• 文献标题:   Unimpeded tunneling in graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ROSLYAK O, IUROV A, GUMBS G, HUANG DH
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984
  • 通讯作者地址:   CUNY Hunter Coll
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1088/0953-8984/22/16/165301
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

We studied the Klein paradox in zigzag (ZNR) and anti-zigzag (AZNR) graphene nanoribbons. Due to the fact that ZNR (the number of lattice sites across the nanoribbon = N is even) and AZNR (N is odd) configurations are indistinguishable when treated by the Dirac equation, we supplemented the model with a pseudo-parity operator whose eigenvalues correctly depend on the sublattice wavefunctions for the number of carbon atoms across the ribbon, in agreement with the tight-binding model. We have shown that the Klein tunneling in zigzag nanoribbons is related to conservation of the pseudo-parity rather than pseudo-spin as in infinite graphene. The perfect transmission in the case of head-on incidence is replaced by perfect transmission at the center of the ribbon and the chirality is interpreted as the projection of the pseudo-parity on momentum at different corners of the Brillouin zone.