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Published on: July 15, 2019
The electronic transport efficiency of a graphene charge carrier guider and an Aharanov-Bohm interferometer
Xuan Wei1, Wen-Jing Zhang1, Shu-Guang Cheng1
1Department of Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The electrostatic gating defined channel in graphene forms a charge carrier guider. We theoretically investigated electronic transport properties of a single channel and an Aharanov-Bohm (AB) interferometer, based on a charge carrier guider in a graphene nanoribbon. Quantized conductance is found in a single channel, and the guider shows high efficiency in the optical fiber regime, in good agreement with the experiment results. For an AB interferometer without a magnetic field, quantized conductance occurs when there are a few modes inside the channel. The local density of states (LDOS) inside the AB interferometer shows quantum scars when the scattering is strong. At low magnetic field, a periodical conductance oscillation appears. The conductance has a maximum value at zero magnetic field in the absence of intravalley scattering. The mechanism was investigated by LDOS calculations and a toy model.
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