• 文献标题:   Coherent field emission image of graphene predicted with a microscopic theory
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI ZB, XU NS
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Sun Yat Sen Univ
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.85.115427
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

A general approach to the coherent field electron emission of nanoemitters is proposed and applied to graphene. We will show that the coherence of the Dirac quasiparticles of graphene can be transmitted into the vacuum via electric-field-assisted electron emission at temperatures up to 1000 K. A dragonfly emission pattern with a dark body and two pairs of wings is predicted for the armchair edge as evidence of the pseudospin mixing and the odd parity of the p orbitals. Thus the phase information of the quantum states of the nanoemitters is revealed by the emission image. Moreover, this phenomenon leads to a novel coherent electron line source that can produce interference patterns of extended objects with linear sizes comparable to the length of the graphene edge. The angular distribution of the emission and the total emission current will be given analytically.