• 文献标题:   Magnetism in strained graphene dots
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VIANAGOMES J, PEREIRA VM, PERES NMR
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, hubbard model, magnetisation, quantum dot, solidstate phase transformation
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Minho
  • 被引频次:   31
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245436
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We study the magnetization of square and hexagonal graphene dots. It is shown that two classes of hexagonal dots have a second-order phase transition at a critical Hubbard energy U, whose value is similar to the one in bulk graphene, albeit the dots do not have a density of states proportional to the absolute value of the energy, relatively to the Dirac point. Furthermore, we show that a particular class of hexagonal dots, having zigzag edges, does not exhibit zero-energy edge states. We also study the effect of uniaxial strain on the evolution of the magnetization of square dots and find that the overall effect is an enhancement of magnetization with strain. The enhancement can be as large as 100% for strain on the order of 20%. Additionally, stress induces a spatial displacement of the magnetization over the dot, moving it from the zigzag to the armchair edges.