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arxiv: 0901.3407 · v1 · pith:Y456NGQAnew · submitted 2009-01-22 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Perfect Reflection of Chiral Fermions in Gated Graphene Nanoribbons

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We describe the results of a theoretical study of transport through gated metallic graphene nanoribbons using a non-equilibrium Green function method. Although analogies with quantum field theory predict perfect transmission of chiral fermions through gated regions in one dimension, we find \emph{perfect reflection} of chiral fermions in armchair ribbons for specific configurations of the gate. This effect should be measurable in narrow graphene constrictions gated by a charged carbon nanotube.

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