A Green's function approach to transmission of massless Dirac fermions in graphene through an array of random scatterers
arXiv:1206.0249 · doi:10.1140/epjb/e2013-40278-9
Abstract
We consider the transmission of massless Dirac fermions through an array of short range scatterers which are modeled as randomly positioned - function like potentials along the x-axis. We particularly discuss the interplay between disorder-induced localization that is the hallmark of a non-relativistic system and two important properties of such massless Dirac fermions, namely, complete transmission at normal incidence and periodic dependence of transmission coefficient on the strength of the barrier that leads to a periodic resonant transmission. This leads to two different types of conductance behavior as a function of the system size at the resonant and the off-resonance strengths of the delta function potential. We explain this behavior of the conductance in terms of the transmission through a pair of such barriers using a Green's function based approach. The method helps to understand such disordered transport in terms of well known optical phenomena such as Fabry Perot resonances.
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