• 文献标题:   Coulomb blockade in graphene nanodisks
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   EZAWA M
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Tokyo
  • 被引频次:   57
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155411
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanodisk is a graphene derivative with a closed edge. The trigonal zigzag nanodisk with size N contains a zero-energy sector with the SU(N) symmetry. We investigate electron-electron interaction effects within the zero-energy sector. We explicitly derive the direct and exchange interactions, which explicitly break the SU(N) symmetry. Then, by regarding a nanodisk as a quantum dot with an internal degree of freedom, we analyze the nanodisk-lead system consisting of a nanodisk and two leads. By employing the standard Green's function method, we reveal Coulomb blockade effects in this system. As the chemical potential increases, a peculiar series of plateaux and dips develops in the occupation number and a peculiar series of Coulomb blockade peaks develops in the conductance, which reflect the energy spectrum of a nanodisk with a broken SU(N) symmetry. It is argued that dips emerge in the occupation number due to a Coulomb correlation effect and that tiny Coulomb blockade peaks emerge due to a tunneling effect between the nanodisk and leads.