Critical Temperature in Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbon: a First-principles Study

Abstract

Abstract The critical (Néel) temperature in the zigzag graphene nanoribbon was calculated using the mean-eld approximation within the generalized Bloch theorem. This calculation was carried out over the Brillouin zone of the magnon spectrum. We found a nearly at magnon dispersion at the high energy in one-third of the Brillouin zone. Our calculation showed the critical temperature below room temperature, in good agreement with the prediction in the previous works. Our last work (Prayitno 2021 Physica E 129 114641) revealed that the critical temperature may be enhanced by increasing the ribbon width. In this brief report, we justified that the critical temperature becomes almost constant up to a certain ribbon width. This result indicates that the critical temperature in the graphene nanoribbon will never reach room temperature for any ribbon widths, thus it is likely difficult to apply pristine graphene nanoribbon in any practical devices working near room temperature.