Adatoms and Anderson localization in graphene

被引:12
作者
Garcia, Jose H. [1 ]
Uchoa, Bruno [2 ]
Covaci, Lucian [3 ]
Rappoport, Tatiana G. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Inst Fis, BR-21941972 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
[2] Univ Oklahoma, Dept Phys & Astron, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[3] Univ Antwerp, Dept Fys, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2014年 / 90卷 / 08期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
TRANSITION; STATES; TRANSPORT; SYSTEMS; ABSENCE;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.90.085425
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We address the nature of the disordered state that results from the adsorption of adatoms in graphene. For adatoms that sit at the center of the honeycomb plaquette, as in the case of most transition metals, we show that the ones that form a zero-energy resonant state lead to Anderson localization in the vicinity of the Dirac point. Among those, we show that there is a symmetry class of adatoms where Anderson localization is suppressed, leading to an exotic metallic state with large and rare charge droplets, that localizes only at the Dirac point. We identify the experimental conditions for the observation of the Anderson transition for adatoms in graphene.
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