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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 26: Transport: Graphene
(Joint session of DS, DY, HL, MA, O and TT organized by TT)
MA 26.4: Talk
Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 10:30–10:45, H22
Electric and magnetic control of electron guiding in graphene — •Ming-Hao Liu and Klaus Richter — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg
Electrons in graphene are known to behave like massless Dirac fermions, whose transport properties can be best revealed by experiments using ultra-clean graphene. Reliable quantum transport simulations for ballistic graphene is naturally a powerful tool for understanding and predicting high-quality transport experiments. In this talk we show gate-controlled electron guiding along electrically confined channels in suspended graphene, which is a combined work of our transport simulations and the experiment done by the Schönenberger group [1]. We have recently further applied our simulation (Green’s function method within the scalable tight-binding model [2]) to revisit the transverse magnetic focusing experiment [3], where the guiding of the electrons is controlled by an external magnetic field, instead of electrical gates. Besides good agreement with the experiments [1,3], our simulations further allow for probing charge flow through an additional scanning probe tip.
[1] P. Rickhaus et al., Nano Lett. 15, 5819 (2015).
[2] M.-H. Liu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 036601 (2015).
[3] T. Taychatanapat et al., Nat. Phys. 9, 225 (2013).