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Due to Klein tunneling in graphene only quasi-bound states are realized in graphene quantum dots by electrostatic gating. Particles in the quasi-bound states are trapped inside the dot for a finite time and they keep bouncing back and forth…
It is known that the appearance of Klein tunneling in graphene makes it hard to keep or localize electrons in a graphene-based quantum dot (GQD). However, a magnetic field can be used to temporarily confine an electron that is traveling…
We study electron scattering in graphene quantum dots (GQDs) under the combined influence of a magnetic field, an energy gap, and circularly polarized laser irradiation. Using the Floquet approach and the Dirac equation, we derive the…
A spatially modulated Dirac gap in a graphene sheet leads to charge confinement, thus enabling a graphene quantum dot to be formed without the application of external electric and magnetic fields [Appl. Phys. Lett. \textbf{97}, 243106…
We study the energy levels of carriers confined in a magnetic quantum dot of graphene surrounded by a infinite graphene sheet in the presence of energy gap. The eigenspinors are derived for the valleys $K$ and $K'$, while the associated…
We consider magnetic graphene quantum dots (MGQDs) and study the impact of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux and gap on the scattering process of electrons. Our emphasis is on the finite lifetimes of quasi-bound states arising from the…
We study the effects of a magnetic flux and an inhomogeneous gap on the energy spectrum of graphene magnetic quantum dots (GMQDs). By considering the Dirac equation in the infinite mass framework, we can analytically obtain eigenspinor…
An electrostatic quantum dot cannot be formed in monolayer graphene, because of the Klein tunnelling. However, a dot can be formed with the help of a uniform magnetic field. As shown here, a spatial modulation of the Dirac gap leads to…
The electrostatic confinement of massless charge carriers is hampered by Klein tunneling. Circumventing this problem in graphene mainly relies on carving out nanostructures or applying electric displacement fields to open a band gap in…
We theoretically analyse the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in circular quantum dot arrays, impressed on contacted graphene nanoribbons by top gates. Utilising exact numerical techniques, we compute the scattering…
We study the scattering of Dirac electrons of circular graphene quantum dot with mass-inverted subject to electrostatic potential. The obtained solutions of the energy spectrum are used to determine the scattering coefficients at the…
We study the electron propagation in a circular electrostatically defined quantum dot in graphene. Solving the scattering problem for a plane Dirac electron wave we identify different scattering regimes depending on the radius and potential…
We theoretically analyze the possibility to confine electrons in single-layer graphene with the help of metallic gates, via the evaluation of the density of states of such a gate-defined quantum dot in the presence of a ring-shaped metallic…
The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…
We investigate the electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in a gapped graphene quantum dot in the presence of a magnetic flux. The circular quantum dot is defined by an electrostatic gate potential delimited in an infinite graphene…
Due to Klein tunneling, electrostatic confinement of electrons in graphene is not possible. This hinders the use of graphene for quantum dot applications. Only through quasi-bound states with finite lifetime has one achieved to confine…
Dirac fermions interacting with a cylindrically symmetric quantum dot potential created in single and bilayer graphene are not confined but form quasi-bound states. The broadening of these quasi-bound states (i. e. the inverse of their…
Theoretical analysis of the experimental data for the energy levels of two interacting electrons confined by a finite Gaussian potential in a 2D quantum dot and subjected to a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of the dot is…
Massless Dirac particles cannot be confined by an electrostatic potential. This is a problem for making graphene quantum dots but confinement can be achieved with a magnetic field and here, general conditions for confined and deconfined…
We show how Dirac electrons interact with a graphene quantum dots (GQDs) when exposed to both a magnetic flux and circularly polarized light. After obtaining the solutions of the energy spectrum, we compute the scattering coefficients.…