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Magnetic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in graphene

A. De Martino, L. Dell'Anna, R. Egger

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0610290

Abstract

Due to Klein tunneling, electrostatic potentials are unable to confine Dirac electrons. We show that it is possible to confine massless Dirac fermions in a monolayer graphene sheet by inhomogeneous magnetic fields. This allows one to design mesoscopic structures in graphene by magnetic barriers, e.g. quantum dots or quantum point contacts.

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