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Conductance quantization in mesoscopic graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Using a generalized Landauer approach we study the non-linear transport in mesoscopic graphene with zig-zag and armchair edges. We find that for clean systems, the low-bias low-temperature conductance, G, of an armchair edge system in quantized as G/t=4 n e^2/h, whereas for a zig-zag edge the quantization changes to G/t t=4(n+1/2)e^2/h, where t is the transmission probability and n is an integer. We also study the effects of a non-zero bias, temperature, and magnetic field on the conductance. The magnetic field dependence of the quantization plateaus in these systems is somewhat different from the one found in the two-dimensional electron gas due to a different Landau level quantization.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0512476,
  title  = {Conductance quantization in mesoscopic graphene},
  author = {N. M. R. Peres and A. H. Castro Neto and F. Guinea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0512476},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 9 figures. Final version published in Physical Review B