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Publications in Scientific Journals:

F. Libisch, C Stampfer, J. Burgdörfer:
"Graphene quantum dots: beyond a Dirac billiard";
Physical Review B, 79 (2009), 115423 - 115429.



English abstract:
We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in phase-coherent graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10-40nm. We determine wave functions and energy-level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge roughness, charge impurities, or short-ranged scatterers. Marked deviatons from a simple Dirac billiard for massless fermions are found. We find a remarkably stable dependence of the nearest-neighbor level spacing on edge roughness suggesting that the roughness of fabricated devices can be possibly characterized by the distribution of measured Coulomb blockade peaks.

Keywords:
graphene, quantum dots, Dirac billiards


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.115423


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