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We theoretically study graphene nanoribbons in the presence of spatially varying magnetic fields produced e.g. by nanomagnets. We show both analytically and numerically that an exceptionally large Rashba spin orbit interaction (SOI) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The coherent electron transport along zigzag and metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of one or two vacancies is investigated. Having in mind atomic scale tunability of the conductance fingerprints, the primary focus is on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 D. A. Bahamon , A. L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

We study the electron transport through a graphene nanoribbon-superconductor junction. Both zigzag and armchair edge graphene nanoribbons are considered, and the effects of the magnetic field and disorder on the transport property are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We study the conductance through two types of graphene nanostructures: nanoribbon junctions in which the width changes from wide to narrow, and curved nanoribbons. In the wide-narrow structures, substantial reflection occurs from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 J. Wurm , M. Wimmer , I. Adagideli , K. Richter , H. U. Baranger

We study the electronic correlation effects in armchair graphene nanoribbons that have been recently proposed to be the building blocks of spin qubits. The armchair edges give rise to peculiar quantum interferences and lead to quenched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yen-Chen Lee , Hsiu-Hau Lin

Mismatched junctions formed by two C$_3$N zigzag nanoribbons of different widths provide a useful setting for studying quantum interference effects involving edge state transport. A crucial ingredient for this interference to appear is,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Andor Che Papior , Van-Truong Tran , Roberto D'Agosta , Stefan Kurth

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

Graphene nanoribbons are semiconductor nanostructures with great potentials in nanoelectronics. Their realization particularly with small lateral dimensions below a few nanometers, however, remains challenging. Here we theoretically analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Valentina Tozzini , Vittorio Pellegrini

In this study, we investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of graphane nanoribbons. We find that zigzag and armchair graphane nanoribbons with H-passivated edges are nonmagnetic semiconductors. While bare armchair ribbons are also…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-20 Hasan Sahin , Can Ataca , Salim Ciraci

We study the effects of the interaction between electrons and holes on the conductance G of quasi-one-dimensional graphene systems. We first consider as a benchmark the limit in which all interactions are negligible, recovering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Bazzanella , P. Faccioli , E. Lipparini

We analyze the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nanoribbons close to the magic angle. We describe a transition from an incomplete to a complete moir\'e structure. By considering zigzag and armchair edge terminations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Elias Andrade , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

By using analytical solution of a tight-binding model for armchair nanoribbons, it is confirmed that the solution represents the standing wave formed by intervalley scattering and that pseudospin is invariant under the scattering. The phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 K. Sasaki , K. Wakabayashi , T. Enoki

The interplay between topology and magnetism often triggers the exotic quantum phases. Here, we report an accessible scheme to engineer the robust $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topology by intrinsic magnetism, originating from the zigzag segment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Wei-Jian Li , Da-Fei Sun , Sheng Ju , Ai-Lei He , Yuan Zhou

We propose how to create, control, and read-out real-space localized spin qubits in proximitized finite graphene nanoribbon (GNR) systems using purely electrical methods. Our proposed nano-qubits are formed of in-gap singlet-triplet states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

We provide a theoretical study of the conductance response of systems based on graphene nanoribbon to the potential of a scanning probe. The study is based on the Landauer approach for the tight-binding Hamiltonian with an implementation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Alina Mreńca , Krzysztof Kolasiński , Bartłomiej Szafran

Knowledge of the topology of the electronic ground state of materials has led to deep insights to novel phenomena such as the integer quantum Hall effect and fermion-number fractionalization, as well as other properties of matter. Joining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Ting Cao , Fangzhou Zhao , Steven G. Louie

We describe the results of a theoretical study of transport through gated metallic graphene nanoribbons using a non-equilibrium Green function method. Although analogies with quantum field theory predict perfect transmission of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-19 Jesse M. Kinder , Jonathan J. Dorando , Haitao Wang , Garnet K. -L. Chan

With nonequilibrium Green's function approach combined with density functional theory, we perform an ab initio calculation to investigate transport properties of graphene nanoribbon junctions self-consistently. Tight-binding approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Yin , Y. Y. Liang , F. Jiang , H. Chen , P. Wang , R. Note , H. Mizuseki , Y. Kawazoe

The thermoelectric properties of in plane heterostructures made of Graphene and hexagonal Boron Nitride (BN) have been investigated by means of atomistic simulation. The heterostructures consist in armchair graphene nanoribbons to the sides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

We theoretically reveal the unusual features of the Josephson effect in a strained zigzag graphene nanoribbon with a small length relative to the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width. We find a step-wise variation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leyla Majidi , Reza Asgari