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We investigate bilayer graphene transport in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by long-range charged impurities in the environment. We explain the insulating behavior observed in the temperature dependent conductivity of low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Using a first principles density functional electronic structure method, we study the energy gaps and magnetism in bilayer graphene nanoribbons as a function of the ribbon width and the strength of an external electric field between the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhagawan Sahu , Hongki Min , Allan. H. MacDonald , Sanjay K. Banerjee

We study local moment formation for adatoms on bilayer graphene (BLG) within a mean-field theory of the Anderson impurity model. The wavefunctions of the BLG electrons induce strong particle-hole asymmetry and band dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Matthew Killi , Dariush Heidarian , Arun Paramekanti

We theoretically investigate the impurity levels and exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in graphene driven by an off-resonant circularly polarized light field. Our analysis captures the non-perturbative effects resulting from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Modi Ke , Wang-Kong Tse

We review the theoretical and experimental results connected with the electron states in two-dimensional Dirac systems paying a special attention to the atomic collapse in graphene. Two-electron bound states of a Coulomb impurity are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-15 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

Electronic localization is numerically studied in disordered bilayer graphene with an electric-field induced energy gap. Bilayer graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, in which an energy gap can be opened and controlled by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino

Bound and resonance electronic states in impure graphene are studied. Short-range perturbations for defects and impurities of the types "local chemical potential" and "local gap" are taken into account. Zero gap and non-zero gap kinds of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov , Philip A. Pogorelov

Graphite crystals used to prepare graphene-based heterostructures are generally assumed to be defect free. We report here scanning tunneling microscopy results that show graphite commonly used to prepare graphene devices can contain a…

We calculate the form of quasiparticle interference patterns in bilayer graphene within a low-energy description, taking into account perturbatively the trigonal warping terms. We introduce four different types of impurities localized on…

We probe the local inhomogeneities of the electronic properties of graphene at the nanoscale using scanning probe microscopy techniques. First, we focus on the study of the electronic inhomogeneities caused by the graphene-substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 A. Castellanos-Gomez , Arramel , M. Wojtaszek , R. H. M. Smit , N. Tombros , N. Agraït , B. J. van Wees , G. Rubio-Bollinger

Low-energy electronic behavior in graphite crystals is highly dependent on the relative stacking arrangement of the constituent layers. Topologically non-trivial electronic states can arise due to interrupted rhombohedral (ABC) stacking,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Luke Soneji , Simon Crampin , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski

We calculate the carrier density dependent ground state properties of graphene in the presence of random charged impurities in the substrate taking into account disorder and interaction effects non-perturbatively on an equal footing in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-17 Enrico Rossi , S. Das Sarma

The influence of magnetic impurities on the transport properties of graphene is investigated in the regime of strong applied electric fields. As a result of electron-hole pair creation, the response becomes nonlinear and dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Arnaud Demion , Alberto D. Verga

Bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edge is investigated with the tight binding model. Two stacking structures, alpha and beta, are considered. The band splitting is seen in the alpha structure, while the splitting in the wave number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura

We study both monolayer and bilayer graphene transport properties taking into account the presence of correlations in the spatial distribution of charged impurities. In particular we find that the experimentally observed sublinear scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi

We investigate the effect of edge defects (vacancies) and impurities (substitutional dopants) on the robustness of spin-polarization in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with zigzag edges, using density-functional-theory calculations. We found…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Huang , Feng Liu , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

Bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edge is investigated with the tight binding model. Two stacking structures, alpha and beta, are considered. The band splitting is seen in the alpha structure, while the splitting in the wave number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Osman Ozsoy

We analyze the electronic properties of adatom doped graphene in the low impurity concentration regime. We focus on the Anderson localized regime and calculate the localization length ($\xi$) as a function of the electron doping and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Gonzalo Usaj , Pablo S. Cornaglia , C. A. Balseiro

The problem of a magnetic impurity, atomic or molecular, absorbed on top of a carbon atom in otherwise clean graphene is studied using the numerical renormalization group. The spectral, thermodynamic, and scattering properties of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-27 P. S. Cornaglia , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The ground state of bilayer graphene is investigated by the density functional calculations with local spin density approximation. We find a ground state with layer antiferromagnetic ordering, which has been suggested by former studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 Yong Wang , Hao Wang , Jin-Hua Gao , Fu-Chun Zhang