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    Stable local moments of vacancies, substitutional and hollow site impurities in graphene

    , Article Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ; Volume 27, Issue 15 , 2015 ; 09538984 (ISSN) Mashkoori, M ; Jafari, S. A ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Physics Publishing  2015
    Abstract
    The two-sublattice nature of graphene lattice in conjunction with three-fold rotational symmetry, allows for the p-wave hybridization of the impurity state with the Bloch states of carbon atoms. Such an opportunity is not available in normal metals where the wave function is scalar. The p-wave hybridization function V (-k) appears when dealing with vacancies, substitutional adatoms and the hollow site impurities while the s-wave mixing on graphene lattice pertains only to the top site impurities. In this work, we compare the local moment formation in these two cases and find that the local moments formed by p-wave mixing compared to the s-wave one are robust against the changes in the...