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Here we analyze the electron transport properties of a device formed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges (ZGNRs) in a spin state with total magnetization different from zero. While the ground state of ZGNRs has been shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Sofia Sanz , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Thomas Frederiksen

The paper discusses the influence of the external in-plane electric and magnetic field on the ground state spin phase diagram of selected monolayer graphene nanostructures. The calculations are performed for triangular graphene nanoflakes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Karol Szałowski

We report on the possibility for a spin valve effect driven by edge defect engineering of zigzag graphene nanoribbons. Based on a mean-field spin unrestricted Hubbard model, electronic band structures and conductance profiles are derived,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sankaran Lakshmi , Stephan Roche , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Tailor-made graphene nanostructures can exhibit symmetry-protected topological boundary states that host localized spin-$1/2$ moments. However, one frequently observes charge transfer on coinage metal substrates, which results in spinless…

First principles calculations are used to establish that the electronic structure of graphene ribbons with zig-zag edges is unstable with respect to magnetic polarisation of the edge states. The magnetic interaction between edge states is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Pisani , J. A. Chan , B. Montanari , N. M. Harrison

Using a continuum Dirac theory, we study the density and spin response of zigzag edge terminated graphene ribbons subjected to edge potentials and Zeeman fields. Our analytical calculations of the density and spin responses of the closed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Somnath Bhowmick , Vijay B. Shenoy

It is known that there is a wide class of quasi-two-dimensional graphenelike nanomaterials which in many respects can outperform graphene. So, here in addition to graphene, the attention is directed to stanene (buckled honeycomb structure)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 S. Krompiewski

We investigate the effects of randomly distributed atomic defects on the magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges using an extended mean-field Hubbard model. For a balanced defect distribution among the sublattices of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 K. E. Çakmak , A. Altıntaş , A. D. Güçlü

Realizing magnetism in graphene/carbon nanostructures is a decade-long challenge. The magnetic edge state and half metallicity in zigzag graphene nanoribbons are particularly promising [Y.-W. Son, et al., Nature 444, 347 (2006)]. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Shiyuan Gao , Li Yang

Based on the $t$-$t'$-$t''$-$J$ model we have calculated the dynamical spin susceptibilities in the antiferromagnetic (AF) phase for electron-doped cuprates, by use of the slave-boson mean-field theory and random phase approximation.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Qingshan Yuan , T. K. Lee , C. S. Ting

The unusual electronic and optical properties of armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) subject to in-plane transverse electric and perpendicular magnetic fields have been systematically investigated. Our calculations were carried…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Thi-Nga Do , Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We investigate the effects of long-range potential fluctuations and electron-electron interactions on electronic and magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges using an extended mean-field Hubbard model. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 H. U. Özdemir , A. Altıntaş , A. D. Güçlü

Motivated by recent experiments of successfully carving out stable carbon atomic chains from graphene, we investigate a device structure of a carbon chain connecting two zigzag graphene nanoribbons with highly tunable spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Yuehua Xu , Bao-Ji Wang , San-Huang Ke

Herein, we investigate the structural, electronic and mechanical properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons upon the presence of stress applying Density Functional Theory within the GGA-PBE approximation. The uniaxial stress is applied along…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Ricardo Faccio , Pablo A. Denis , Helena Pardo , Cecilia Goyenola , Alvaro W. Mombru

The uniform static spin susceptibility in the paraphase of the one-band Hubbard model is calculated within a theory of magnetic short--range order (SRO) which extends the four-field slave-boson functional-integral approach by the trans-…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Trapper , D. Ihle , H. Fehske

A graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges has a gapped magnetic ground state with an antiferromagnetic inter-edge superexchange interaction. We present a theory based on asymptotic properties of the Dirac-model ribbon wavefunction which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 J. Jung , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. H. MacDonald

We determine the spin susceptibility in a two dimensional electron system in GaAs/AlGaAs over a wide range of low densities from 2$\times10^{9}$cm$^{-2}$ to 4$\times10^{10}$cm$^{-2}$. Our data can be fitted to an equation that describes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Zhu , H. L. Stormer , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

The topological phases of graphene with spin-orbit coupling, an exchange field, and a staggered-sublattice potential determine the properties of the edge states of the zigzag nanoribbon. In the presence of the Hubbard interaction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Ma Luo

Since graphene nanoribbons are thin and flimsy, they need support. Support gives firm ground for applications, and adhesion holds ribbons flat, although not necessarily straight: ribbons with high aspect ratio are prone to bend. The effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 Pekka Koskinen

Recent experimental findings and theoretical predictions suggest that nitrogen-doped CVD-grown graphene may give rise to electronic band gaps due to impurity distributions which favour segregation on a single sublattice. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Thomas Aktor , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power