Catching the bound states in the continuum of a phantom atom in graphene

LH Guessi, RS Machado, Y Marques, LS Ricco… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We explore theoretically the formation of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in graphene
hosting two collinear adatoms situated at different sides of the sheet and at the center of the …

Quantum phase transition triggering magnetic bound states in the continuum in graphene

LH Guessi, Y Marques, RS Machado, K Kristinsson… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Graphene hosting a pair of collinear adatoms in the phantom atom configuration has density
of states vanishing in the vicinity of the Dirac point which can be described in terms of the …

Quantum-confined electronic states in atomically well-defined graphene nanostructures

SK Hämäläinen, Z Sun, MP Boneschanscher… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
Despite the enormous interest in the properties of graphene and the potential of graphene
nanostructures in electronic applications, the study of quantum-confined states in atomically …

Analog of atomic collapse for adatoms on rhombohedral multilayer graphene

WC Silva, JE Sanches, AM Freitas, LT Lustosa… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose that a multigraphene of ABC-type stacking yields virtual bound states lying
within the Coulomb insulating gap of an Anderson-like adatom. Wondrously, a virtual state …

Quantum dots in AA-stacked bilayer graphene

HS Qasem, HM Abdullah, MA Shukri, H Bahlouli… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
While electrostatic confinement in single-layer graphene and AA-stacked bilayer graphene
is precluded by Klein tunneling and the gapless energy spectrum, we theoretically show that …

Electrical dipole on gapped graphene: Bound states and atomic collapse

R Van Pottelberge, B Van Duppen, FM Peeters - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We investigate the energy spectrum, wave functions, and local density of states of an
electrical dipole placed on a sheet of gapped graphene as function of the charge strength Z …

Observation of novel edge states in photonic graphene

MC Rechtsman, Y Plotnik, D Song, M Heinrich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
The intriguing properties of graphene, a two-dimensional material composed of a
honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years …

Spatially resolving density-dependent screening around a single charged atom in graphene

D Wong, F Corsetti, Y Wang, VW Brar, HZ Tsai, Q Wu… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Electrons in two-dimensional graphene sheets behave as interacting chiral Dirac fermions
and have unique screening properties due to their symmetry and reduced dimensionality. By …

Wigner localization in a graphene quantum dot with a mass gap

KA Guerrero-Becerra, M Rontani - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
In spite of unscreened Coulomb interactions close to charge neutrality, relativistic massless
electrons in graphene allegedly behave as noninteracting particles. A clue to this paradox is …

Lorentzian quantum wells in graphene: The role of shape invariance in zero-energy-state trapping

F Correa, L Inzunza, V Jakubský - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Confining Dirac fermions in graphene using electrostatic fields is a challenging task. Electric
quantum dots created by a scanning tunneling microscope tip can trap zero-energy …