Title
Electronic cloaking effect of localized states induced in graphene nanoribbons
Date Issued
01 August 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Mendoza M.
Universidad Federal del Sur y Sudeste de Pará
Publisher(s)
IOP Publishing Ltd
Abstract
The cloaking effect of electronic states was only reported in bilayer graphene. Here in this work we show that this effect can also be induced in armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs), by potential barriers that modulate the chirality property of the system (correlation between pseudospins). These barriers manipulate the chirality and generates pseudospin polarizations on the sides of the barrier, which leaves spatial regions in evidence, in which states behave differently. In AGNRs the extended states (ES), associated with the tunneling of Klein, use only some sites in the nanoribbon lattice (sublattice of ES). On the other hand, the barrier applied in the nanoribbon, induces states totally localized within the region of the barrier, these states use only the sites not used by the sublattice of ES. The localized states remain invisible for electronic transport for all the energies and characteristics of the barrier in the region of the first effective transport band, the same as the states are changing. This electronic cloaking effect can be suppressed by the application of a magnetic field, detecting in the conductance the previously invisible states in the form of Fano resonances. We discuss here the possibility of using this cloaking effect to generate mechanisms that can hide information or to activate hidden system effects.
Volume
33
Issue
33
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Física de la materia condensada
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85109837990
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
ISSN of the container
09538984
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