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Impurities, which are inherently present in any real material, may play an important role in the magnetism of frustrated spin systems with spin-liquid ground states. We address the impurity issue in quantum kagome antiferromagnets by…

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Electrons in graphene have fourfold spin and valley degeneracies owing to the unique bipartite honeycomb lattice and an extremely weak spin-orbit coupling, which can support a series of broken symmetry states. Atomic-scale defects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Yu Zhang , Liangguang Jia , Yaoyao Chen , Lin He , Yeliang Wang

It is pointed out that point defects on graphene are strongly correlated and can not be treated as independent scatters. In particular, for large on-site defect potential, it is shown that defects induce an impurity band with density of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Bor-Luen Huang , Chung-Yu Mou

Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe in graphene, at energies close to the Dirac point, is analyzed. It is shown that, in clean systems, the orthogonality catastrophe is suppressed, due to the vanishing density of states at the Dirac point.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-06 Martina Hentschel , Francisco Guinea

A theory of magnetic impurities in a 2D electron gas quantized by a strong magnetic field is formulated in terms of Friedel-Anderson theory of resonance impurity scattering. It is shown that this scattering results in an appearance of bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Dahan , V. Fleurov , K. Kikoin , I. D. Vagner

The local density of states (LDOS) around a magnetic impurity in high-Tc superconductors is studied using the two-dimensional t-J model with a realistic band structure. The order parameters are determined in a self-consistent way within the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroki Tsuchiura , Yukio Tanaka , Masao Ogata , Satoshi Kashiwaya

We investigate ground and excited state transport through small (d = 70 nm) graphene quantum dots. The successive spin filling of orbital states is detected by measuring the ground state energy as a function of a magnetic field. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-09 J. Guettinger , T. Frey , C. Stampfer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We have performed the numerical modeling of Ge(111)-(2x1) surface electronic properties in vicinity of P donor impurity atom located near the surface. We have found a notable increase of surface $LDOS$ around surface dopant near the bottom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 S. V. Savinov , A. I. Oreshkin , S. I. Oreshkin

We address local inelastic scattering from vibrational impurity adsorbed onto graphene and the evolution of the local density of electron states near the impurity from weak to strong coupling regime. For weak coupling the local electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 J. Fransson , J. -H. She , L. Pietronero , A. V. Balatsky

The influence of isolated impurity atoms on the electron energy spectrum in a parabolic quantum dot in quantizing magnetic field is studied. The impurity potential is approximated by a Gaussian separable operator which allows one to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 A. M. Ermolaev , G. I. Rashba

We theoretically investigate the spin resolved Friedel oscillation (FO) and quasiparticle interference (QPI) in graphene induced by an Anderson impurity. Once the impurity becomes magnetic, the resulted FO becomes spin dependent, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Shuai Li , Jin-Hua Gao

Combining density-functional theory calculations and microscopic tight-binding models, we investigate theoretically the electronic and magnetic properties of individual substitutional transition-metal impurities (Mn and Fe) positioned in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-18 M. R. Mahani , M. Fhokrul Islam , A. Pertsova , C. M. Canali

A magnetic atomic impurity inside a superconductor locally distorts superconductivity. They scatter Cooper pairs as a potential with broken time-reversal symmetry, what leads to localized bound states with subgap excitation energies, named…

Graphene has attracted a great interest in material science due to its novel electronic structrues. Recently, magnetism discovered in graphene based systems opens the possibility of their spintronics application. This paper provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 Erjun Kan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

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 consider a one-dimensional (1D) wire along which single conduction electrons can propagate in the presence of two spin-1/2 magnetic impurities. The electron may be scattered by each impurity via a contact-exchange interaction and thus a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Ciccarello , G. M. Palma , M. Zarcone , Y. Omar , V. R. Vieira

The localization of electrons in the field of isolated nonmagnetic impurity atoms on the surface of a nanotube in a magnetic field is considered. A model of a Gaussian separable impurity potential capable of localizing an electron at any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 G. I. Rashba

Unitary limit for model point scatterers in graphene is known to reveal low-energy resonances. The same limit could be achieved from hybridization of band electrons with the localized impurity level positioned in the vicinity of the Fermi…

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

The charged and magnetic states of isolated impurities dissolved in amorphous metallic alloy are investigated. The Hamiltonian of the system under study is the generalization of Anderson impurity model. Namely, the processes of elastic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 G. V. Ponedilok , M. I. Klapchuk

Motivated by high-accuracy scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on disordered two-dimensional electron gases in strong magnetic field, we present an exact solution for the local density of states (LDoS) of electrons moving in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 Thierry Champel , Serge Florens