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Usually, graphene is used in its horizontal directions to design novel concept devices. Here, we report a single electron tunneling diode based on quantum tunneling through a vertical graphene two-barrier junction. The junction is formed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Rui Xu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Electronic transport through a two-level system driven by external electric field and coupled to (magnetic or non-magnetic) electron reservoirs is considered theoretically. The basic transport characteristics such as current and tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Piotr Trocha

We demonstrate that excited states in single-layer graphene quantum dots can be detected via direct transport experiments. Coulomb diamond measurements show distinct features of sequential tunneling through an excited state. Moreover, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Schnez , F. Molitor , C. Stampfer , J. Guettinger , I. Shorubalko , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We demonstrate with a fully quantum-mechanical approach that graphene can function as gate-controllable transistors for pumped spin currents, i.e., a stream of angular momentum induced by the precession of adjacent magnetizations, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 F. S. M. Guimarães , A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , M. S. Ferreira

We investigate a tunnel contact coupled to a double quantum dot (DQD) and employed as charge monitor for the latter. We consider both the classical limit and the quantum regime. In the classical case, we derive measurement correlations from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Robert Hussein , Jorge Gómez-García , Sigmund Kohler

Graphene has opened new avenues of research in quantum transport, with potential applications for coherent electronics. Coherent transport depends sensitively on scattering from microscopic disorder present in graphene samples: electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M Westervelt

We report a first-principles based study of mesoscopic quantum transport in chemically doped graphene nanoribbons with a width up to 10 nm. The occurrence of quasibound states related to boron impurities results in mobility gaps as large as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Blanca Biel , François Triozon , X. Blase , Stephan Roche

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

Few layer graphene systems such as Bernal stacked bilayer and rhombohedral (ABC-) stacked trilayer offer the unique possibility to open an electric field tunable energy gap. To date, this energy gap has been experimentally confirmed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 T. Khodkov , I Khrapach , M. F. Craciun , S. Russo

Quantum coherence and control is foundational to the science and engineering of quantum systems. In van der Waals (vdW) materials, the collective coherent behavior of carriers has been probed successfully by transport measurements. However,…

Stimulated by recent advances in isolating graphene, we discovered that quantum dot can be trapped in Z-shaped graphene nanoribbon junciton. The topological structure of the junction can confine electronic states completely. By varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. F. Wang , Huaixiu Zheng , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Qunxiang Li , J. G. Hou

The detection of fractionally charged quasiparticles, which arise in the fractional quantum Hall regime, is of fundamental importance for probing their exotic quantum properties. While electronic interferometers have been central to probe…

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Measuring a quantum system can randomly perturb its state. The strength and nature of this back-action depends on the quantity which is measured. In a partial measurement performed by an ideal apparatus, quantum physics predicts that the…

It was proposed that a double quantum dot can be used to be a detector of spin bias. Electron transport through a double quantum dot is investigated theoretically when a pure spin bias is applied on two conducting leads contacted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Qing-feng Sun , Yanxia Xing , Shun-Qing Shen

We have studied the transport properties of a large graphene double quantum dot under the influence of background disorder potential and magnetic field. At low temperatures, the evolution of the charge-stability diagram as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. L. Chiu , M. R. Connolly , A. Cresti , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , C. G. Smith

We present gate-controlled single, double, and triple dot operation in electrostatically gapped bilayer graphene. Thanks to the recent advancements in sample fabrication, which include the encapsulation of bilayer graphene in hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Luca Banszerus , Benedikt Frohn , Alexander Epping , Daniel Neumaier , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer

The differential conductance of graphene is shown to exhibit a zero-bias anomaly at low temperatures, arising from a suppression of the quantum corrections due to weak localization and electron interactions. A simple rescaling of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-18 R. Somphonsane , H. Ramamoorthy , G. He , J. Nathawat , S. Yin , J. P. Bird , C. -P. Kwan , N. Arabchigavkani , B. Barut , M. Zhao , Z. Jin , J. Fransson

A far-reaching goal of graphene research is exploiting the unique properties of carriers to realize extreme nonclassical electronic transport. Of particular interest is harnessing wavelike carriers to guide and direct them on submicron…