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The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random phase approximation in…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marios Mattheakis , Giorgos P. Tsironis , Efthimios Kaxiras

We investigate the propagation of surface waves along a spatially dispersive graphene sheet, including substrate effects. The proposed analysis derives the admittances of an equivalent circuit of graphene able to handle spatial dispersion,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 J. S. Gomez-Diaz , J. R. Mosig , J. Perruisseau-Carrier

Variability effects in graphene can result from the surrounding environment and the graphene material itself, which form a critical issue in examining the feasibility of graphene devices for large-scale production. From the reliability and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Guangyu Xu , Yuegang Zhang , Xiangfeng Duan , Alexander A. Balandin , Kang L. Wang

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete

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

We calculate the average single particle density of states in graphene with disorder due to impurity potentials. For unscreened short-ranged impurities, we use the non-self-consistent and self-consistent Born and $T$-matrix approximations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-18 Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Motivated by graphene-based quantum computer we examine the time-dependence of the position-momentum and position-velocity uncertainties in the monolayer gapped graphene. The effect of the energy gap to the uncertainties is shown to appear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Eylee Jung , Kwang S. Kim , DaeKil Park

Graphene is known to possess strong optical nonlinearity. Its nonlinear response can be further enhanced by graphene plasmons. Here, we report a novel nonlinear electro-absorption effect observed in nanostructured graphene due to excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 D. Kundys , B. Van Duppen , O. P. Marshall , F. Rodriguez , I. Torre , A. Tomadin , M. Polini , A. N. Grigorenko

In this article we perform the quantization of graphene plasmons using both a macroscopic approach based on the classical average electromagnetic energy and a quantum hydrodynamic model, in which graphene charge carriers are modeled as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Beatriz A. Ferreira , B. Amorim , A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

Bound electron states in impure graphene are considered. Short-range perturbations for defect and impurities of the types "local chemical potential" and "local gap" are taken into account.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov , Philip A. Pogorelov

We study the effects of site dilution disorder on the electronic properties in graphene multilayers, in particular the bilayer and the infinite stack. The simplicity of the model allows for an easy implementation of the coherent potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

The combined effect due to mechanical strain, coupling to the plasmons in a doped conducting substrate, the plasmon-phonon scattering in conjunction with the role played by encapsulation of a secondary two-dimensional (2D) layer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Dipendra Dahal , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

The theory of optical effects in hydrogenated graphene (graphane) in terahertz and infrared range is developed, including the analysis of complex conductivity, reflection coefficient for graphane on a substrate and dispersion of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 E. I. Preobrazhensky , I. V. Oladyshkin , M. D. Tokman

We demonstrate theoretically that most of the observed transport properties of graphene sheets at zero magnetic field can be explained by scattering from charged impurities. We find that, contrary to common perception, these properties are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

It is shown that a ``vacuum polarization'' induced by Coulomb potential in graphene leads to a strong suppression of electric charges even for undoped case (no charge carriers). A standard linear response theory is therefore not applicable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

A self-consistent theory involving Maxwell equations and a density-matrix linear-response theory is solved for an electromagnetically-coupled doped graphene micro-ribbon array and a quantum-well electron gas sitting at an interface between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak

It is shown that clustering of charged impurities on graphene can suppress their contribution to the resistivity by a large factor of about the number of impurities per cluster, while leaving the density dependence unchanged. If the cluster…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea , A. K. Geim

Tunability of the surface plasmon resonance wavelength is demonstrated by varying the thickness of Al2O3 spacer layer inserted between the graphene and nanoparticles. By varying the spacer layer thickness from 0.3 to 1.8 nm, the resonance…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Jing Niu , Young Jun Shin , Youngbin Lee , Jong-Hyun Ahn , Hyunsoo Yang

An analytical method for diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at periodically-modulated graphene sheet is presented. Both interface corrugation and periodical change in the optical conductivity are considered. Explicit expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. M. Slipchenko , M. L. Nesterov , L. Martin-Moreno , A. Yu. Nikitin