Magnetic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in graphene

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Feb 9;98(6):066802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.066802. Epub 2007 Feb 6.

Abstract

Because of Klein tunneling, electrostatic potentials are unable to confine Dirac electrons. We show that it is possible to confine massless Dirac fermions in a monolayer graphene sheet by inhomogeneous magnetic fields. This allows one to design mesoscopic structures in graphene by magnetic barriers, e.g., quantum dots or quantum point contacts.