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Here we demonstrate the selective bulk scale synthesis of delaminated graphene sheets by a proper choice of magnetic field modulating an electric-arc. An ultra-high purity glassy graphite anode was sublimated in an argon atmosphere. Carbon…

We study the possibility of realizing topological phases in graphene with randomly distributed adsorbates. When graphene is subjected to periodically distributed adatoms, the enhanced spin-orbit couplings can result in various topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hua Jiang , Zhenhua Qiao , Haiwen Liu , Junren Shi , Qian Niu

Hydrogen adatoms are shown to generate magnetic moments inside single layer graphene. Spin transport measurements on graphene spin valves exhibit a dip in the non-local spin signal as a function of applied magnetic field, which is due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Kathleen M. McCreary , Adrian G. Swartz , Wei Han , Jaroslav Fabian , Roland K. Kawakami

The interplay between different types of disorder and electron-electron interactions in graphene planes is studied by means of Renormalization Group techniques. The low temperature properties of the system are determined by fixed points…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Stauber , F. Guinea , M. A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the interactions between two identical magnetic impurities substituted into a graphene superlattice. Using a first-principles approach, we calculate the electronic and magnetic properties for transition-metal substituted…

We study the effects of metallic doping on the electronic properties of graphene using density functional theory in the local density approximation in the presence of a local charging energy (LDA+U). The electronic properties are sensitive…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Uchoa , C. -Y. Lin , A. H. Castro Neto

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

Two-dimensional quantum materials offer a robust platform for investigating the emergence of symmetry-broken ordered phases owing to the high tuneability of their electronic properties. For instance, the ability to create new electronic…

Graphene phonons are measured as a function of electron doping via the addition of potassium adatoms. In the low doping regime, the in-plane carbon G-peak hardens and narrows with increasing doping, analogous to the trend seen in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. A. Howard , M. P. M. Dean , F. Withers

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

We theoretically investigate spin-resolved currents flowing in large-area graphene, with and without defects, doped with single atoms of noble metals (Cu, Ag and Au) and 3d-transition metals (Mn,Fe,Co and Ni). We show that the presence of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 Matheus P. Lima , Antônio J. R. da Silva , A. Fazzio

We have performed density functional theory calculations of graphene decorated with carbon adatoms, which bind at the bridge site of a C--C bond. Earlier studies have shown that the C adatoms have magnetic moments and have suggested the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 J. Nokelainen , I. V. Rozhansky , B. Barbiellini , E. Lähderanta , K. Pussi

We predict a transition to metallicity when a sufficient amount of disorder is induced in graphene. Calculations were performed by means of a first principles stochastic quench method. The resulting amorphous graphene can be seen as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Holmstrom , J. Fransson , O. Eriksson , R. Lizarraga , B. Sanyal , M. I. Katsnelson

The magnetic phase diagram of a ground state is studied theoretically for graphene nanoflakes of bow-tie shape and various size in external in-plane magnetic field. The tight-binding Hamiltonian supplemented with Hubbard term is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 Karol Szałowski

Doping of the graphene lattice with transition metal atoms resulting in high magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) is an important goal of materials research owing to its potential application in spintronics. In this article, by using…

We show that the physics of deformation in $\alpha$-, $\beta$-, and $6,6,12$-graphyne is, despite their significantly more complex lattice structures, remarkably close to that of graphene, with inhomogeneously strained graphyne described at…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 R. Gupta , S. Maisel , F. Rost , D. Weckbecker , M. Fleischmann , H. Soni , S. Sharma , A. Görling , S. Shallcross

Different instabilities have been speculated for a three-dimensional electron gas confined to its lowest Landau level. The phase transition induced in graphite by a strong magnetic field, and believed to be a Charge Density Wave (CDW), is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Benoît Fauqué , David LeBoeuf , Baptiste Vignolle , Marc Nardone , Cyril Proust , Kamran Behnia

The Kondo effect in the system consisting of a magnetic adatom on the graphene is studied. By using the non-equilibrium Green function method with the slave-boson mean field approximation, the local density of state (LDOS) and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Huai-Bin Zhuang , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

With quantum Monte Carlo methods, we investigate the consequences of placing a magnetic adatom adjacent to a vacancy in a graphene sheet. We find that instead of the adatom properties depending on the energy of the adatom orbital, as in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-29 F. M. Hu , J. E. Gubernatis , Hai-Qing Lin , Yan-Chao Li , R. M. Nieminen

The interaction of two resonant impurities in graphene has been predicted to have a long-range character with weaker repulsion when the two adatoms reside on the same sublattice and stronger attraction when they are on different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 S. LeBohec , J. Talbot , E. G. Mishchenko