitatively estimated the impact of the spontaneous polarization (SP) of the SiC(0001) substrate on the electronic properties of quasi-freestanding graphene (QFG) decoupled…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-27 J. Slawinska , H. Aramberri , J. I. Cerdà

A new photoelectric phenomenon, the in-plane photoelectric (IPPE) effect, has been recently discovered at terahertz (THz) frequencies in a GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructure with a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas (W. Michailow et…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 S. A. Mikhailov , W. Michailow , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

We review our recent time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments, which measure the transient electronic structure of optically driven graphene. For pump photon energies in the near infrared…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-10 Isabella Gierz , Andrea Cavalleri

This paper gives a theoretical formulation of the electromagnetic response of the quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) crystals suitable for investigation of optical activity and polariton modes. The response to external electromagnetic field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Dino Novko , Marijan Šunjić , Vito Despoja

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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