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Magnetic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Due to 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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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610290,
  title  = {Magnetic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in graphene},
  author = {A. De Martino and L. Dell'Anna and R. Egger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610290},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, version to appear in PRL