• 文献标题:   Long-Range Interaction between Adatoms in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHYTOV AV, ABANIN DA, LEVITOV LS
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Utah
  • 被引频次:   74
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.016806
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We present a theory of electron-mediated interaction between adatoms in graphene. In the case of resonant scattering, relevant for hydrogenated graphene, a long-range 1/r interaction is found. This interaction can be viewed as a fermionic analog of the Casimir interaction, in which massless fermions play the role of photons. The interaction is an attraction or a repulsion depending on whether the adatoms reside on the same sublattice or on different sublattices, with attraction dominating for adatoms randomly distributed over both sublattices. The attractive nature of these forces creates an instability under which adatoms tend to aggregate.