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Universal conductance fluctuations in Dirac materials in the presence of long-range disorder

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2012-09-04 v2

Abstract

We study quantum transport in Dirac materials with a single fermionic Dirac cone (strong topological insulators and graphene in the absence of intervalley coupling) in the presence of non-Gaussian long-range disorder. We show, by directly calculating numerically the conductance fluctuations, that in the limit of very large system size and disorder strength, quantum transport becomes universal. However, a systematic deviation away from universality is obtained for realistic system parameters. By comparing our results to existing experimental data on 1/f noise, we suggest that many of the graphene samples studied to date are in a non-universal crossover regime of conductance fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1110.5652,
  title  = {Universal conductance fluctuations in Dirac materials in the presence of long-range disorder},
  author = {E. Rossi and J. H. Bardarson and M. S. Fuhrer and S. Das Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.5652},
  year   = {2012}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures. Published version