Conductance quantization in mesoscopic graphene
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.
Cite
@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