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Magneto-exciton limit of quantum Hall breakdown in graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2023-10-26 v2

Abstract

One of the intrinsic drift velocity limit of the quantum Hall effect is the collective magneto-exciton (ME) instability. It has been demonstrated in bilayer graphene (BLG) using noise measurements. We reproduce this experiment in monolayer graphene (MLG), and show that the same mechanism carries a direct relativistic signature on the breakdown velocity. Based on theoretical calculations of MLG- and BLG-ME spectra, we show that Doppler-induced instabilities manifest for a ME phase velocity determined by a universal value of the ME conductivity, set by the Hall conductance.

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@article{arxiv.2302.14791,
  title  = {Magneto-exciton limit of quantum Hall breakdown in graphene},
  author = {A. Schmitt and M. Rosticher and T. Taniguchi and K. Watanabe and G. Fève and J-M. Berroir and G. Ménard and C. Voisin and M. O. Goerbig and B. Plaçais and E. Baudin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14791},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

27 pages, 11 figures including supplementary information (14 pages and 3 figures for the main text alone)