Electronic properties of bilayer graphene with magnetic quantum structures studied using the Dirac equation

Abstract

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene with a magnetic quantum dot and a magnetic quantum ring are investigated. The eigenenergies and wavefunctions of quasiparticle states are calculated analytically by solving decoupled fourth-order differential equations. For the magnetic quantum dot, in the case of a negative inner magnetic field, two peculiar characteristics of the eigenenergy evolution are found: (i) the energy eigenstates change in a stepwise manner owing to energy anticrossing and (ii) the quantum states approach zero energy. For the magnetic quantum ring, there is an angular momentum transition of eigenenergy as the inner radius of the ring varies, and the Aharonov--Bohm effect is observed in the eigenenergy spectra for both positive and negative magnetic fields inside the inner radius.