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Conditions for Conductance Quantization in Mesoscopic Dirac Systems on the Examples of Graphene Nanoconstrictions

Ballistic transport through an impurity-free section of the Corbino disk in graphene is investigated by means of the Landauer-Büttiker formalism in the mesoscopic limit. In the linear-responce regime the conductance is quantized in steps close to integer multiples of $4e^{2}/h$, yet Fabry-Perot oscillations are strongly suppressed. The quantization arises for small opening angles $θ\lesssimπ/3$ and large radii ratios $R_2/R_1\gtrsim{}10$. We find that the condition for emergence of the $n$-th conductance step can be written as $\sqrt{n}θ/π\ll{}1$. A brief comparison with the conductance spectra of graphene nanoribbons with parallel edges is also provided.