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The ground-state and the transport properties of graphene subject to the potential of in-plane charged impurities are studied. The screening of the impurity potential is shown to be nonlinear, producing a fractal structure of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 M. M. Fogler

We study the tunneling behavior of Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a double barrier potential profile created by spatially overlapping laser fields. By modulating the graphene sheet with an oscillating structure formed from two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder at half filling. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the symmetry of disorder. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We show that when graphene monolayers are disordered, the conductance exhibits a metallic-to-insulating transition, which opens the door to new electronic devices. The transition can be observed by driving the density or Fermi energy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-12-07 M. Hilke

The effect of substitution atoms on the energy spectrum and the electrical conductivity of graphene was investigated in a Lifshitz one-electron tight-binding model. It is established that the ordering of impurity atoms results in a gap in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-05 S. P. Repetsky , I. G. Vyshyvana , S. P. Kruchinin , R. M. Melnyk , A. P. Polishchuk

We theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 K. Kechedzhi , S. Das Sarma

We study transport in undoped graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential both within a simple continuum model and using numerical tight-binding calculations. The continuum model demonstrates that the conductivity of the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 P. Burset , A. Levy Yeyati , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We develop a theory of drag in graphene double layers near charge neutrality. We work in the regime of electron hydrodynamics and account for interlayer correlations of charge puddle disorder. The drag resistivity is expressed in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Dmitry Zverevich , Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

We study the conductivity of graphene with a smooth but particle-hole-asymmetric disorder potential. Using perturbation theory for the weak-disorder regime and numerical calculations we investigate how the particle-hole asymmetry shifts the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Max Hering , Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer

Using the closed-time path integral approach, we nonperturbatively study inelastic tunneling of electrons via magnetic impurities in the barrier accompanied by phonon emission in a magnetic tunnel junction. The spectrum density of phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing , D. N. Sheng

Disordered Fermi-Dirac distributions are used to model, within a straightforward and essentially phenomenological Boltzmann equation approach, the electron/hole transport across graphene puddles. We establish, with striking experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Moriconi , D. Niemeyer

We present a technique to fabricate tunnel junctions between graphene and Al and Cu, with a Si back gate, as well as a simple theory of tunneling between a metal and graphene. We map the differential conductance of our junctions versus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 C. E. Malec , D. Davidovic

The carriers in graphene tuned close to the Dirac point envisage signatures of the strongly interacting fluid and are subject to hydrodynamic description. The important question is whether strong disorder induces the metal-insulator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokinski

A transfer matrix method is presented for solving the scattering problem for the quasi one-dimensional massless Dirac equation applied to graphene in the presence of an arbitrary inhomogeneous electric and perpendicular magnetic field. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Sameer Grover , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

We compute the optical conductivity for an out-of-plane deformation in graphene using an approach based on solutions of the Dirac equation in curved space. Different examples of periodic deformations along one direction translates into an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 A. J. Chaves , T. Frederico , O. Oliveira , W. de Paula , M. C. Santos

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions through gapped graphene through a magnetic barrier irradiated by a laser field oscillating in time. We use Floquet theory and the solution of Weber's differential equation to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

Using the self-consistent Born approximation to the Dirac fermions under finite-range impurity scatterings, we show that the current-current correlation function is determined by four-coupled integral equations. This is very different from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-10 Xin-Zhong Yan , Yousef Romiah , C. S. Ting

We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We review the physics of charged impurities in the vicinity of graphene. The long-range nature of Coulomb impurities affects both the nature of the ground state density profile as well as graphene's transport properties. We discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

Extended defects in graphene, such as linear edges, break the translational invariance and can also have an impact on the symmetries specific to massless Dirac-like quasiparticles in this material. The paper examines the consequences of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 Grigory Tkachov , Martina Hentschel