Publication: Electric-Field Control of Magnetism in Graphene Quantum Dots: Ab Initio Calculations
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2010
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American Physical Society
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Agapito, Luis A., Nicholas Kioussis, and Efthimios Kaxiras. 2010. "Electric-Field Control of Magnetism in Graphene Quantum Dots: Ab Initio Calculations." Physical Review B 82 (20): 201411.
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Employing ab initio calculations we predict that the magnetic states of hydrogenated diamond-shaped zigzag graphene quantum dots (GQDs), each exhibiting unique electronic structure, can be selectively tuned with gate voltage, through Stark or hybridization electric-field modulation of the spatial distribution and energy of the spin-polarized molecular orbitals, leading to transitions between these states. Electrical read-out of the GQD magnetic state can be accomplished by exploiting the distinctive electrical properties of the various magnetic configurations.
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