It is shown that a “vacuum polarization” induced by Coulomb potential in graphene leads to a strong suppression of electric charges even for undoped case (no charge carriers). A standard linear response theory is therefore not applicable to describe the screening of charge impurities in graphene. In particular, it overestimates essentially the contributions of charge impurities into the resistivity of graphene.

• Received 1 September 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.201401