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We present a computational study on the topology, energetics and structural deformations for a large number of experimentally observed defect configurations in graphene. We find that both the number of lost hexagonal carbon rings and…

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We reveal that the origin of ferromagnetism caused by $sp$ electrons in graphene with vacancies can be traced to electrons partially filling $sp^{2*}$-antibonding and $p_z^*$-nonbonding states, which are induced by the vacancies and appear…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-30 Wei Xu , J. G. Che

Investigations of the magnetic properties of graphenes prepared by different methods reveal that dominant ferromagnetic interactions coexist along with antiferromagnetic interactions in all the samples. Thus, all the graphene samples…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-04-20 H. S. S. Ramakrishna Matte , K. S. Subrahmanyam , C. N. R. Rao

The quantum Hall effect is observed in a two-dimensional electron gas formed in millimeter-scale hydrogenated graphene, with a mobility less than 10 $\mathrm{cm^{2}/V\cdot s}$ and corresponding Ioffe-Regel disorder parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 J. Guillemette , S. S. Sabri , B. Wu , K. Bennaceur , P. E. Gaskell , M. Savard , P. L. Lévesque , F. Mahvash , A. Guermoune , M. Siaj , R. Martel , T. Szkopek , G. Gervais

Magnetic order emerging in otherwise non-magnetic materials as carbon is a paradigmatic example of a novel type of s-p electron magnetism predicted to be of exceptional high-temperature stability. It has been demonstrated that atomic scale…

Magnetism typically arises from the effect of exchange interactions on highly localized fermionic wave functions in f- and d-atomic orbitals. In rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG), in contrast, magnetism-manifesting as spontaneous…

Different instabilities have been speculated for a three-dimensional electron gas confined to its lowest Landau level. The phase transition induced in graphite by a strong magnetic field, and believed to be a Charge Density Wave (CDW), is…

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The formation energy and local magnetic moment of a series of point defects in CaB$_6 $ are computed using a supercell approach within the generalized gradient approximation to density functional theory. Based on these results, speculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Monnier , B. Delley

The low temperature magnetoresistance of graphene functionalized by an array of magnetic Terbium Phthalocyanines molecules is found to exhibit a magnetic field-dependent 1/f noise, along with universal conductance fluctuations (UCFs)…

Graphene is one of the most promising 2D materials for various applications due to its unique electronic properties and high thermal stability. In previous studies, it was shown that when graphene is deposited onto some transition metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Tianbai Li , Jory A. Yarmoff

We report a theoretical low-field magnetotransport study unveiling the effect of pseudospin in realistic models of weakly disordered graphene-based materials. Using an efficient Kubo computational method, and simulating the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Frank Ortmann , Alessandro Cresti , Gilles Montambaux , Stephan Roche

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

We present the studies of magnetic properties of 2 MeV 4He+-irradiated GaN grown by metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition. Particle irradiation allowed controllable introduction of Ga-vacancy in the samples. The magnetic moments with…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-29 L. Kilanski , F. Tuomisto , R. Szymczak , R. Kruszka

We present a first-principles study of the migration and recombination of edge defects (carbon adatom and/or vacancy) and their influence on electrical conductance in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs). It is found that at room…

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In this work, we have studied the chemical and magnetic interactions of Fe$_n$ ; n=1-6 clusters with vacancy defects (monovacancy to correlated vacancies with six missing C atoms) in a graphene sheet by ab-initio density functional…

Antiferromagnetism in stacked nanographite is investigated with using the Hubbard-type models. The A-B stacking or the stacking near to that of A-B type is favorable for the hexagonal nanographite with zigzag edges, in order that magnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Kikuo Harigaya , Toshiaki Enoki

When high-frequency radiation is incident upon graphene subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, graphene absorbs incident photons by allowing transitions between nearest LLs that follow strict selection rules dictated by angular…

The phase diagram of graphene decorated with magnetic adatoms distributed either on a single sublattice, or evenly over the two sublattices, is computed for adatom concentrations as low as $\sim1\%$. Within the framework of the $s$-$d$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Frederico J. Sousa , B. Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro

Vortex is a universal and significant phenomenon that has been known for centuries. However, creating vortices to the atomic limit has remained elusive because that the characteristic length to support a vortex is usually much larger than…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Yu Zhang , Lin He

A principal motivation to develop graphene for future devices has been its promise for quantum spintronics. Hyperfine and spin-orbit interactions are expected to be negligible in single-layer graphene. Spin transport experiments, on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Mark B. Lundeberg , Rui Yang , Julien Renard , Joshua A. Folk