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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

We address the problem of an unscreened Coulomb charge in graphene, and calculate the local density of states and displaced charge as a function of energy and distance from the impurity. This is done non-perturbatively in two different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-17 Vitor M. Pereira , Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

Application of a perpendicular electric field induces a band gap in bilayer graphene, and it also creates a "Mexican hat" structure in the dispersion relation. This structure has unusual implications for the hydrogen-like bound state of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Brian Skinner , B. I. Shklovskii , M. B. Voloshin

The density of states and differential entropy per particle are analyzed for Dirac-like electrons in graphene subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field. For comparison, the derived density of states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Andrii A. Chaika , Yelizaveta Kulynych , D. O. Oriekhov , Sergei G. Sharapov

Resonant scattering at the atomic absorbates in graphene was investigated recently in relation with the transport and gap opening problems. Attaching an impurity atom to graphene is believed to lead to the creation of unusual zero energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 P. G. Silvestrov

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…

Introducing quasiparticle anisotropy in graphene via uniaxial strain has a profound effect on the polarization charge density induced by external impurities, both Coulomb and short-range. In particular, the charge distribution induced by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Sang Wook Kim , Juan M. Vanegas , Valeri N. Kotov

In a recent publication [Phys. Rev. B $\textbf{89}$, 155403 (2014)], the authors investigated the spectrum of a Coulomb impurity in graphene in the presence of magnetic and electric fields using the coupled series expansion approach. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 R. Van Pottelberge , M. Zarenia , F. 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

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 review the problem of electron-electron interactions in graphene. Starting from the screening of long range interactions in these systems, we discuss the existence of an emerging Dirac liquid of Lorentz invariant quasi-particles in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Valeri N. Kotov , Bruno Uchoa , Vitor M. Pereira , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

The supercritical instability in a system of two identical charged impurities in gapped graphene described in the continuous limit by the two-dimensional Dirac equation has been studied. The case where the charge of each impurity is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-27 Oleksandr Sobol

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

The Coulomb impurity problem of graphene, in the absence of a magnetic field, displays discrete scale invariance. Applying a magnetic field introduces a new magnetic length scale $\ell$ and breaks discrete scale invariance. Moreover, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Hoang-Anh Le , S. -R. Eric Yang

In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

We consider a model of 1D relativistic hydrogen-like atom, formed by a Coulomb impurity in graphene nanoribbon. Describing the electron motion in terms of the one-dimensional Dirac equation for Coulomb potential taking into account the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 S. Z. Rakhmanov , K. P. Matchonov , A. K. Rakhimov , D. U. Matrasulov

We review the physics of charged impurities in the vicinity of graphene. The long-range nature of Coulomb impurities affects both the nature of the ground state density profile as well as graphene's transport properties. We discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We study the problem of non-magnetic impurities adsorbed on bilayer graphene in the diluted regime. We analyze the impurity spectral densities for various concentrations and gate fields. We also analyze the effect of the adsorbate on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The Dirac equation for an electron in a finite dipole potential has been studied within the method of linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO). The Coulomb potential of the nuclei that compose a dipole is regularized, by considering the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-27 O. O. Sobol

We investigate the quasi-bound states of a Coulomb impurity in graphene in the presence of a magnetic field. \ These states exhibit the dramatic and rather rare property of discrete scale invariance when the Coulomb potential is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Hailong Li , Haiwen Liu , Robert Joynt , X. C. Xie