• 文献标题:   Massless Dirac fermions trapping in a quasi-one-dimensional npn junction of a continuous graphene monolayer
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BAI KK, QIAO JB, JIANG H, LIU HW, HE L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Soochow Univ
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.95.201406
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Massless Dirac fermions in graphene provide unprecedented opportunities to realize the Klein paradox, which is one of the most exotic and striking properties of relativistic particles. In the seminal theoretical work [M. I. Katsnelson et al., Nat. Phys. 2, 620 (2006)], it was predicted that the massless Dirac fermions can pass through one-dimensional (1D) potential barriers unimpededly at normal incidence. Such a result seems to preclude confinement of the massless Dirac fermions in graphene by using 1D potential barriers. Here, we demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that massless Dirac fermions can be trapped in a quasi-1D npn junction of a continuous graphene monolayer. Because of highly anisotropic transmission of the massless Dirac fermions at n-p junction boundaries (the so-called Klein tunneling in graphene), charge carriers incident at large oblique angles will be reflected from one edge of the junction with high probability and continue to bounce from the opposite edge. Consequently, these electrons are trapped for a finite time to form quasibound states in the quasi-1D npn junction. The quasibound states seen as pronounced resonances are probed and the quantum interference patterns arising from these states are directly visualized in our scanning tunneling microscope measurements.