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Here we show, with simultaneous transport and photoemission measurements, that the graphene terminated SiC(0001) surface undergoes a metal-insulator transition (MIT) upon dosingwith small amounts of atomic hydrogen. We find the room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-16 Aaron Bostwick , Jessica L. McChesney , Konstantin Emtsev , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Stephan D. Kevan , Eli Rotenberg

Interactions among charge carriers in graphene can lead to the spontaneous breaking of multiple degeneracies. When increasing the number of graphene layers following rhombohedral stacking, the dominant role of Coulomb interactions becomes…

The optical response and the ground state of graphene and graphene-like systems are determined self-consistently. Deriving equations of motion for the basic variables, graphene Bloch equations are introduced and combined with a variational…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-10 T. Stroucken , J. H. Grönqvist , S. W. Koch

We argue that the unscreened Coulomb interaction in graphene provides a positive, universal, and logarithmic correction to scaling of zero-temperature conductivity with frequency. The combined effect of the disorder due to wrinkling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 Igor F. Herbut , Vladimir Juricic , Oskar Vafek

Insights into the fundamental properties of graphene's Dirac-Weyl fermions have emerged from studies of electron tunnelling transistors in which an atomically thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is sandwiched between two layers of…

The influence of long-range Coulomb interactions on the properties of one-dimensional (1D) strongly correlated electron systems in vicinity of the metal-insulator phase transition is considered. It is shown that unscreened repulsive Coulomb…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 I. V. Krive , A. A. Nersesyan , M. Jonson , R. I. Shekhter

We report on Hybrid-Monte-Carlo simulations at finite spin density of the $\pi$-band electrons in monolayer graphene with realistic inter-electron interactions. Unlike simulations at finite charge-carrier density, these are not affected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-15 Michael Körner , Dominik Smith , Pavel Buividovich , Maksim Ulybyshev , Lorenz von Smekal

Carbon-based nanostructures have unparalleled electronic properties. At the same time, using an allotrope of carbon as the contacts can yield better device control and reproducibility. In this work, we simulate a single-electron transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Washington F. dos Santos , Felippe Amorim , Alexandre Reily Rocha

We address the interaction of graphene with 3d transition metal adatoms and the formation of localized magnetic moments by means of first-principles calculations. By comparing calculations within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-14 T. O. Wehling , A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson

To overcome the limitations of graphene due to lack of intrinsic band gap, it is generally functionalized with hydrogen or halogen atoms such as fluorine and chlorine. Generally, such functionalization yields a moderate- to high-band-gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-13 Shivam Puri , Somnath Bhowmick

We study electronic properties of graphene with finite concentration of vacancies or other resonant scatterers by a straightforward lattice Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. Taking into account realistic long-range Coulomb interaction we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 M. V. Ulybyshev , M. I. Katsnelson

The proximity-induced couplings in graphene due to the vicinity of a ferromagnetic insulator are analyzed. We combine general symmetry principles and simple tight-binding descriptions to consider different orientations of the magnetization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Vo Tien Phong , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We give a brief summary of the current status of the electron many-body problem in graphene. We claim that graphene has intrinsic dielectric properties which should dress the interactions among the quasiparticles, and may explain why the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-07 Bruno Uchoa , James P. Reed , Yu Gan , Young Il Joe , Diego Casa , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte

Electrons in graphene behave like Dirac fermions, permitting phenomena from high energy physics to be studied in a solid state setting. A key question is whether or not these Fermions are critically influenced by Coulomb correlations. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 James P. Reed , Bruno Uchoa , Young Il Joe , Yu Gan , Diego Casa , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte

We study exchange coupling due to the interelectron Coulomb interaction between two ferromagnetic grains embedded into insulating matrix. This contribution to the exchange interaction complements the contribution due to virtual electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 O. G. Udalov , I. S. Beloborodov

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

We present evidence, from Lattice Monte Carlo simulations of the phase diagram of graphene as a function of the Coulomb coupling between quasiparticles, that graphene in vacuum is likely to be an insulator. We find a semimetal-insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-15 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

The physics of non-local exchange interactions in graphene sheets is studied within a $\pi$-orbital tight-binding model using a Hartree-Fock approximation and Coulomb interactions modified at short distances by lattice effects and at large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 Jeil Jung , Allan H. MacDonald

The quasi-2D electrons in graphene behave as massless fermions obeying a Dirac-Weyl equation in the low-energy regime near the two Fermi points. The stability of spin-polarized phases (SPP) in graphene is considered. The exchange energy is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana