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A De Martino1, L Dell'Anna, R Egger
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Abstract:
Because of Klein tunneling, electrostatic potentials are unable to confine Dirac electrons. We show that it is possible to confine massless Dirac fermions in a monolayer graphene sheet by inhomogeneous magnetic fields. This allows one to design mesoscopic structures in graphene by magnetic barriers, e.g., quantum dots or quantum point contacts.
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