Topological conditions for impurity effects in graphene nanosystems

Abstract

We consider electronic spectra of graphene nanotubes and their perturbation by impurity atoms absorbed at different positions on nanotube surfaces, within the framework of Anderson hybrid model. A special attention is given to the cases when Dirac-like 1D modes appear in the nanotube spectrum and their hybridization with localized impurity states produces, at growing impurity concentration $c$, onset of a mobility gap near the impurity level and even opening, at yet higher $c$, of some narrow delocalized range within this mobility gap. Such behaviors are compared with the similar effects in the previously studied 2D graphene and armchair type graphene nanoribbons. Some possible practical applications are discussed.