Angular confinement and direction‐dependent transmission in graphene nanostructures with magnetic barriers

We evaluate the transmission through magnetic barriers in graphene‐based nanostructures. Several particular cases are considered: a magnetic step, single and double barriers, δ ‐function barriers as well as barrier structures with inhomogeneous magnetic field profiles but with average magnetic field equal to zero. The transmission exhibits a strong dependence on the direction of the incident wave vector. In general the resonant structure of the transmission is significantly more pronounced for (Dirac) electrons with linear spectrum compared to that for electrons with a parabolic one.