Critical behavior for point monopole and dipole electric impurities in uniformily and uniaxially strained graphene

Abstract

We revisit the problem of bound states in graphene under the influence of point electric monopole and dipole impurity potentials extended to the case in which the membrane of this material is uniformly and uniaxially strained, which leads to a redefinition of the charge and dipole moment, respectively. By considering an anisotropic Fermi velocity, we analytically solve the resulting Dirac equation for each potential. We observe that the effect of the anisotropy is to promote or inhibit the critical behavior known to occur for each kind of impurity, depending on the direction along which strain is applied: both the atomic collapse, for the monopole impurity, and the emergence of cascades of infinitely many bound states with a universal Efimov-like scaling, for the dipole impurity, are phenomena that occur under less or more restrictive conditions due to strain.

9 pages, 5 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev.B

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