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The persistent current for a one-dimensional ring with two tunnel barriers is considered in the limit of weakly interacting electrons. In addition to a small off-resonance current, there are two kinds of resonant behavior; (i) a current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 I. V. Krive , P. Sandström

The absence of backscattering in metallic nanotubes as well as perfect Klein tunneling in potential barriers in graphene are the prominent electronic characteristics of carbon nanostructures. We show that the phenomena can be explained by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 Vit Jakubsky , Luis-Miguel Nieto , Mikhail S. Plyushchay

We study quantum tunneling through a potential barrier whose height fluctuates in time and is modeled by Gaussian white noise. We map the stochastic dynamics onto an equivalent time-independent Lindblad equation for the density matrix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kamal Azaidaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , A. Al Luhaibi , Michael Vogl

We present the first principle calculations of the electrical properties of graphene sheet/h-BN heterojunction(GS/h-BN) and 11-armchair graphene nanoribbon heterojunction(11-AGNR/h-BN), which were carried out using the density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Taiga Wakai , Shoichi Sakamoto , Mitsuyoshi Tomiya

The paper discusses the chiral tunnelling of charge carriers through double barrier structure in twisted graphene bilayer. The theoretical analysis investigates the transmission probability for various system parameters under both symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 A. Bahlaoui , Y. Zahidi

The resonant tunneling phenomenon is well understood in quantum mechanics. We argue why a similar phenomenon must be present in quantum field theory. We then use the functional Schr\"odinger method to show how resonant tunneling through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 S. -H. Henry Tye , Daniel Wohns

The characteristics of tunnel junctions formed between n- and p-doped graphene are investigated theoretically. The single-particle tunnel current that flows between the two-dimensional electronic states of the graphene (2D-2D tunneling) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. M. Feenstra , Debdeep Jena , Gong Gu

In this work, we study the resonant tunneling (RT) of electrons and H atoms in double-barrier (DB) systems. Our numerical calculations directly verify the correspondence between the resonant tunneling energies and the energy levels of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Wei Li , Yong Yang

Realistic relaxed configurations of triaxially strained graphene quantum dots are obtained from unbiased atomistic mechanical simulations. The local electronic structure and quantum transport characteristics of y-junctions based on such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Zenan Qi , D. A. Bahamon , Vitor M. Pereira , Harold S. Park , D. K. Campbell , A. H. Castro Neto

In this comprehensive study, we undertake a thorough theoretical examination of the electronic subband structures within cove-edged zigzag graphene nanoribbons (CZGNRs) using the tight-binding model. These unique nanostructures arise from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 David M T Kuo

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

The perfect transmission of charge carriers through potential barriers in graphene (Klein tunneling) is a direct consequence of the Dirac equation that governs the low-energy carrier dynamics. As a result, localized states do not exist in…

We demonstrate gate-tunable resonant tunneling and negative differential resistance between two rotationally aligned bilayer graphene sheets separated by bilayer WSe2. We observe large interlayer current densities of 2 uA/um2 and 2.5…

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in graphene is governed by Klein tunneling, a relativistic quantum process in which particle-hole transmutation leads to unusual anisotropic transmission at pn junction boundaries. Reflection and…

Resonant electronic transmission through graphene-based double barriers (wells) is studied as a function of the incident wave vector, the widths and heights (depths) of the barriers (wells), and the separation between them. Resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Milton Pereira , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We theoretically investigate phosphorene zigzag nanorribons as a platform for constriction engineering. In the presence of a constriction at the upper edge, quantum confinement of edge protected states reveals resonant tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 C. J. Páez , D. A. Bahamon , Ana L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

We consider the phenomenon of quantum charge pumping of electrons across a superconducting double barrier structure in graphene in the adiabatic limit. In this geometry, quantum charge pumping can be achieved by modulating the amplitudes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

Theoretical research on electronic properties in mesoscopic condensed matter systems has focused primarily on the electron charge freedom degrees, while its corresponding spin freedom degrees have not yet received the same attention.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 H. Paredes Gutíerrez , S. T. Pérez-Merchancano , G. E. Marques

Chiral tunneling through a harmonically driven potential barrier in graphene monolayer is considered in this work. Since the quasiparticles in this system are chiral in nature, tunneling is highly anisotropic, we determine the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-23 M. Ahsan Zeb , K. Sabeeh , M. Tahir

The tunneling current between independently contacted graphene sheets separated by boron nitride insulator is calculated. Both dissipative tunneling transitions, with momentum transfer due to disorder scattering, and non-dissipative regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 F. T. Vasko