305 research outputs found
Breakdown of topological protection due to non-magnetic edge disorder in two-dimensional materials in the Quantum Spin Hall phase
We study the suppression of the conductance quantization in quantum spin Hall
systems by a combined effect of electronic interactions and edge disorder, that
is ubiquitous in exfoliated and CVD grown 2D materials. We show that the
interplay between the electronic localized states due to edge defects and
electron-electron interactions gives rise to local magnetic moments, that break
time-reversal symmetry and the topological protection of the edge states in 2D
topological systems. Our results suggest that edge disorder leads to small
deviations of a perfect quantized conductance in short samples and to a strong
conductance suppression in long ones. Our analysis is based on on the Kane-Mele
model, an unrestricted Hubbard mean field Hamiltonian and on a self-consistent
recursive Green's functions technique to calculate the transport quantities.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
The role of the disorder range and electronic energy in the graphene nanoribbons perfect transmission
Numerical calculations based on the recursive Green's functions method in the
tight-binding approximation are performed to calculate the dimensionless
conductance in disordered graphene nanoribbons with Gaussian scatterers.
The influence of the transition from short- to long-ranged disorder on is
studied as well as its effects on the formation of a perfectly conducting
channel. We also investigate the dependence of electronic energy on the
perfectly conducting channel. We propose and calculate a backscattering
estimative in order to establish the connection between the perfectly
conducting channel (with ) and the amount of intervalley scattering.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures. To be published on Phys. Rev.
Germinação de sementes de camu-camu (myrciaria dubia (h.b.k) Mc vaugh), em diferentes substratos e estádios de maturação.
Extraction techniques and clean-up procedures for the determination of pahs in sediments of the Ceará coast
Extraction and clean-up are essential points in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) analysis in a solid matrix. This work compares extraction techniques and clean-up procedures for PAH analysis. PAH levels, their toxicological significance and source were also evaluated in the waters of the Cocó and Ceará rivers. The efficiency of PAH recovery was higher for the soxhlet and ultrasonic techniques. PAH recovery varied from 69.3 to 99.3%. Total PAH concentration (ΣHPA) varied from 720.73 to 2234.76 µg kg-1 (Cocó river) and 96.4 to 1859.21 µg kg-1 (Ceará river). The main PAH sources are pyrolytic processes and the levels were classified as medium so that adverse effects are possible
Effects of disorder range and electronic energy on the perfect transmission in graphene nanoribbons
Numerical calculations based on the recursive Green\u27s function method in the tight-binding approximation are performed to calculate the dimensionless conductance g in disordered graphene nanoribbons with Gaussian scatterers. The influence of the transition from short-to long-ranged disorder on g is studied as well as its effects on the formation of a perfectly conducting channel. We also investigate the dependence of electronic energy on the perfectly conducting channel. We propose and calculate a backscattering estimate in order to establish the connection between the perfectly conducting channel (with g = 1) and the amount of intervalley scattering
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