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We have investigated the Coulomb screening properties and plasmon spectrum in a bilayer graphene under a perpendicular electric bias. The bias voltage applied between the two graphene layers opens a gap in the single particle energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-04 Xue-Feng Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

In this work, we estimate the effect of photoinduced screening breakdown of the Coulomb potential mediated by plasmons. In contrast to previous studies, we consider the contribution from the divergence of renormalized inverse electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-31 Anatoley T. Zheleznyak , Tom Wallace

Graphene and few-layer graphene at high bias expose a wealth of phenomena due to the high temperatures reached. With in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) we observe directly how the current modifies the structure, and vice versa.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 Amelia Barreiro , Felix Boerrnert , Mark H. Ruemmeli , Bernd Buechner , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

The charge distribution induced by external fields in finite stacks of graphene planes, or in semiinfinite graphite is considered. The interlayer electronic hybridization is described by a nearest neighbor hopping term, and the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Guinea

Graphene multilayers exhibit electronic spectra that depend sensitively on both the number of layers and their stacking order. Beyond trilayer graphene, mixed stacking sequences (alternating Bernal and rhombohedral layers) give rise to…

Most experimental studies to date of multilayer epitaxial graphene on C-face SiC have indicated that the electronic states of different layers are decoupled as a consequence of rotational stacking. We have measured the third order nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Dong Sun , Julien Rioux , J. E. Sipe , Yang Zou , Momchil Mihnev , Claire Berger , Walt A. de Heer , Phillip N. First , Theodore B. Norris

The polarization and the susceptibility of a ferroelectric multilayer with a non-ferroelectric slab are investigated within the framework of transverse Ising model with a four-spin interaction term. The effect of the thickness and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Yin-Zhong Wu , Dong-Lai Yao , Wen Dong , Zhen-Ya Li

We investigate the emerging consequences of an applied strong in-plane electric field on a macroscopically large graphene sheet subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, by determining in exact analytical form various many-body…

General Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Georgios Konstantinou , Konstantinos Moulopoulos

Electron interactions in undoped bilayer graphene lead to instability of the gapless state, `which-layer' symmetry breaking, and energy gap opening at the Dirac point. In contrast to single layer graphene, the bilayer system exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

The report presents the results of using the nonperturbative kinetic approach to describe the excitation of plasma oscillations in a graphene monolayer. As examples the constant electric field as well as an electric field of short…

Resonant scatterers such as hydrogen adatoms can strongly enhance the low energy density of states in graphene. Here, we study the impact of these impurities on the electronic screening. We find a two-faced behavior: Kubo formula…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 Shengjun Yuan , T. O. Wehling , A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson

Nonlinear screening of electric depolarization fields, generated by a stripe domain structure in a ferroelectric grain of a polycrystalline material, is studied within a semiconductor model of ferroelectrics. It is shown that the maximum…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-14 Yuri A. Genenko , Ofer Hirsch , Paul Erhart

The generation of non-equilibrium electron spin polarization, spin transport, and spin detection are fundamental in many quantum devices. We demonstrate that a lattice of magnetic nanodots enhances the electron spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Tim Anlauf , Marta Prada , Stefan Freercks , Bojan Bosnjak , Robert Frömter , Jonas Sichau , Hans Peter Oepen , Lars Tiemann , Robert H. Blick

We solve a nonlinear integral equation for the electrostatic potential in doped graphene due to an external charge, arising from a Thomas-Fermi (TF) model for screening by graphene's $\pi$ electron bands. In particular, we study the effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 M. Ghaznavi , Z. L. Miskovic , F. O. Goodman

Graphene possesses a unique combination of physical properties including high carrier mobility and high current density it can sustain. In contrast to bulk metals, graphene does not completely screen the external electrostatic field. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Alexander Khitun

A charged particle whose energy is less than the electric potential step it is incident upon, is expected to undergo partial reflection and transmission. In bilayer graphene, however, a potential step in the form of an antisymmetric kink…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 J. C. Martinez , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

When electrons populate a flat band their kinetic energy becomes negligible, forcing them to organize in exotic many-body states to minimize their Coulomb energy. The zeroth Landau level of graphene under magnetic field is a particularly…

Interband optical transitions in graphene are subject to pseudospin selection rules. Impulsive excitation with linearly polarized light generates an anisotropic photocarrier occupation in momentum space that evolves at timescales shorter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 M. Trushin , A. Grupp , G. Soavi , A. Budweg , D. De Fazio , U. Sassi , A. Lombardo , A. C. Ferrari , W. Belzig , A. Leitenstorfer , D. Brida

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras

The interfacial screening charge that arises to compensate electric fields of dielectric or ferroelectric thin films is now recognized as the most important factor in determining the capacitance or polarization of ultrathin ferroelectrics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew F. Chisholm , Weidong Luo , Mark P. Oxley , Sokrates T. Pantelides , Ho Nyung Lee