Interlayer tunneling in graphite mesa-type structures is studied at a strong in-plane magnetic field H up to 55 T and low temperature T=1.4 K. The tunneling spectrum dI/dV vs. V has a pronounced peak at a finite voltage V0. The peak position V0 increases linearly with H. To explain the experiment, we develop a theoretical model of graphite in the crossed electric E and magnetic H fields. When the fields satisfy the resonant condition E=vH, where v 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.
@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}
}
Comments
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/