• 文献标题:   Vacuum polarization and screening of supercritical impurities in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHYTOV AV, KATSNELSON MI, LEVITOV LS
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Brookhaven Natl Lab
  • 被引频次:   166
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.236801
  • 出版年:   2007

▎ 摘  要

Screening of charge impurities in graphene is analyzed using the exact solution for vacuum polarization obtained from the massless Dirac-Kepler problem. For the impurity charge below a certain critical value, no density perturbation is found away from the impurity, in agreement with perturbation theory. For the supercritical charge, however, the polarization distribution is shown to have a power law profile, leading to screening of the excess charge at large distances. The Dirac-Kepler scattering states give rise to standing wave oscillations in the local density of states which are prominent in the supercritical regime.