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We study the effect of impurity scattering effect in black phosphorurene (BP) in this work. For single impurity, we calculate impurity induced local density of states (LDOS) in momentum space numerically based on tight-binding Hamiltonian.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Y. L. Zou , J. T. Song , C. X. Bai , K. Chang

We calculate the local density of states (LDOS) for an infinite graphene sheet with a single centro-symmetric out-of-plane deformation, in order to investigate measurable strain signatures on graphene. We focus on the regime of small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Martin Schneider , Daiara Faria , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Nancy Sandler

Local electrical imaging using microwave impedance microscope is performed on graphene in different modalities, yielding a rich hierarchy of the local conductivity. The low-conductivity graphite oxide and its derivatives show significant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Worasom Kundhikanjana , Keji Lai , Hailiang Wang , Hongjie Dai , Michael A. Kelly , Zhi-xun Shen

We consider an electron coupled to a random distribution of point vortices in the plane (magnetic impurities). We analyze the effect of the magnetic impurities on the density of states of the test particle, when the magnetic impurities have…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jean Desbois , Cyril Furtlehner , Stéphane Ouvry

We have carried out scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on exfoliated monolayer graphene on SiO$_2$ to probe the correlation between its electronic and structural properties. Maps of the local density of states are characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-19 A. Deshpande , W. Bao , F. Miao , C. N. Lau , B. J. LeRoy

Motivated by the recently observed sublattice asymmetry of substitutional nitrogen impurities in CVD grown graphene, we show, in a mathematically transparent manner, that oscillations in the local density of states driven by the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 James A. Lawlor , Paul D. Gorman , Stephen R. Power , Claudionor G. Bezerra , Mauro S. Ferreira

We review recent developments in our understanding of how impurities influence the electronic states in the bulk of superconductors. Our focus is on the quasi-localized states in the vicinity of impurity sites in conventional and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Balatsky , I. Vekhter , Jian-Xin Zhu

The electronic structure, bonding and magnetism in graphene containing vacancies are studied using density-functional methods. The single-vacancy graphene ground state is spin polarized and structurally flat. The unpolarized state is non…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-11 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana , Marek Z. Zgierski

A model is proposed to study the electronic structure of slightly curved graphene sheets with an arbitrary number of pentagon-heptagon pairs and Stone-Wales defects based on a cosmological analogy. The disorder induced by curvature produces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We have carried out ab initio electronic structure calculations on graphane (hydrogenated graphene) with single and double vacancy defects. Our analysis of the density of states reveal that such vacancies induce the mid gap states and…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 Bhalchandra S. Pujari , D. G. Kanhere

The properties of neutral acceptor states in zinc-blende semiconductors are re-examined in the frame of extended-basis $sp^3d^5s^*$ tight-binding model. The symmetry discrepancy between envelope function theory and atomistic calculations is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. O. Nestoklon , O. Krebs , R. Benchamekh , P. Voisin

We report the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems made of graphene nanoribbons which are patterned with ad-atoms in two separated regions. Due to the extra electronic confinement induced by the presence of the impurities, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 J. W. González , L. Rosales , M. Pacheco , A. Ayuela

One considers the effect of disorder on the 2-dimensional density of states of an electron in a constant magnetic field superposed onto a Poissonnian random distribution of point vortices. If one restricts the electron Hilbert space to the…

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

We have studied the electronic and local magnetic structure of the hydrogen interstitial impurity at the tetrahedral site in diamond-structure Ge, using an empirical tight binding + dynamical mean field theory approach because within the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-11 H. Sims , E. R. Ylvisaker , E. Şaşıoğlu , C. Friedrich , S. Blügel , W. E. Pickett

The conduction electron density of states nearby single magnetic impurities, as measured recently by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), is calculated, taking into account tunneling into conduction electron states only. The Kondo effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Újsághy , J. Kroha , L. Szunyogh , A. Zawadowski

In this review we focus on the effect of the Dirac nature of graphene quasiparticles on two separate aspects. The first of these involves transport across superconducting graphene junctions with barriers of thickness $d_0$ and arbitrary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-11 M. Maiti , K. Saha , K. Sengupta

The local density of states (LDOS) and its Fourier component induced by a unitary impurity in a supercurrent-carrying d-wave superconductor are investigated. Both of these quantities possess a reflection symmetry about the line passing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting , C. -R. Hu

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We investigate the mutual influence of impurities in two-dimensional d-wave superconductors involving self-consistent solutions of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The local order parameter suppression, the local density of states (LDOS)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Michelucci , F. Venturini , A. P. Kampf