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We investigate chiral graphene nanoribbons using projective quantum Monte Carlo simulations within the local Hubbard model description and study the effects of electron-electron interactions on the electronic and magnetic properties at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Michael Golor , Thomas C. Lang , Stefan Wessel

Graphene nanoribbons are the counterpart of carbon nanotubes in graphene-based nanoelectronics. We investigate the electronic properties of chemically modified ribbons by means of density functional theory. We observe that chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Cervantes-Sodi , G. Csányi , S. Piscanec , A. C. Ferrari

To date, almost all of the discussions on topological insulators (TIs) have focused on two- and three-dimensional systems. One-dimensional (1D) TIs manifested in real materials, in which localized spin states may exist at the end or near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Kuan-Sen Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

Electron transport in small graphene nanoribbons is studied by microwave emulation experiments and tight-binding calculations. In particular, it is investigated under which conditions a transport gap can be observed. Our experiments provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Thomas Stegmann , John A. Franco-Villafañe , Ulrich Kuhl , Fabrice Mortessagne , Thomas H. Seligman

We present self-consistent calculations of electron transport in graphene nanoconstrictions within the Hartree approximation. We consider suspended armchair ribbons with V-shaped constrictions having perfect armchair or zigzag edges as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 S. Ihnatsenka , G. Kirczenow

Magnetic carbon nanostructures are currently under scrutiny for a wide spectrum of applications. Here, we theoretically investigate armchair graphene nanoribbons patterned with asymmetric edge extensions consisting of laterally fused…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

We propose a natural way to create quantum-confined regions in graphene in a system that allows large-scale device integration. We show, using first-principles calculations, that a single graphene layer on a trenched region of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-11 Matheus P. Lima , A. R. Rocha , Antônio J. R. da Silva , A. Fazzio

We investigate the Josephson effect in the graphene nanoribbons of length $L$ smaller than the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width $W$. We find that in contrast to an ordinary superconducting quantum point contact (SQPC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-24 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

We present a calculation of the effective geometry-induced quantum potential for the carriers in graphene shaped as a helicoidal nanoribbon. In this geometry the twist of the nanoribbon plays the role of an effective transverse electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Victor Atanasov , Avadh Saxena

We report a theoretical low-field magnetotransport study unveiling the effect of pseudospin in realistic models of weakly disordered graphene-based materials. Using an efficient Kubo computational method, and simulating the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Frank Ortmann , Alessandro Cresti , Gilles Montambaux , Stephan Roche

On-surface synthesis has recently emerged as an effective route towards the atomically precise fabrication of graphene nanoribbons of controlled topologies and widths. However, whether and to which degree structural disorder occurs in the…

We investigate transport properties of the junctions in which the graphene nanoribbon with the zigzag shaped edges consisting of the $N$ legs is sandwiched by the two normal metals by means of recursive Green's function method. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yoneko Mochizuki , Hideo Yoshioka

We present a minimal but crucial microscopic theory for epitaxial graphene and graphene nanoribbons on the 4H-SiC(0001) surface -- protopypical materials to explore physical properties of graphene in large scale. Coarse-grained model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 Seungchul Kim , Jisoon Ihm , Hyoung Joon Choi , Young-Woo Son

In this work we have investigated the mechanical properties and fracture patterns of some graphene nanowiggles (GNWs). Graphene nanoribbons are finite graphene segments with a large aspect ratio, while GNWs are nonaligned periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 R. A. Bizao , T. Botari , D. S. Galvao

We present the analytical solution of the wavefunction and energy dispersion of armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) based on the tight-binding approximation. By imposing hard-wall boundary condition, we find that the wavevector in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Huaixiu Zheng , Zhengfei Wang , Tao Luo , Qinwei Shi , Jie Chen

A heterojunction tunneling field effect transistor based on armchair graphene nanoribbons is proposed and studied using ballistic quantum transport simulation based on 3D real space nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. By using low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Fei Liu , Xiaoyan Liu , Jinfeng Kang , Yi Wang

We used a complete tight-binding band structure of graphene nanoribbon to obtain, for the first time, analytical techniques for observing photon assisted transport, and dynamic localization of electrons in the graphene nanoribbons. When the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-17 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

We propose a class of graphene nanoribbons showing strong intrinsic ferromagnetic behavior due to their asymmetry. Such ribbons are based on a zig-zag edged backbone surmounted by a periodic, triangular notched region of variable size. The…

We examine the magnetic correlations in quantum spin models that were derived recently as effective low-energy theories for electronic correlation effects on the edge states of graphene nanoribbons. For this purpose, we employ quantum Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Cornelie Koop , Stefan Wessel

We investigate localization effects in zigzag graphene nanoribbons with quasiperiodic Fibonacci-type edge extensions, accounting for electron-electron interactions. We employ a tight-binding model that includes first- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego B. Fonseca , Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira