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We revisit the problem of bound states in graphene under the influence of point electric monopole and dipole impurity potentials extended to the case in which the membrane of this material is uniformly and uniaxially strained, which leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , E. Díaz-Bautista , A. Raya , D. Valenzuela

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

The effect of electron-electron interaction on the low-temperature conductivity of graphene is investigated experimentally. Unlike in other two-dimensional systems, the electron-electron interaction correction in graphene is sensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. Kozikov , A. K. Savchenko , B. N. Narozhny , A. V. Shytov

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

In this work we analyze the effects of the application of an external electric field in the formation of a local magnetic moment in silicene. By adding an impurity in a top site in the host lattice and computing the real and imaginary part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Villarreal Julian , Escudero Federico , Ardenghi Juan Sebastian , Jasen Paula

We study the effect of impurities in inducing spin-orbit coupling in graphene. We show that the sp3 distortion induced by an impurity can lead to a large increase in the spin-orbit coupling with a value comparable to the one found in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

We separate localization and interaction effects in epitaxial graphene devices grown on the C-face of a 4H-SiC substrate by analyzing the low temperature conductivities. Weak localization and antilocalization are extracted at low magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. Jouault , B. Jabakhanji , N. Camara , W. Desrat , C. Consejo , J. Camassel

The growing interest in carbon-based spintronics has stimulated a number of recent theoretical studies on the RKKY interaction in graphene, with the aim of determining the most energetically favourable alignments between embedded magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 P. D. Gorman , J. M. Duffy , M. S. Ferreira , S. R. Power

The tunable band structure and nontrivial topology of multilayer rhombohedral graphene lead to a variety of correlated electronic states with isospin orders-meaning ordered states in the combined spin and valley degrees of freedom-dictated…

We theoretically investigate the effect of the non-magnetic and magnetic impurities to the 2D parabolic Dirac system. The induced charge density by the charged impuri- ty is obtained by the linear response theory within the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Chen-Huan Wu

We use quantum Monte Carlo method to study the indirect coupling between two magnetic impurities on the zigzag edge of graphene ribbon, with respect to the chemical potential $\mu$. We find that the spin-spin correlation between two adatoms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-02 J. H. Sun , F. M. Hu , H. K. Tang , W. Guo , H. Q. Lin

We have investigated the electronic and magnetic response of a single Fe atom and a pair of interacting Fe atoms placed in patterned dehydrogenated channels in graphane within the framework of density functional theory. We have considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 Soumyajyoti Haldar , Dilip G. Kanhere , Biplab Sanyal

In the absence of a magnetic field, scattered wavefunction inside a circular p-n junction in graphene exhibits an interference pattern with high intensity maximum located around the caustics. We investigate the wavefunctions in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

The effects of intrinsic spin-orbit and Coulomb interactions on low-energy properties of finite width graphene armchair ribbons are studied by means of a Dirac Hamiltonian. It is shown that metallic states subsist in the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-01 Mahdi Zarea , Nancy Sandler

Two magnetic impurities on the edge of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon strongly interact with each other via indirect coupling, which can be mediated by conducting carriers. By means of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we find that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-09 F. M. Hu , Liangzhi Kou , Thomas Frauenheim

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

Recent experimental findings and theoretical predictions suggest that nitrogen-doped CVD-grown graphene may give rise to electronic band gaps due to impurity distributions which favour segregation on a single sublattice. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Thomas Aktor , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

In graphene devices with a varying degree of disorders as characterized by their carrier mobility and minimum conductivity, we have studied the thermoelectric power along with the electrical conductivity over a wide range of temperatures.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Deqi Wang , Jing Shi

The intercalation of an oxide barrier between graphene and its metallic substrate for chem- ical vapor deposition is a contamination-free alternative to the transfer of graphene to dielectric supports, usually needed for the realization of…

Strong nonmagnetic impurities on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) generate localized resonance peaks close to the Dirac point. We show that this results in a strongly reduced critical Coulomb interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Dmitry Yudin