Conductance through disordered graphene nanoribbons: Standard and anomalous electron localization
arXiv:1310.7470 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.205414
Abstract
Conductance fluctuations produced by the presence of disorder in zigzag and armchair graphene nanoribbons are studied. We show that quantum transport in zigzag nanoribbons takes place via edge states which are exponentially localized, as in the standard Anderson localization problem, whereas for armchair nanoribbons the symmetry of the graphene sublattices produces anomalous localization, or delocalization. We show that these two different electron localizations lead to significant differences of the conductance statistics between zigzag and armchair nanoribbons. In particular, armchair nanoribbons show nonconventional large conductance fluctuations relative to those of Anderson-localized electrons. We calculate analytically the complete distribution of conductances for both types of ribbons. Without free fitting parameters, we verify our theoretical results by performing numerical simulations of disordered zigzag and armchair nanoribbons of experimentally achievable lengths and widths.
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