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Interlayer tunneling spectroscopy of graphite at high magnetic field oriented parallel to the layers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2013-07-26 v2

Abstract

Interlayer tunneling in graphite mesa-type structures is studied at a strong in-plane magnetic field HH up to 55 T and low temperature T=1.4T=1.4 K. The tunneling spectrum dI/dVdI/dV vs. VV has a pronounced peak at a finite voltage V0V_0. The peak position V0V_0 increases linearly with HH. To explain the experiment, we develop a theoretical model of graphite in the crossed electric EE and magnetic HH fields. When the fields satisfy the resonant condition E=vHE=vH, where vv is the velocity of the two-dimensional Dirac electrons in graphene, the wave functions delocalize and give rise to the peak in the tunneling spectrum observed in the experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1212.4900,
  title  = {Interlayer tunneling spectroscopy of graphite at high magnetic field oriented parallel to the layers},
  author = {Yu. I. Latyshev and A. P. Orlov and P. Monceau and D. Vignolles and Sergey S. Pershoguba and Victor M. Yakovenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4900},
  year   = {2013}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures; corresponds to the published version in Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, Proceedings of the IMPACT conference 2012, http://lptms.u-psud.fr/impact2012/