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Relativistic quantum mechanics predicts that when the charge of a superheavy atomic nucleus surpasses a certain threshold, the resulting strong Coulomb field causes an unusual atomic collapse state; this state exhibits an electron wave…

Atomic collapse is a phenomenon inherent to relativistic quantum mechanics where electron states dive in the positron continuum for highly charged nuclei. This phenomenon was recently observed in graphene. Here we investigate a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Robbe Van Pottelberge , Dean Moldovan , S. P. Milovanovic , Francois M. Peeters

Electrons in graphene, behaving as massless relativistic Dirac particles, provide a new perspective on the relation between condensed matter and high-energy physics. We discuss atomic collapse, a novel state of superheavy atoms stripped of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-30 Andrei Shytov , Mark Rudner , Nan Gu , Mikhail Katsnelson , Leonid Levitov

The interplay between a magnetic field and the Coulomb potential from a charged vacancy on the electron states in graphene is investigated within the tight-binding model. The Coulomb potential removes locally Landau level degeneracy, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Jing Wang , Wen-Sheng Zhao , Yue Hu , R. N. Costa Filho , Francois M. Peeters

Artificial atoms in graphene hosting a series of quasi-bound states can serve as an excellent platform to explore atomic collapse and become a basis to design novel graphene nanodevices. We theoretically study behaviors of massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

It is known that in two-dimensional relativistic Dirac systems placed in orthogonal uniform magnetic and electric fields, the Landau levels collapse as the applied in-plane electric field reaches a critical value $\pm E_c$. We study this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 I. O. Nimyi , V. Könye , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

We explore the problem of atomic collapse in graphene by monopole impurities, both electric and magnetic, within the context of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. For electric impurities, upon factorizing the radial Dirac Hamiltonian and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 David Valenzuela , Saúl Hernández-Ortiz , Marcelo Loewe , Alfredo Raya

We consider a relativistic hydrogenic atom in a strong magnetic field. The ground state level depends on the strength of the magnetic field and reaches the lower end of the spectral gap of the Dirac-Coulomb operator for a certain critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-27 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Michael Loss

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

We study the atomic collapse phenomenon in $K$ and $K'$ valley of gapped graphene. Bound states induced by Coulomb impurity in the gap turn into atomic collapse resonances as the charge increases beyond the supercritical charge $Z_c$. $Z_c$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Jing Wang , Xiaotai Wu , Wen-Sheng Zhao , Yuhua Cheng , Yue Hu , Francois M. Peeters

The electronic bound states and resonances in the vicinity of the Dirac point energy due to the adsorption of calcium dimers on a suspended graphene monolayer are explored theoretically using density functional theory (DFT) and an improved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alireza Saffarzadeh , George Kirczenow

The effect of a magnetic field on the charged vacuum is investigated. The field dependence of the energy levels causes jumps in the total vacuum charge that occur whenever an energy level crosses the Fermi level and this leads to re-entrant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. A. Maksym , H. Aoki

Employing the low-energy effective theory alongside a combination of analytical and numerical techniques, we explore the Landau level collapse phenomenon, uncovering previously undisclosed features. We consider both finite-width graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. A. Herasymchuk , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

The structure of atomic levels originating from the lowest Landau level in a superstrong magnetic field is analyzed. The influence of the screening of the Coulomb potential on the values of critical nuclear charge is studied.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 M. I. Vysotsky

It is shown that a magnetic field dramatically affects the problem of supercritical charge in graphene making any charge in gapless theory supercritical. The cases of radially symmetric potential well and Coulomb center in an homogeneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-14 O. V. Gamayun , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

In this paper, we numerically study a Coulomb impurity problem for interacting Dirac fermions restricted in disordered graphene quantum dots. In the presence of randomly distributed lattice defects and spatial potential fluctuations, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Mustafa Polat , A. D. Güçlü

A two-dimensional (2D) hydrogen-like atom with a relativistic Dirac electron, placed in a weak, static, uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the atomic plane, is considered. Closed forms of the first- and second-order Zeeman corrections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Radosław Szmytkowski

A single graphene layer exhibits an anomalous Landau level spectrum. A massless Dirac like low energy electronic spectrum underlies this anomaly. We study, analytically and numerically, the effect of a uniform electric field $(E)$ on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-07 Vinu Lukose , R. Shankar , G. Baskaran

We report experimental data and theoretical analysis of Coulomb drag between two closely positioned graphene monolayers in weak magnetic field. Close enough to the neutrality point, coexistence of electrons and holes in each layer leads to…

Charge impurities in graphene can host an infinite family of Rydberg-like resonance states of massless Dirac particles. These states, appearing for supercritical charge, are described by Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization of collapsing classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-15 A. V. Shytov , M. I. Katsnelson , L. S. Levitov
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