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Signatures of evanescent mode transport in graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2012-07-13 v2

Abstract

We calculate the shot noise generated by evanescent modes in graphene for several experimental setups. For two impurity-free graphene strips kept at the Dirac point by gate potentials, separated by a long highly doped region, we find that the Fano factor takes the universal value F = 1/4. For a large superlattice consisting of many strips gated to the Dirac point interspersed among doped regions, we find F = 1/(8 ln 2). These results differ from the value F = 1/3 predicted for a disordered metal, providing an unambiguous experimental signature of evanescent mode transport in graphene.

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@article{arxiv.1108.4442,
  title  = {Signatures of evanescent mode transport in graphene},
  author = {A. D. Wiener and M. Kindermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.4442},
  year   = {2012}
}

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