{ "id": "1705.01035", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-05-02T15:45:54.000Z", "updated": "2017-05-02T15:45:54.000Z", "title": "On the density of states of circular graphene quantum dots", "authors": [ "H. Chau Nguyen", "Nhung T. T. Nguyen", "V. Lien Nguyen" ], "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures; comments are welcome!", "categories": [ "cond-mat.mes-hall" ], "abstract": "We suggest a simple approach to calculate the local density of states that effectively applies to any structure created by an axially symmetric potential on a continuous graphene sheet such as circular graphene quantum dots or rings. Calculations performed for the graphene quantum dot studied in a recent scanning tunneling microscopy measurement [{\\sl Gutierrez et al. Nat. Phys. \\textbf{12}, 1069--1075 (2016)}] show an excellent experimental-theoretical agreement.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-05-02T15:45:54.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "circular graphene quantum dots", "simple approach", "continuous graphene sheet", "local density", "axially symmetric potential" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }