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Graphene, a special two-dimensional material, has a unique band structure that allows the type and concentration of carriers to be controlled through a gate voltage, and it has potential applications in bipolar nanoelectronic devices. In this paper, based on the tight-binding model of graphene p-n junctions, by using the nonequilibrium Green’s function method and Landauer-Büttiker formula, the thermal dissipation of electric transport in graphene p-n junctions in a magnetic field is investigated. Under a strong magnetic field, both sides of the junction are in the quantum Hall regime, thus the topologically protected chiral edge states appear. Intuitively, the topologically protected chiral edge states are dissipationless. However, the results show that thermal dissipation can occur in the quantum Hall regime in graphene junctions in the presence of dissipation sources, although the topologically protected chiral edge states still exist. In clean graphene junctions, thermal dissipation occurs mainly at the edge for the unipolar transport, but it occurs both at the edge and at the interface of the junctions for the bipolar transport. In the presence of disorder, thermal dissipation is significantly enhanced both in the unipolar junction and in the bipolar junction, and it increases with disorder strength increasing. Besides, the energy distribution of electrons at different positions is also studied, which shows that the thermal dissipation always occurs as long as the energy distribution is in nonequilibrium. This indicates that the topology can protect only the propagation direction of electrons, but it can not suppress the occurrence of thermal dissipation.
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Keywords:
- graphene p-n junctions /
- thermal dissipation /
- quantum transport /
- topology
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图 1 (a) 锯齿型石墨烯p-n结示意图, 红色格点表示在这些格点上耦合了虚拟导线, 图中
$ D=4, N=12, L=11, M=3 $ ; (b), (c) 不同无序强度W下电导G随着$ {E}_{\mathrm{R}} $ 的变化曲线. 当$ \mathrm{W}\ne 0 $ 时, 无序构型平均取$ 2000 $ 次. 图(b)中$ {E}_{\mathrm{L}}=-0.1 $ ($ {\nu }_{\mathrm{L}}=1 $ ), 图(c)中$ {E}_{\mathrm{L}}=-0.2 $ ($ {\nu }_{\mathrm{L}}=3 $ )Figure 1. (a) Schematic diagram for a zigzag graphene p-n junction. The red sites indicate that virtual leads are coupled to these sites, and
$ D=4, N=12, L=11, M=3 $ in this diagram. (b), (c) The conductance G vs.$ {E}_{\mathrm{R}} $ for different disorder strengths W. Here the conductance is averaged up to 2000 configurations when$ W\ne 0 $ . The parameters$ {E}_{\mathrm{L}}=-0.1 $ ($ {\nu }_{\mathrm{L}}=1 $ ) in panel (b),$ {E}_{\mathrm{L}}=-0.2 $ ($ {\nu }_{\mathrm{L}}=3 $ ) in panel (c).
图 2 局域热产生
$ {Q}_{\mathrm{L}} $ 随着格点位置坐标$ (x, y) $ 的变化, 带箭头的黑色实线代表手性边缘态的数目和传播方向. 符号■, ▲, ◆, ●, ★标记的位置分别是$ (10, 10) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 10}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 100}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 190}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{10, 190}\right) $ , 在图4中将给出这些位置上的电子能量分布.$ \left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right) $ =$ (-0.1, -0.1) $ (a)$ , (-0.2, -0.1) $ (b),$ (-\mathrm{0.1, 0.1}) $ (c),$ (-\mathrm{0.2, 0.2}) $ (d), 分别对应左右填充因子$ ({\nu }_{\mathrm{L}}, {\nu }_{\mathrm{R}})=\left(\mathrm{1, 1}\right) $ (a),$ \left(\mathrm{3, 1}\right) $ (b),$ (1, -1) $ (c),$ (3, -3) $ (d)Figure 2. Local heat generation
$ {Q}_{\mathrm{L}} $ vs. lattice position$ (x, y) $ , the black solid lines with arrows represent the number and propagation direction of the chiral edge states. Positions marked by symbols ■, ▲, ◆, ●, ★ are, respectively,$ \left(\mathrm{10, 10}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 10}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 100}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 190}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{10, 190}\right) $ , and energy distribution of electrons at these positions will be shown in Fig. 4.$ \left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)=(-0.1, -0.1) $ (a),$ (-0.2, -0.1) $ (b),$ (-\mathrm{0.1, 0.1}) $ (c),$ (-\mathrm{0.2, 0.2}) $ (d), which correspond to the left and right filling factors$ ({\nu }_{\mathrm{L}}, {\nu }_{\mathrm{R}})=\left(\mathrm{1, 1}\right) $ (a),$ \left(\mathrm{3, 1}\right) $ (b),$ (1, -1) $ (c), and$ (3, -3) $ (d), respectively.
图 3 局域热产生
$ {Q}_{\mathrm{L}} $ 随着格点位置坐标$ (x, y) $ 的变化, 带箭头的黑色实线代表手性边缘态的数目和传播方向. 符号■, ▲, ◆, ●, ★标记的位置分别是$ \left(\mathrm{10, 10}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 10}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 100}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 190}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{10, 190}\right) $ , 在图4中将给出这些位置上的电子能量分布. (a), (b)$ \left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)=(-0.2, -0.1) $ ;$ \left(\mathrm{c}\right), \left(\mathrm{d}\right) $ $ \left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)= (-\mathrm{0.1, 0.1}) $ . (a), (c) 无序强度$ W=1 $ ; (b), (d) 无序强度$ W= $ 2. 无序构型平均取$ 400 $ 次Figure 3. Local heat generation
$ {Q}_{\mathrm{L}} $ vs. lattice position$ (x, y) $ , the black solid lines with arrows represent the number and propagation direction of the chiral edge states. Positions marked by symbols ■, ▲, ◆, ●, ★ are$ \left(\mathrm{10, 10}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 10}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 100}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{46, 190}\right) $ ,$ \left(\mathrm{10, 190}\right) $ , respectively, and energy distribution of electrons at these positions will be shown in Fig. 4. (a), (b)$\left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)= $ $ (-0.2, -0.1)$ ; (c), (d)$ \left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)=(-\mathrm{0.1, 0.1}) $ . (a), (c) Disorder strength$ W=1 $ ; (b) (d)$ W= $ 2. Here the local heat generation is averaged up to 400 configurations.
图 4 不同位置处的分布函数F随着能量E的变化, 符号■, ▲, ◆, ●, ★对应图2和图3中标记的位置. (a), (b)
$\left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)= $ $ (-0.2, -0.1)$ ; (c), (d)$ (-\mathrm{0.1, 0.1}) $ . (a), (c) 无序强度$ W=0 $ ; (b), (d)$ W=1 $ . 当$ \mathrm{W}\ne 0 $ 时, 无序构型平均取$ 400 $ 次Figure 4. Distribution function F vs. energy E for different positions, the symbols ■, ▲, ◆, ●, ★ correspond to positions marked in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. (a), (b)
$ \left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)=(-0.2, -0.1) $ ; (c), (d)$ \left({E}_{\mathrm{L}}, {E}_{\mathrm{R}}\right)=(-\mathrm{0.1, 0.1}) $ . (a), (c) Disorder strength$ W=0 $ ; (b), (d)$ W= $ 1. Here distribution function F is averaged up to 400 configurations when$ W\ne 0 $ . -
[1] von Klitzing K, Dorda G, Pepper M 1980 Phys. Rev. Lett. 45 494
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[2] Tsui D C, Stormer H L, Gossard A C 1982 Phys. Rev. Lett. 48 1559
Google Scholar
[3] Qi X L, Zhang S C 2011 Rev. Mod. Phys. 83 1057
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Google Scholar
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