Volume 534, Issue 11 2200237
Research Article

Aharonov–Bohm-Like Flux Effects on the Landauer Conductance in Graphene Wormholes

Jonathan Acuña Huamaní

Jonathan Acuña Huamaní

Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, 14-0149 Perú

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Andrés G. Jirón Vicente

Andrés G. Jirón Vicente

Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional del Callao, Callao, 07001 Perú

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Angel E. Obispo

Corresponding Author

Angel E. Obispo

Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica y de Potencia, Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Lima, 15306 Perú

Departamento de Ciencias, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, 15434 Perú

E-mail: [email protected]

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Raul Carita Montero

Raul Carita Montero

Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, 14-0149 Perú

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Luis B. Castro

Luis B. Castro

Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, 65080-805 Brazil

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First published: 23 September 2022

Abstract

In this work, the graphene wormhole in two cases, i) free case and ii) in the presence of an Aharonov–Bohm (AB)-like magnetic field are studied. To achieve the objective, the massless Dirac equation is solved in the background of a catenoid metric. As this system does not support exact solutions due to the considered background, the scattering-state solutions are obtained by means of the Born approximation. In both cases, the Landauer formalism is used to obtain approximate expressions for the conductance. For the free case, a minimum conductance, which is independent of system parameters is found. For the case with an AB-like magnetic field, the results show that the conductance can be modulated by means of the parameter related to magnetic flux. In addition, a special case where a null magnetic flux generates an oscillatory conductance is analyzed.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Data Availability Statement

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

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