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The valley filter efficiency of monolayer graphene and bilayer graphene line defect model
In addition to electron charge and spin, novel materials host another degree
of freedom, the valley. For a junction composed of valley filter sandwiched by
two normal terminals, we focus on the valley efficiency under disorder with two
valley filter models based on monolayer and bilayer graphene. Applying the
transfer matrix method, valley resolved transmission coefficients are obtained.
We find that: i) under weak disorder, when the line defect length is over about
, it functions as a perfect channel (quantized conductance) and
valley filter (totally polarized); ii) in the diffusive regime, combination
effects of backscattering and bulk states assisted intervalley transmission
enhance the conductance and suppress the valley polarization; iii) for very
long line defect, though the conductance is small, polarization is indifferent
to length. Under perpendicular magnetics field, the characters of charge and
valley transport are only slightly affected. Finally we discuss the efficiency
of transport valley polarized current in a hybrid system.Comment: 6 figure
Controllable Andreev retroreflection and specular Andreev reflection in a four-terminal graphene-superconductor hybrid system
We report the investigation of electron transport through a four-terminal
graphene-superconductor hybrid system. Due to the quantum interference of the
reflected holes from two graphene-superconductor interfaces with phase
difference , it is found that the specular Andreev reflection vanishes
at while the Andreev retroreflection disappears at .
This means that the retroreflection and specular reflection can be easily
controlled and separated in this device. In addition, due to the diffraction
effect in the narrow graphene nanoribbon, the reflected hole can exit from both
graphene terminals. As the width of nanoribbon increases, the diffraction
effect gradually disappears and the reflected hole eventually exits from a
particular graphene terminal depending on the type of Andreev reflection.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Josephson current transport through a Quantum Dot in an Aharonov-Bohm Ring
The Josephson current through an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer, in which
a quantum dot (QD) is situated on one arm and a magnetic flux threads
through the ring, has been investigated. With the existence of the magnetic
flux, the relation of the Josephson current and the superconductor phase is
complex, and the system can be adjusted to junction by either modulating
the magnetic flux or the QD's energy level . Due to the
electron-hole symmetry, the Josephson current has the property
. The Josephson current
exhibits a jump when a pair of Andreev bound states aligns with the Fermi
energy. The condition for the current jump is given. In particularly, we find
that the position of the current jump and the position of the maximum value of
the critical current are identical. Due to the interference between the
two paths, the critical current versus the QD's level
shows a typical Fano shape, which is similar to the Fano effect in the
corresponding normal device. But they also show some differences. For example,
the critical current never reaches zero for any parameters, while the current
in the normal device can reach zero at the destruction point.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Electric-field induced magnetic-anisotropy transformation to achieve spontaneous valley polarization
Valleytronics has been widely investigated for providing new degrees of
freedom to future information coding and processing. Here, it is proposed that
valley polarization can be achieved by electric field induced magnetic
anisotropy (MA) transformation. Through the first-principle calculations, our
idea is illustrated by a concrete example of monolayer. The
increasing electric field can induce a transition of MA from in-plane to
out-of-plane by changing magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) from negative to
positive value, which is mainly due to increasing magnetocrystalline anisotropy
(MCA) energy. The out-of-plane magnetization is in favour of spontaneous valley
polarization in . Within considered electric field range,
is always ferromagnetic (FM) ground state. In a certain
range of electric field, the coexistence of semiconductor and out-of-plane
magnetization makes become a true ferrovalley (FV)
material. The anomalous valley Hall effect (AVHE) can be observed under
in-plane and out-of-plane electrical field in . Our works
pave the way to design the ferrovalley material by electric field.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:2207.1342
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