• 文献标题:   Graphene armchair nanoribbon single-electron transistors: The peculiar influence of end states
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KOLLER S, MAYRHOFER L, GRIFONI M
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  • 出版物名称:   EPL
  • ISSN:   0295-5075
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Regensburg
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1209/0295-5075/88/57001
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We present a microscopic theory for interacting graphene armchair nanoribbon quantum dots. Long-range interaction processes are responsible for Coulomb blockade and spin-charge separation. Short-range ones, arising from the underlying honeycomb lattice of graphene smear the spin-charge separation and induce exchange correlations between bulk electrons-delocalized on the ribbon-and single electrons localized at the two ends. As a consequence, entangled end-bulk states where the bulk spin is no longer a conserved quantity occur. Entanglement's signature is the occurrence of negative differential conductance effects in a fully symmetric set-up due to symmetry-forbidden transitions. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2009