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We address the problem of an unscreened Coulomb charge in graphene, and calculate the local density of states and displaced charge as a function of energy and distance from the impurity. This is done non-perturbatively in two different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-17 Vitor M. Pereira , Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

We discuss the fact that quantum capacitance of graphene-based devices leads to variation of it's charge density under changes of external magnetic field.The charge is conserved, but redistributes to substrate or other graphene sheet. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Sergey Slizovskiy

The effect of a magnetic field on the charged vacuum is investigated. The field dependence of the energy levels causes jumps in the total vacuum charge that occur whenever an energy level crosses the Fermi level and this leads to re-entrant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. A. Maksym , H. Aoki

We use a combination of charge writing and scanning gate microscopy to map and modify the local charge neutrality point of graphene field-effect devices. We give a demonstration of the technique by writing remote charge in a thin dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 M. R. Connolly , E. D. Herbschleb , R. K. Puddy , M. Roy , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones , P. Maksym , C. G. Smith

Screening of a large external charge in graphene is studied. The charge is assumed to be displaced away or smeared over a finite region of the graphene plane. The initial decay of the screened potential with distance is shown to follow the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 M. M. Fogler , D. S. Novikov , B. I. Shklovskii

Graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) material with unique electronic properties, appears to be an ideal object for the application of surface-science methods. Among them, a family of scanning probe microscopy methods (STM, AFM, KPFM) and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-30 Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina , Mikhail Fonin

We report the observation of an isolated charged impurity in graphene and present direct evidence of the close connection between the screening properties of a 2D electron system and the influence of the impurity on its electronic…

A variety of two-dimensional materials possess a band structure with an energy extremal ridge along a ring in momentum space. Examples are biased bilayer graphene, and surfaces and interfaces with a Rashba spin-orbit interaction where at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

We study the effects of an in-plane magnetic field on the ground state properties of both gapless and gapped graphene sheets within Random Phase Approximation. The critical magnetic field which leads to a fully spin polarized phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-01 A. Qaiumzadeh , Reza Asgari

Screening is one of the fundamental concepts in solid state physics. It has a great impact on the electronic properties of graphene where huge mobilities were observed in spite of the large concentration of charged impurities. While static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Marinko Jablan , Marin Soljacic , Hrvoje Buljan

Graphene is a monolayer graphitic film in which electrons behave like two-dimensional Dirac fermions without mass. Its study has attracted a wide interest in the domain of condensed matter physics. In particular, it represents an ideal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 William Borrelli , Umberto Morellini

We calculate the long-wavelength static screening properties of both neutral and doped graphene in the framework of density-functional theory. We use a plane-wave approach with periodic images in the third dimension and truncate the Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Thibault Sohier , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We calculate the static polarizability of multilayer graphene and study the effect of stacking arrangement, carrier density, and onsite energy difference on graphene screening properties. At low densities, the energy spectrum of multilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-14 Hongki Min , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The influence of screening on the condensed state of bilayer graphene is studied within the framework of the Thomas Fermi approximation. We find that screening has little effect on the Kosterlitz-Thouless temperature in the strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 R. Bistritzer , H. Min , J. J. Su , A. H. MacDonald

This paper is aimed to study the influence of electromagnetic field and tilted congruences on the dynamical features of self-gravitating system. We shall explore the stability of homogeneous energy density in the background of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-05 Z. Yousaf

The unique properties of graphene offer immense opportunities for applications to many scientific fields, as well as societal needs, beyond our present imagination. One of the important features of graphene is the relatively simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-27 Otakar Frank , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Martin Kalbac

We outline a Kohn-Sham-Dirac density-functional-theory (DFT) scheme for graphene sheets that treats slowly-varying inhomogeneous external potentials and electron-electron interactions on an equal footing. The theory is able to account for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-23 Marco Polini , Andrea Tomadin , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

We describe a technique which allows a direct measurement of the relative Fermi energy in an electron system using a double layer structure, where graphene is one of the two layers. We illustrate this method by probing the Fermi energy as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Seyoung Kim , Insun Jo , D. C. Dillen , D. A. Ferrer , B. Fallahazad , Z. Yao , S. K. Banerjee , E. Tutuc

The screening of a test charge by partially degenerate non-ideal free electrons at conditions related to warm dense matter and dense plasmas is investigated using linear response theory and the local field correction based on ab inito…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Zhandos Moldabekov , Tobias Dornheim , Michael Bonitz

Graphene has extraordinary mechanical and electronic properties, making it a promising material for membrane based nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Here, chemical-vapor-deposited graphene is transferred onto target substrates to…