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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

We study the effects that ripples induce on the electrical and magnetic properties of graphene. The variation of the interatomic distance created by the ripples translates in a modulation of the hopping parameter between carbon atoms. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 M. Pilar López-Sancho , Luis Brey

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

We consider the orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on electrons in bilayer graphene, deriving linear-in-field contributions to the low-energy Hamiltonian arising from the presence of either skew interlayer coupling or interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Narjes Kheirabadi , Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

A tight-binding approach based on the Chebyshev-Bogoliubov-de Gennes method is used to describe disordered single-layer graphene Josephson junctions. Scattering by vacancies, ripples or charged impurities is included. We compute the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 W. A. Munoz , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

We investigate the effects of randomly distributed atomic defects on the magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges using an extended mean-field Hubbard model. For a balanced defect distribution among the sublattices of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 K. E. Çakmak , A. Altıntaş , A. D. Güçlü

The issue of whether local magnetic moments can be formed by introducing adatoms into graphene is of intense research interest because it opens the window to fundamental studies of magnetism in graphene, as well as of its potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 X. Hong , K. Zou , B. Wang , S. -H. Cheng , J. Zhu

We study the changes in the electronic structure induced by lattice defects in graphene planes. In many cases, lattice distortions give rise to localized states at the Fermi level. Electron-electron interactions lead to the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. P. Lopez-Sancho , T. Stauber , F. Guinea

We present an accurate measurement and a quantitative analysis of electron-beam induced displacements of carbon atoms in single-layer graphene. We directly measure the atomic displacement ("knock-on") cross section by counting the lost…

We have used scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to investigate two types of hydrogen defect structures on monolayer graphene supported by hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) in a gated field-effect transistor configuration. The first H-defect…

Magnetism in nanographenes (also know as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs) are studied with first principles density functional calculations. We find that an antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase appears as the PAH reaches a certain size.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-09-27 De-en Jiang , Bobby G. Sumpter , Sheng Dai

The magnetic effects in ferromagnetic graphene basically depend on the principle of exchange interaction when ferromagntism is induced by depositing an insulator layer on graphene. Here we deal with the consequences of non-uniformity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Debashree Chowdhury , B Basu

Using density functional calculations we have investigated the local spin moment formation and lattice deformation in graphene when an isolated vacancy is created. We predict two competing equilibrium structures: a ground state planar…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-13 Haricharan Padmanabhan , B. R. K. Nanda

We present a magneto-transport study of graphene samples into which a mild disorder was introduced by exposure to ozone. Unlike the conductivity of pristine graphene, the conductivity of graphene samples exposed to ozone becomes very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Moser , H. Tao , S. Roche , F. Alsina , C. M. Sotomayor Torres , A. Bachtold

The derived by us earlier electron scattering matrix for the short-range defects in monolayer graphene is applyed to description of the resistivity electron density dependence. It is argued that large charged defect density is unlikely in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

Measurement of magnetic oscillations on thermodynamic quantities (like magnetization and specific heat), is one of the experimental methods to access the density of states of electronic systems. In the present paper we therefore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Z. Z. Alisultanov , M. S. Reis

The independent predictions of edge ferromagnetism and the Quantum Spin Hall phase in graphene have inspired the quest of other two dimensional honeycomb systems, such as silicene, germanene, stanene, iridiates, and organometallic lattices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier

We study the effect of extended charge defects in electronic transport properties of graphene. Extended defects are ubiquitous in chemically and epitaxially grown graphene samples due to internal strains associated with the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 A. Ferreira , Xiangfan Xu , Chang-Lin Tan , Sukang Bae , N. M. R. Peres , Byung-Hee Hong , Barbaros Ozyilmaz , A. H. Castro Neto

We investigated the orbital magnetic moment of electron in the hydrogen atom in deformed space with minimal length. It turned out that corrections to the magnetic moment caused by deformation depend on one parameter in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-14 M. M. Stetsko , V. M. Tkachuk

We show that, in graphene with a small concentration of adatoms, the total magnetic moment $\mu_T$ can be switched on and off by varying the Fermi energy $E_F$, either by applying a gate voltage or by suitable chemical doping. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 N. A. Pike , D. Stroud
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