• 文献标题:   Density of states as a probe of electrostatic confinement in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SCHNEIDER M, BROUWER PW
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Free Univ Berlin
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.89.205437
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

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 contact. The possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in a gate-defined "quantum dot" with finite-carrier density, surrounded by an undoped graphene sheet, strongly depends on the integrability of the electron dynamics in the quantum dot. With the present calculations, we can quantitatively compare confinement in dots with integrable and chaotic dynamics, and verify the prediction that the Berry phase associated with the pseudospin leads to partial confinement in situations where no confinement is expected according to the arguments relying on the classical dynamics only.