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Transport anomaly at the ordering transition for adatoms on graphene

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2011-06-08 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We analyze a manifestation of the partial ordering transition of adatoms on graphene in resistivity measurements. We find that Kekule mosaic ordering of adatoms increases sheet resistance of graphene, due to a gap opening in its spectrum, and that critical fluctuations of the order parameter lead to a non-monotonic temperature dependence of resistivity, with a cusp-like minimum at T=T_c.

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@article{arxiv.1102.1084,
  title  = {Transport anomaly at the ordering transition for adatoms on graphene},
  author = {Sergey Kopylov and Vadim Cheianov and Boris L. Altshuler and Vladimir I. Fal'ko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1084},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure