• 文献标题:   Graphene quantum dots: Beyond a Dirac billiard
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIBISCH F, STAMPFER C, BURGDORFER J
  • 作者关键词:   coulomb blockade, fermion system, graphene, nanostructured material, quantum dot
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Vienna Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   92
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.79.115423
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in phase-coherent graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10-40 nm. We determine wave functions and energy-level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge roughness, charge impurities, or short-ranged scatterers. Marked deviations from a simple Dirac billiard for massless fermions are found. We find a remarkably stable dependence of the nearest-neighbor level spacing on edge roughness suggesting that the roughness of fabricated devices can be possibly characterized by the distribution of measured Coulomb blockade peaks.