Quantum-Hall spectroscopy of elliptically deformed graphene nanobubble qubits

With recent advances in strain-engineering technology of graphene and 2D materials, graphene quantum dots (QDs) defined by the strain-induced pseudo-magnetic fields have been of interest, with the feasibility of tunable graphene qubits (Parket al2023Quantum Sci. Technol.8025012). Here, we theoretically investigate how the electronic states of the nanobubble QDs are influenced by the geometrical anisotropy of the elliptical-shape nanobubbles. We examine the energy levels of the single and double QD (DQD) spectra by varying the elliptical deformation along the zigzag (x) and armchair (y) directions, respectively. We found that the single and DQD show distinguished behavior with regard to the direction of the elliptical deformation. While the single QD levels are substantially affected by they-directional deformation, the DQD levels are largely shifted by thex-directional deformation.