Transport through graphene nanoribbons: suppression of transverse quantization by symmetry breaking

Details Transport through graphene nanoribbons: suppression of transverse quantization by symmetry breaking Transport through graphene nanoribbons: suppression of transverse quantization by symmetry breaking

2011-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/1102.3848v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 figures

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We investigate transport through nanoribbons in the presence of disorder scattering. We show that size quantization patterns are only present when SU(2) pseudospin symmetry is preserved. Symmetry breaking disorder renders transverse quantization invisible, which may provide an explanation for the necessity of suspending graphene nanoconstrictions to obtain size quantization signatures in very recent experiments. Employing a quasi-classical Monte-Carlo simulation, we are able to reproduce and explain key qualitative features of the full quantum-mechanical calculations.

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