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The influence of magnetic impurities on the transport properties of graphene is investigated in the regime of strong applied electric fields. As a result of electron-hole pair creation, the response becomes nonlinear and dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Arnaud Demion , Alberto D. Verga

We consider the problem of screening of an electrically charged impurity in a clean graphene sheet. When electron-electron interactions are neglected, the screening charge has a sign opposite to that of the impurity, and is localized near…

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The geometry of two-dimensional crystalline membranes dictates their mechanical, electronic and chemical properties. The local geometry of a surface is determined from the two invariants of the metric and the curvature tensors. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Alejandro A. Pacheco Sanjuan , Zhengfei Wang , Hamed Pour Imani , Mihajlo Vanević , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

We investigate the effect of magnetic impurities on the local quasiparticle density of states (LDOS) in iron-based superconductors. Employing the two-orbital model where 3$d$ electron and hole conduction bands are hybridizing with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-26 Alireza Akbari , Ilya Eremin , Peter Thalmeier

Screening of charge impurities in graphene is analyzed using the exact solution for vacuum polarization obtained from the massless Dirac-Kepler problem. For the impurity charge below certain critical value no density perturbation is found…

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Inherent symmetries of a system lead to multiple degeneracies of its energy spectra. Introducing individual atomic impurities can locally break these symmetries, which is expected to lift the degenerate degrees of freedom around the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Yu Zhang , Qi-Qi Guo , Si-Yu Li , Lin He

We theoretically study the atomic structure and energetics of silicon and silicon-nitrogen impurities in graphene. Using density-functional theory, we get insight into the atomic structures of the impurities, evaluate their formation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Mikko M. Ervasti , Zheyong Fan , Andreas Uppstu , Arkady Krasheninnikov , Ari Harju

We calculate self-consistently the local density of states (LDOS) of a d-wave superconductor considering the scattering of the quasiparticles off randomly distributed impurities and off externally induced vortices. The impurities and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Lages , P. D. Sacramento

We determine the effect of quasiparticle interference on the spatial variations of the local density of states (LDOS) in graphite in the neighborhood of an isolated impurity. A number of characteristic behaviors of interference are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristina Bena , Steven A. Kivelson

We report nanocrystalline carbon impurities coexisting with graphene synthesized via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on platinum. We observe micron-size island-like impurity layers, which can easily be mistaken for second graphene layers in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Jinglei Ping , Michael S. Fuhrer

In this work, we investigate the local effects of a single short-range impurity on the electron system of a short ballistic graphene Josephson Junction. Within the Dirac-Bogoliubov-De Gennes approach, we systematically analyze the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Ignazio Vacante , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , Giuseppe A. Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

Understanding the magnetic properties of graphenic nanostructures is instrumental in future spintronics applications. These magnetic properties are known to depend crucially on the presence of defects. Here we review our recent theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Elton J. G. Santos , Andres Ayuela , Daniel Sanchez-Portal

We present calculations of the thermal and electric linear response in graphene, including disorder in the self-consistent t-matrix approximation. For strong impurity scattering, near the unitary limit, the formation of a band of impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-29 Tomas Lofwander , Mikael Fogelstrom

Anderson impurity problem is considered for a graphene bilayer subject to a gap-opening bias. In-gap localized states are produced even when the impurity level overlaps with the continuum of band electrons. The effect depends strongly on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 V. V. Mkhitaryan , E. G. Mishchenko

We study theoretically the effects of short-range electron-electron interactions on the electronic structure of graphene, in the presence of single substitutional impurities. Our computational approach is based on the $\pi$ orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Faluke Aikebaier , Anna Pertsova , Carlo M. Canali

We study the electronic and structural properties of substitutional impurities of graphenelike nanoporous materials C$_2$N, $tg$-, and $hg$-C$_3$N$_4$ by means of density functional theory calculations. We consider four types of impurities;…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-21 Saif Ullah , Pablo A. Denis , Marcos G. Menezes , Fernando Sato , Rodrigo B. Capaz

Motivated by recent studies reporting the formation of localized magnetic moments in doped graphene, we investigate the energetic cost for spin polarizing isolated impurities embedded in this material. When a well-known criterion for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Venezuela , R. B. Muniz , A. T. Costa , D. M. Edwards , S. R. Power , M. S. Ferreira

We study the impurity states in bilayer graphene in the unitary limit using Green's function method. Unlike in single layer graphene, the presence of impurities at two non-equivalent sites in bilayer graphene produce different impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Hari P. Dahal , A. V. Balatsky , Jian-Xin Zhu

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