The cloaking effect of electronic states was only reported in bilayer graphene. Here in this work we show that this effect can also be induced in armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs), by potential barriers that modulate the chirality property of the system (correlation between pseudospins). These barriers manipulate the chirality and generates pseudospin polarizations on the sides of the barrier, which leaves spatial regions in evidence, in which states behave differently. In AGNRs the extended states (ES), associated with the tunneling of Klein, use only some sites in the nanoribbon lattice (sublattice of ES). On the other hand, the barrier applied in the nanoribbon, induces states totally localized within the region of the barrier, these states use only the sites not used by the sublattice of ES. The localized states remain invisible for electronic transport for all the energies and characteristics of the barrier in the region of the first effective transport band, the same as the states are changing. This electronic cloaking effect can be suppressed by the application of a magnetic field, detecting in the conductance the previously invisible states in the form of Fano resonances. We discuss here the possibility of using this cloaking effect to generate mechanisms that can hide information or to activate hidden system effects.
Keywords: chirality; electronic cloaking effect; graphene; graphene nanoribbons; pseudospin; quantum transport properties.
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