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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Full analytical solution of finite-length armchair/zigzag nanoribbons

Abstract: Finite-length armchair graphene nanoribbons can behave as one dimensional topological materials, that may show edge states in their zigzag-terminated edges, depending on their width and termination. We show here a full solution of Tight-Binding graphene rectangles of any length and width that can be seen as either finite-length armchair or zigzag ribbons. We find exact analytical expressions for both bulk and edge eigen-states and eigen-energies. We write down exact expressions for the Coulomb interactions among edge states and introduce a Hubbard-dimer model to analyse the emergence and features of different magnetic states at the edges, whose existence depends on the ribbon length. We find ample room for experimental testing of our predictions in N = 5 armchair ribbons. We compare the analytical results with ab initio simulations to benchmark the quality of the dimer model and to set its parameters. A further detailed analysis of the ab initio Hamiltonian allows us to identify those variations of the Tight-Binding parameters that affect the topological properties of the ribbons.
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.115403
Cite as: arXiv:2303.00325 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2303.00325v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

Submission history

From: Amador García-Fuente Dr [view email]
[v1] Wed, 1 Mar 2023 08:40:03 GMT (18172kb,D)

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