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Tunneling Effect in Gapped Graphene Disk in Magnetic Flux and Electrostatic Potential

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2021-12-15 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the tunneling effect of a Corbino disk in graphene in the presence of a variable magnetic flux Φi\Phi_{i} created by a solenoid piercing the inner disk under the effect of a finite mass term in the disk region (R1<r<R2) (R_1< r<R_2) and an electrostatic potential. Considering different regions, we explicitly determine the associated eigenspinors in terms of Hankel functions. The use of matching conditions and asymptotic behavior of Hankel functions for large arguments, enables us to calculate transmission and other transport quantities. Our results show that the energy gap suppresses the tunneling effect by creating singularity points of zero transmission corresponding to the maximum shot noise peaks quantified by the Fano factor F F . The transmission as a function of the radii ratio R2/R1 R_2/R_1 becomes oscillatory with a decrease in periods and amplitudes. It can even reach one (Klein tunneling) for large values of the energy gap. The appearance of the minimal conductance at the points kFR1=R1δ k_F R_1=R_1 \delta is observed. Finally we find that the electrostatic potential can control the effect of the band gap.

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@article{arxiv.2108.01159,
  title  = {Tunneling Effect in Gapped Graphene Disk in Magnetic Flux and Electrostatic Potential},
  author = {A. Babe Cheikh and A. Bouhlal and A. Jellal and E. H. Atmani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.01159},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures