Propriedades eletrônicas de grafeno com defeitos

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Bueno, Maria Jannaira
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Física; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Grafeno; Defeitos topológicos; Ângulo de mudança de fase; Amplitude de espalhamento; Níveis de Landau; Oscilador de Dirac; Graphene; Topological defects; Landau levels; Phase shift; Scattering amplitude; Dirac oscillator; CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::FISICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5703

In the limit of low energy, graphene can be described by a theory of free massless Fermions. In this work, we write a non-Euclidean metric that represents graphene and introduce a non-Abelian gauge field due to the presence of topological defects (disclinations). Furthermore, in this background, we study the elastic scattering of Fermions by these defects. Afterwards, we obtain the phase shift angle and the scattering amplitude. We also discuss the influence of these results to transport properties. In this approach, we apply a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene sheet. Thus, the system also becomes described by an Abelian gauge field and we observe that occurs the break of the degeneracy of Landau levels with possible physical implications for the study of the quantum Hall effect in graphene. In addition, we study the dynamics of Dirac spinors in the presence of a confining potential, as the Dirac oscillator, and the spatial confinement of electrons in a graphene structure in the shape of a ring with topological defects. Finally, we find that the dynamics of spinors is affected by this geometry and the disclination.