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Article Citation - WoS: 12Citation - Scopus: 13Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Graphene Quantum Dots With Two Charged Vacancies(Elsevier, 2020) Kul, Erdoğan Bulut; Polat, Mustafa; Güçlü, Alev DevrimElectronic and magnetic properties of a system of two charged vacancies in hexagonal shaped graphene quantum dots are investigated using a mean-field Hubbard model as a function of the Coulomb potential strength ? of the charge impurities and the distance R between them. For ?=0, the magnetic properties of the vacancies are dictated by Lieb's rules where the opposite (same) sublattice vacancies are coupled antiferromagnetically (ferromagnetically) and exhibit Fermi oscillations. Here, we demonstrate the emergence of a non-magnetic regime within the subcritical region: as the Coulomb potential strength is increased to ??0.1, before reaching the frustrated atomic collapse regime, the magnetization is strongly suppressed and the ground state total spin projection is given by Sz=0 both for opposite and same sublattice vacancy configurations. When long-range electron–electron interactions are included within extended mean-field Hubbard model, the critical value for the frustrated collapse increases from ?cf?0.28 to ?cf?0.36 for R<27Å. © 2020 Elsevier LtdConference Object Graphene-Based Integrated Electronic, Photonic and Spintronic Circuit(SPIE, 2013) Potasz, P.; Güçlü, Alev Devrim; Özfidan, Işıl; Korkusinski, Marek; Hawrylak, PawelTo create carbon-based nanoscale integrated electronic, photonic, and spintronic circuit one must demonstrate the three functionalities in a single material, graphene quantum dots (GQDs), by engineering lateral size, shape, edges, number of layers and carrier density. We show theoretically that spatial confinement in GQDs opens an energy gap tunable from UV to THz, making GQDs equivalent to semiconductor nanoparticles. When connected to leads, GQDs act as single-electron transistors. The energy gap and absorption spectrum can be tuned from UV to THz by size and edge engineering and by external electric and magnetic fields. The sublattice engineering in, e.g., triangular graphene quantum dots (TGQDs) with zigzag edges generates a finite magnetic moment. The magnetic moment can be controlled by charging, electrical field, and photons. Addition of a single electron to the charge-neutral system destroys the ferromagnetic order, which can be restored by absorption of a photon. This allows for an efficient spin-photon conversion. These results show that graphene quantum dots have potential to fulfill the three functionalities: electronic, photonic, and spintronic, realized with different materials in current integrated circuits, as well as offer new functionalities unique to graphene.