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Quasiparticle Transformation During a Metal-Insulator Transition in Graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-04-16 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Here we show, with simultaneous transport and photoemission measurements, that the graphene terminated SiC(0001) surface undergoes a metal-insulator transition (MIT) upon dosingwith small amounts of atomic hydrogen. We find the room temperature resistance increases by about 4 orders of magnitude, a transition accompanied by anomalies in the momentum-resolved spectral function including a non-Fermi Liquid behaviour and a breakdown of the quasiparticle picture. These effects are discussed in terms of a possible transition to a strongly (Anderson) localized ground state.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2249,
  title  = {Quasiparticle Transformation During a Metal-Insulator Transition in Graphene},
  author = {Aaron Bostwick and Jessica L. McChesney and Konstantin Emtsev and Thomas Seyller and Karsten Horn and Stephan D. Kevan and Eli Rotenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2249},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures

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