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Graphene $n$-$p$ junctions in the Quantum Hall regime: numerical study of incoherent scattering effects

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-07-30 v2

Abstract

We investigate electronic transport through a graphene nn-pp junction in the quantum Hall effect regime at high perpendicular magnetic field, when the filling factors in the nn-doped and pp-doped regions are fixed to 2 and -2 respectively. We compute numerically the conductance GG, the noise QQ and the Fano factor FF of the junction when inelastic effects are included along the interface in a phenomenological way, by means of fictitious voltage probes. Using a scaling approach, we extract the system coherence length LϕL_\phi and describe the full crossover between the coherent limit (WLϕW\ll L_\phi) and the incoherent limit (WLϕW\gg L_\phi), WW being the interface length. While GG saturates at the value e2/he^2/h in the incoherent regime, QQ and FF are found to vanish exponentially for large length WW. Corrections due to disorder are also investigated. Our results are finally compared to available experimental data.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1801.02235,
  title  = {Graphene $n$-$p$ junctions in the Quantum Hall regime: numerical study of incoherent scattering effects},
  author = {Qianfan Ma and François D. Parmentier and Preden Roulleau and Geneviève Fleury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02235},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures. Main modifications with respect to v1: extended discussion at the end of Sections V and VI, 2 news figures (Fig. 6 and inset of Fig. 9(c))