• 文献标题:   Quantum blockade and loop currents in graphene with topological defects
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG YY, HU JP, BERNEVIG BA, WANG XR, XIE XC, LIU WM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   52
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.78.155413
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the effect of topological defects on the transport properties of a narrow ballistic ribbon of graphene with zigzag edges. Our results show that the longitudinal conductance vanishes at several discrete Fermi energies where the system develops loop orbital electric currents with certain chirality. The chirality depends on the direction of the applied bias voltage and the sign of the local curvature created by the topological defects. This quantum localization phenomenon provides a way to generate a magnetic moment by an external electric field, which can prove useful in nanotronics.