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We present a perturbative method for calculating the optical Hall conductivity in a tight-binding framework based on the Kubo formalism. The method involves diagonalization only of the Hamiltonian in absence of the magnetic field, and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Jesper Goor Pedersen , Mikkel H. Brynildsen , Horia D. Cornean , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Graphene, a 2-dimensional monolayer form of sp2 hybridizated carbon atoms, is attracting increasing attention due to its unique and superior physicochemical properties. Covalently functionalized graphene layers, with their modifiable…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-11 Karolina Z. Milowska , Jacek A. Majewski

In this work the Casimir{Polder interaction energy between a rubidium atom and a disordered graphene sheet is investigated beyond the Dirac cone approximation by means of accurate real-space calculations. As a model of defected graphene, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 T. P. Cysne , T. G. Rappoport , Aires Ferreira , J. V. Lopes , N. M. R. Peres

The next-nearest neighbor interaction (NNN) is included in a tight-binding calculation of the electronic spectrum and conductivity of doped graphene. As a result, we observe a wide variation of the conductivity behavior, since the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Gerardo G Naumis

A Drude-Boltzmann theory is used to calculate the transport properties of bilayer graphene. We find that for typical carrier densities accessible in graphene experiments, the dominant scattering mechanism is overscreened Coulomb impurities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-22 Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

In this work, we investigate the adsorption of a single cobalt atom (Co) on graphene by means of the complete active space self-consistent field approach, additionally corrected by the second-order perturbation theory. The local structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-15 A. N. Rudenko , F. J. Keil , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

This is a short non-technical introduction to applications of the Quantum Field Theory methods to graphene. We derive the Dirac model from the tight binding model and describe calculations of the polarization operator (conductivity). Later…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-18 I. V. Fialkovsky , D. V. Vassilevich

Singular graphene metasurfaces, conductivity gratings realized by periodically suppressing the local doping level of a graphene sheet, have recently been proposed to efficiently harvest THz light and couple it to surface plasmons over broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 E. Galiffi , P. A. Huidobro , P. A. D. Gonçalves , N. A. Mortensen , J. B. Pendry

The effect due to doping by B, Si, N on the magneto-transport properties of graphene is investigated using the generalized tight-binding model in conjunction with the Kubo formula. The crucial electronic and transport properties are greatly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Po-Hsin Shih , Thi-Nga Do , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Ming-Fa Lin

We study the effects of polarizable substrates such as SiO2 and SiC on the carrier dynamics in graphene. We find that the quasiparticle spectrum acquires a finite broadening due to the long-range interaction with the polar modes at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Fratini , F. Guinea

Graphene oxide finds applications in different fields of science, including energy conversion. Electrochemical reduction of graphene oxide (GO) significantly improves its conductivity. However, the kinetics of this process depends on the…

We present a kinetic equation approach to investigate dc transport properties of graphene in the diffusive regime considering long-range electron-impurity scattering. In our study, the effects of interband correlation (or polarization) on…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei , Norman J. M. Horing

Disordered Fermi-Dirac distributions are used to model, within a straightforward and essentially phenomenological Boltzmann equation approach, the electron/hole transport across graphene puddles. We establish, with striking experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Moriconi , D. Niemeyer

We present a nonperturbative quasi-classical theory of graphene photoconductivity. We consider the influence of low-frequency (microwave, terahertz, mid-infrared) radiation on the static conductivity of a uniform graphene layer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 S. A. Mikhailov

Minimal conductivity of a single undoped graphene layer is known to be of the order of the conductance quantum, independent of the electron velocity. We show that this universality does not survive electron-electron interaction which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko

We investigate the conductivity of doped graphene in the semiclassical Boltzmann limit, as well as the conductivity minimum within the self-consistent transport theory. Using the hard-disk model for a two-dimensional distribution of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-21 Rastko Aničić , Zoran L. Mišković

Low-energy transport measurements in Quantum Hall systems have been argued to be governed by emergent modular symmetries whose predictions are robust against many of the detailed microscopic dynamics. We propose the recently-observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. P. Burgess , B. P. Dolan

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

We have calculated the optical conductivity of a disorder-free single graphene sheet in the presence of spin-orbit coupling, using the Kubo formalism. Both intrinsic and structural-inversion-asymmetry induced types of spin splitting are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-21 P. Ingenhoven , J. Z. Bernad , U. Zuelicke , R. Egger

We study the conductivity of graphene with a smooth but particle-hole-asymmetric disorder potential. Using perturbation theory for the weak-disorder regime and numerical calculations we investigate how the particle-hole asymmetry shifts the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Max Hering , Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer