Impurity induced Dirac point smearing in graphene
It is shown that in a two-dimensional system with the linear dispersion a resonance is present in the Dirac point vicinity, when the impurity perturbation magnitude exceeds the bandwidth. The corresponding spectrum rearrangement, which follows at a certain critical impurity concentration, results...
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Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2007, v. 33, No. 9, p. 1002–1007
Impurity induced Dirac point smearing in graphene
Yuriy V. Skrypnyk
Kurdyumov Institute of Metal Physics, 36 Vernadsky Ave., Kyiv 03680, Ukraine
E-mail: skrypnyk@i.com.ua
Vadim M. Loktev
Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 14-b Metrolohichna Str., Kyiv 03680, Ukraine
Received January 25, 2007
It is shown that in a two-dimensional system with the linear dispersion a resonance is present in the Dirac
point vicinity, when the impurity perturbation magnitude exceeds the bandwidth. The corresponding spec-
trum rearrangement, which follows at a certain critical impurity concentration, results in the square root de-
pendence of the concentration smearing region width on the concentration. If the perturbation magnitude
does not exceed the bandwidth, or the critical concentration is not reached, the concentration smearing re-
gion width remains exponentially small.
PACS: 71.23.An Theories and models; localized states;
71.30.+h Metal–insulator transitions and other electronic transitions.
Keywords: graphene, Dirac spectrum, impurity, spectrum rearrangement.
Introduction
Graphene is a material that has been obtained around
two years ago [1]. It looks especially fresh when com-
pared to other traditional subjects of investigation in solid
state physics. New theoretical questions connected with
this material immediately formed a nucleus for the area of
active research. Intriguing properties of graphene are cal-
ling upon their prompt explanation not only because of
the pure scientific interest, but also because of the highly
possible forthcoming practical implementation of this
material.
It is well known that the localizing action of impurity
centers is, generally speaking, more pronounced in low-
dimensional systems. However, a number of experiments
evidently demonstrate that graphene, which is the first
truly two-dimensional system, is highly tolerant to impu-
rity effects. Basically, the effect of impurities on elemen-
tary excitation spectra in disordered systems is deter-
mined by the quotient of the system’s dimensionality and
the exponent in its dispersion relation. When this quotient
is larger than one and half, the system possesses an in-
creased dimensionality, and it behaves like a low-dimen-
sional when the quotient is less than unity [2,3]. Because
of the unusual linear electron dispersion close to the Fer-
mi level, graphene should manifest some properties that
are characteristic to four-dimensional systems, which is
favorable for the localization reduction. Based on the
proven method of cluster expansions, we suggest possible
clues for the unique robustness of graphene to the impu-
rity induced perturbation and describe the process of the
spectrum rearrangement, which occurs on increasing the
impurity concentration.
The spectrum rearrangement has been studied for a
large variety of disordered systems [4–6]. The physical
reason of this phenomenon roots in the spatial overlap of
the impurity states that have large effective radii. The im-
purity state radius can far exceed the lattice constant,
when its energy is close to any of the van Hove singulari-
ties in the spectrum. This overlap results in a qualitative
change in the dispersion of carriers and the density of
states of the disordered system. Our study is dedicated to
the 90th anniversary of I.M. Lifshitz, whose contribution
to the physics of disordered systems can not be overem-
phasized.
Model
A model for the host should be simple enough in order
to make a certain advance in analytical calculations, and,
at the same time, it should retain all the physics of the
electron subsystem in graphene that is essential for the
© Yuriy V. Skrypnyk and Vadim M. Loktev, 2007
impurity problem. It has been confirmed by ARPES [7,8]
that the electron dispersion in graphene can be quite suc-
cessfully reproduced within the tight-binding scheme by
taking into account only the nearest neighbors hopping.
As it follows from this approach, the total electron den-
sity of states (DOS) � �( ) in the pure graphene sheet de-
pends linearly on energy � in the vicinity of the Dirac
point, i.e., � � �( ) ~ | |. This result is indirectly supported
by the unconventional quantum Hall effect in graphene
[9,10] and has been verified by strait measurements [7]. It
will be assumed below that this linear behavior of the
DOS is maintained for the whole energy range inside the
adjacent bands, which preserves their actual symmetry in
the unperturbed system. In addition, because of the sym-
metry of the underlying honeycomb graphene lattice, di-
agonal elements of the Green’s function (GF) must
be identical on both sublattices, g gn n n n1 1 2 2( ) ( )� �� ,
where numbers denote sublattices, and n ranges over lat-
tice cells. Since � �( ) is the sum of the DOSs for the
corresponding sublattices � �� ( ), it should be demanded
that
� �
�
� � � � � � �� � � �
�
( ) ( ) | | , ( ) ( )� � � �
�
1
1
2
Im gn n , (1)
where � is some constant. The normalization condition for
the conduction band implies that
� � ��
� �
�
1
2
0
1
W
d( ) , (2)
whereW is the bandwidth. The same holds true for the va-
lence band as well. These relations define the value of the
constant �,
� � � � � � � � �
�
� � �
�
� � � �
W
W
d d
W
W
0
0
2
22
1
2
( ) ( ) , ( )
| |
. (3)
In a turn, real parts of the diagonal elements of the host
GF must comply with the Kramers–Kronig relation
Re g
W
d d
W
W
n n� � �
�
� �
�
�
� �
�( ) �
�
� �
�� �
�
� �
�
�
�
��
�
�
�
�
�
1
2
0
0
�
�
�
�
� �
�W W2
2
2 2
ln .
(4)
Combining the obtained results, finally one has
g
W W
in n� � �
� �
�
� �( ) ln ( )�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�2
2
2 2
sign . (5)
The introduced magnitude W should be brought into cor-
respondence, at least qualitatively, with the factual band-
width in graphene. It had been mentioned already that the
graphene Hamiltonian with the interaction between near-
est neighbors t yields a reasonable approximation for the
electron dispersion law. According to it, in the close vi-
cinity of the Dirac point
�( ) , , ,k � � � �� �v k v
at
kaF F
3
2
1 1� , (6)
where the vertex of the Dirac cone is taken as the refer-
ence point for the wave vector k, and a is the lattice con-
stant [11]. Because there are two nonequivalent Dirac
cones in the Brillouin zone of graphene, the correspond-
ing tight-binding DOS is given by
� �
�
� �
�
�
�t b F
a
dk k v k
t
� �
�
�
�
�
�
�
� � � �
( ) (| | )
| |
, | |2
3
4
2
3
2
2
� 3t .
(7)
The total DOS in the devised model should match at the
low energies with the latter expression. Both DOSs agree
with each other, when
W t� 3� . (8)
Thus, the bandwidth in the model with the triangular DOS
is noticeably less than the graphene bandwidth, which is
equal to 3t within the tight-binding approximation. This
result should be expected, since the triangular DOS mani-
fests the unnatural rise towards the band edges. However,
our analysis will be focused only on the effects at the low
energies, where this model is fully adequate. So, the
meaningful expression for the diagonal elements of the
GF in the host reads (cp. (5))
g
W W
i Wn n� � �
� �
� � �( ) ln ( ) ,�
�
�
�
�
�
�
� �
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
��
2
2
2
sign . (9)
From here and on we let the bandwidth W be unity, which
specifies the energy scale.
As regards the impurity perturbation, we take for
granted that it can be described within the well-known
model of a substitutional binary alloy with the diagonal
disorder. The origin of this model can be traced back to
the pioneering works of Lifshitz [12]. According to it, im-
purities are supposed to be distributed absolutely at ran-
dom in space. On-site potentials are allowed to attain only
two different values depending on the type of the atom
that is occupying the respective lattice site. In the asym-
metric scheme of the impurity perturbation, the on-site
potentials are VL with the probability c, which corre-
sponds to impurities, or 0 with the probability 1� c, which
corresponds to host atoms. Thus, the full tight-binding
Hamiltonian of the disordered system can be expressed as
the sum of the translationally invariant host Hamiltonian
H 0 and the impurity induced perturbation H imp ,
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Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2007, v. 33, No. 9 1003
H H H H
n
n n� � � � 0 imp imp,
,
†V c cL
�
� � , (10)
where cn�
† and cn� are electron creation and annihilation
operators at the lattice site situated on the sublattice � in
the cell with radius-vector n. The prime over the summa-
tion sign denotes that the summation in (10) is restricted
to those sites that are occupied by impurities. The local
character of the impurity perturbation justifies the choice
of the simplified model with the triangular DOS for the
host.
Single impurity problem
Let us consider the case of an isolated single impurity
in the otherwise undistorted graphene lattice. It is not dif-
ficult to calculate the diagonal element of the GF
� � � �(� H)
1 at the lattice site the impurity is positioned
right on,
�0
0
0
0
1
( )
( )
( )
, ( ) ( )�
�
�
� �� ��
�
�
g
V g
g g
L
n n . (11)
The corresponding expression for the local density of
states (LDOS) at the impurity site can be unfolded by sub-
stituting the model host GF (9) into this relation,
� �
�
�
�
� � � �
imp Im
ln
( ) ( )
| |
( | | ) ( )
� � �
� �
1
1 2
0 2 2
�
V VL L
.
(12)
It is evident, that for the sufficiently large impurity per-
turbation VL there is a marked peak in the impurity site
LDOS. The energy � r , at which this peak is situated, is de-
termined, as it should be, by the renowned Lifshitz equa-
tion,
1 20� �V g VL r L r rRe ( ) ln | |� � � . (13)
The peak at � r sits above the Dirac point, when the param-
eterVL � 0, and vice versa. This unusual positioning prop-
erty holds true for arbitrary two symmetric bands, which
touch each other at a certain energy. The denominator in
(12) can be expanded about � r:
� �
�
� � � �
� �
imp ( )
| |
[ ] [( ) ]
,
| |
| ln
�
� �
�
�
�
�
�r
L r r r
r
r
V
2
2 2 2 2 1 | | |
,
� r
(14)
when the condition
�
�
�
�r
r
r r
� �
�
��
�
| | | ln | | |21
1 (15)
is met. The inequality (15) will be fulfilled provided the
energy � r is in the narrow vicinity of the Dirac point. Ac-
cording to (13), this corresponds to a large in the absolute
value VL. The physics of the condition (15) lies in the
smallness of the effective impurity state damping �r com-
pared to the distance from the energy � r to the nearest van
Hove singularity in the spectrum, which role plays the
Dirac point in the present case. This means, that the state
with � r can be regarded as a well-defined impurity reso-
nance, when the condition (15) holds. Simultaneously,
the LDOS is getting the Lorentz shape near the resonance
energy. In contrast, a well-defined resonance state cannot
appear near the band edge of two- and three-dimensional
single-band systems with the common quadratic disper-
sion of electrons within the Lifshitz model (10) for any
possible combination of impurity and host parameters.
The difference � �( ) between the total DOS of the sin-
gle impurity system and the host can be also calculated
analytically:
� �
�
�
� �
�
( )
( )
( )
( )
�
�
�
��
�
�
�� �
� �
V
N
dg
d V g
V
L
L
L
Im
sign
0
0
1
1
( )
[( ln | | ) ( ) ]
.
1 2
1 2 2 2
�
� �
V
N V V
L
L L
�
� � ��
(16)
It is not hard to check that electron states of the host
are redistributed within their respective bands. For, say,
VL � 0, some amount of states is removed from the va-
lence band to the split off local level, while in the conduc-
tion band states are pushed from its both sides towards the
resonance energy.
There is a pronounced step in � �( ) near the Dirac
point, which is combined with the negative dip. Since the
host DOS is zero (see (1)) at the Dirac point and is rather
small in its neighborhood, the close vicinity of the Dirac
point can not be properly described by a straightforward
expansion of the impurity system GF in powers of the
concentration, as it was done in [13], even if the impurity
concentration is negligibly small. This is quite clear from
the obvious fact that the width of this negative dip is of
the same order as the resonance state damping �r . There-
fore, other approaches should be utilized to study impu-
rity effects on the graphene spectrum in the vicinity of the
Dirac point.
Finite impurity concentration
Only renormalized approaches, the most widely used
among them is the coherent-potential approximation
(CPA) [14], can be efficient close to the van Hove singu-
larities in the spectrum of a disordered system. The
renormalization is necessary not only to take into account
the effective shift of the singularity position, but mainly
to properly describe the nonuniform shift of adjacent
states at a finite impurity concentration. Of course, same
applies to the neighborhood of the Dirac point in
graphene. Since the CPA does not contain an applicability
criterion in itself, the method of cluster expansions
[15,16] will be used to go beyond the CPA and to estimate
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its validity. Averaged over impurity distributions GF of
the disordered system G is related to the host GF by the
Dyson equation
G g g G� � ! . (17)
Because the translational invariance is restored by the
configurational averaging, the self-energy ! can be ex-
panded into a series as follows:
!�" �" �"� # #( ) ( )( ) ( )
k k� � �$1 2
, (18)
where the momentum-independent # ( )1 is the CPA
self-energy,
#
# � #
( )
( ) ( )( ) ( )
1
1
0
11
�
� � �
cV
V g
L
L
, (19)
which is to be determined self-consistently, and #�"
( )
( )
2
k
represents the contribution from scatterings on all possi-
ble pair impurity clusters:
# � � �
% %
% %�" �"
&
� � � �
� �
( )
,
( )
2
2
0
2
0
2
01
k
G G
G
n n
n
�
� l
l m
m
l m
l m G
G G
G G
nn
n n
n n
� �� �
� " " �
� " "
% %
% %
00
2 2
0
2
0
0 01
'
�
�
�
��
�
�
l m
l m �" �n
kn
'
�
�
�
��
0
e i . (20)
Here the single-site T-matrix is denoted by
%
#
# � #
l
l
l
V
V g
�
�
� � �
( )
( ) ( )( ) ( )
1
1
0
11
,
(21)
and indices l and m enumerate two atom types of the bi-
nary alloy. According to this index, the factor � l attains
the value c for the impurities or 1� c for the host atoms,
while the variable Vl is VL or 0, respectively.
Thorough analysis of the series for the self-energy in-
dicates that this expansion indeed has the small parame-
ter. As a rough guide, the self-energy series can be consid-
ered as a geometric progression with the common ratio
R l
l
l( )� � % � "
" �
�
'
2
0
2
0
G n
n
, (22)
and the scale factor # ( )1 . On approaching any van Hove
singularity, the contribution from cluster scattering is in-
creasing in magnitude. As follows from the above treat-
ment, terms corresponding to the cluster scattering can be
omitted if their sum does not exceed by the absolute value
the CPA self-energy # ( )1 [17],
| ( )|R � ( )1 2 . (23)
This inequality outlines those energy domains, where the
CPA is applicable. If the criterion (23) is fulfilled, only
the first single-site term can be retained in the series.
Moreover, at the low impurity concentration, the multi-
ple-occupancy corrections that are incorporated into the
CPA expression can be also neglected. Thus, the so-called
method of the modified propagator can be employed (cp.
(19)),
! � �
� �
��# #
� #
I,
( )
,
cV
V g
cL
L1
1
0
. (24)
Because just the close vicinity of the Dirac point is exam-
ined, the diagonal element of the host GF can be taken in
the form (9). Then, by means of the conventional substitu-
tion � # * +� � exp ( )i , 0 � �+ �, the imaginary part of (24)
becomes
cV
V
L
L
2 2 2
1 2 2
[ ln ( ) ]
[ ( ln cos ( ) sin )
* + � +
* * + + � +
� � �
� � � �
cot
]
[ ( ln sin ( ) cos )] .
2
22 2 0
�
� � � �VL* * + + � + (25)
If (25) is considered as an equation in the unknown +, it
always has two solutions for each chosen modulus *, start-
ing from a certain threshold value of *, which depends on c
andVL. These solutions correspond to the two actual bands
in the system. Respective values of � are then determined
by the real part of (24), which constitutes together with
(25) the parametric solution of (24):
cV V
V
L L
L
[ ( ln cos ( ) sin )]
[ ( ln cos (
1 2 2
1 2 2
� � �
� �
* * + + � +
* * + + � � � �
� �
� + * * + + � +
* + �
) sin )] [ ( ln sin ( ) cos )]
cos
2 22 2VL
. (26)
Accordingly, the applicability criterion in the same vari-
ables reads
| ( )|
ln
ln
R
i
�
* +
�
* +
�
+
�
� � �
�
�
�
�
�
� �
�
�
�
�
�
,
,
,
,
,,
,
,
1
2
2
cot
,
,
,,
(
1
2
. (27)
The spectrum rearrangement can be outlined by simple
estimations. At a first glance, it may seem that � #� � cVL
can serve as a solution of (24). In reality, it is easy to as-
certain that none of the analytical solutions of (24) is
passing through this point. However, there is always an
energy in the spectrum, at which Re ( )� #� � 0. Indeed,
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Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2007, v. 33, No. 9 1005
the damping Im # at this energy is essentially nonzero and
is given by (24),
1
2
1 2
0
2
0
0 0
2
�
�
�
cV
V
L
L
ln
( ln )
*
* *
. (28)
At the low impurity concentration the denominator can be
replaced by unity. Thus,
*0
21 2� � )exp ( ( ))cVL . (29)
Correspondingly, it follows from (25) that Re # � cVL.
Therefore, the Dirac point gradually shifts away from the
resonance with increasing the concentration. Generally
speaking, the width of the concentration smearing region
around � � cVL, where the applicability criterion (23) is
violated, should be also of the order of *0.
Both | |cVL and *0 are increasing with the concentra-
tion and, when they are straightforwardly extrapolated,
simultaneously reach the resonance energy by the order
of magnitude. This turns obvious when the expression
(29) is recast as * * *0 0 02� � c V VL L| | ( | | ln ). The corre-
sponding impurity concentration - -c r r0
22� � �ln | | can be
taken as a rough estimate for the critical concentration of
the spectrum rearrangement. At the impurity concentra-
tion far exceeding this value (c c.. 0), the unity in the de-
nominator of fraction in (28) can be omitted. As a result,
the size of the concentration smearing region depends
exclusively on the concentration:
*0 02~ |ln |,c c c c) .. . (30)
The spectrum near the Dirac point can be described in
more detail at c c�� 0. For the small *near the Dirac point
(25) is reduced to
ln cot*
�
+ +� � � �
�
�
�
�
�
1
2 22cVL
. (31)
Respectively, the equation (26) simplifies to
�
� / 0 + *
+
� �
�
cV
cV
L
L2 2( )
sin
. (32)
Combined, they implicitly yield the energy dependence of
the phase,
�
� / 0 +
+
�/ 0 + +
� �
� � �
cV cVL L
cV
L
( )
sin
( )cot
/ ( )e
e2 2 1 2 2
. (33)
Likewise, it follows from the criterion (27) that the width
of the concentration smearing region is exponentially
small:
R
cV
L�
� �
e
1 4 12/ ( )
.
(34)
By equating two main parameters in (33) with some arbi-
trary constant 1,
cV c VL
cV
L
L2 1 2 2
e
�
�
/ ( )
| |1 , (35)
the critical concentration of the spectrum rearrangement
can be estimated more precisely:
c
V V
r
L L
� �
)
1
2 2 ln ( | | )1
, (36)
which practically coincides with the former rough guess
c0.
Several examples of results that can be obtained by
calculations based on (25)–(27) are presented in Fig. 1.
The unperturbed density of states is depicted by the dot-
dashed line. The fact that the symmetry between the con-
duction and the valence band is lost at any impurity con-
centration immediately arrests one’s attention. The con-
centration smearing regions are shown by dashed lines.
Initially, only one such region opens up around the Dirac
point. In addition, the second one opens near the reso-
nance energy. Both regions merge after a small increase in
the concentration. After that, the spectrum outside of the
broad concentration smearing region practically does not
depend on the magnitude of the impurity perturbation.
The fast growth of the concentration smearing region
~ c was also obtained in [18] in a special case of the infi-
nite in magnitude perturbation VL. Despite the single-im-
purity resonance, the spectrum rearrangement proceeds
by the anomalous type in much the same way to the
scenario described in [19].
Conclusion
To summarize, for the moderate impurity perturbation
(VL � 1) resonance states does not appear, the spectrum re-
arrangement does not take place at all, and the width of
the concentration smearing region is exponentially small
compared to the bandwidth in the whole considered range
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–0.10 –0.05 0 0.05 0.10
�
0
0.05
0.10
0.15
0.20
�
Fig. 1. DOS for VL � �8 at c c nn
r� � � $2 1 3, (cr � 00005. ).
of impurity concentrations. In contrast, for the large im-
purity perturbation (VL . 1), a resonance state due to a sin-
gle impurity is manifested in the vicinity of the Dirac
point. Still, the width of the concentration smearing re-
gion remains exponentially small until the concentration
exceeds the critical value cr . Then, the width of the con-
centration smearing region starts to grow fast in magni-
tude, namely, proportional to c, which means that the
spectrum rearrangement of the anomalous type, which is
inherent in low-dimensional systems, does take place.
One of the authors (Yu.V.S.) is grateful to B.L. Alt-
shuler and L.A. Pastur for valuable discussions. This
work was partially supported by the Scientific Program
«Nanostructural Systems, Nanomaterials and Nanotech-
nologies» of the National Academy of Sciences of Uk-
raine (grant No. 10/07-N).
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