From Klein to anti-Klein tunneling in graphene tuning the Rashba spin–orbit interaction or the bilayer coupling

Abstract

We calculate the transmission coefficient for a particle crossing a potential barrier in monolayer graphene with Rashba spin–orbit coupling and in bilayer graphene. We show that in both cases one can go from Klein tunneling regime, characterized by perfect normal transmission, to anti-Klein tunneling regime, with perfect normal reflection, by tuning the Rashba spin–orbit coupling for a monolayer or the interplane coupling for a bilayer graphene. We show that the intermediate regime is characterized by a non-monotonic behavior with oscillations and resonances in the normal transmission amplitude as a function of the coupling and of the potential parameters.