• 文献标题:   Stability of Anomalous States of a Local Potential in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KIM SC, JEONG YH, YANG SRE
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, dirac electron, magnetic field, a localized potential, anomalous state
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   1533-4880 EI 1533-4899
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1166/jnn.2015.11251
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Graphene Landau levels have discrete energies consisting zero energy chiral states and non-zero energy states with mixed chirality. Each Landau level splits into discrete energies when a localized potential is present. A simple scaling analysis suggests that a localized potential can act as a strong perturbation, and that it can be even more singular in graphene than in ordinary two-dimensional systems of massful electrons. Parabolic, Coulomb, and Gaussian potentials in graphene may have anomalous boundstates whose probability density has a sharp peak inside the potential and a broad peak of size magnetic length l outside the potential. The n = 0 Landau level with zero energy has only one anomalous state while the n = +/-1 Landau levels with non-zero energy have two (integer quantum number n is related to the quantized Landau level energies). These anomalous states can provide a new magnetospectroscopic feature in impurity cyclotron resonances of graphene. In the present work we investigate quantitatively the conditions under which the anomalous states can exist. These results may provide a guide in searching for anomalous states experimentally.