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It is known that fluctuations in the electrostatic potential allow for metallic conduction (nonzero conductivity in the limit of an infinite system) if the carriers form a single species of massless two-dimensional Dirac fermions. A nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 J. H. Bardarson , M. V. Medvedyeva , J. Tworzydlo , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Multi-layer epitaxial graphene (MEG) is investigated using far infrared (FIR) transmission experiments in the different limits of low magnetic fields and high temperatures. The cyclotron-resonance like absorption is observed at low…

We calculate the transport properties of multilayer graphene, considering the effect of multisubband scattering in a high density regime, where higher subbands are occupied by charge carriers. To calculate the conductivity of multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Seungchan Woo , E. H. Hwang , Hongki Min

The dependence of mesoscopic conductance fluctuations on parallel magnetic field is used as a probe of spin degeneracy in open GaAs quantum dots. The variance of fluctuations at high parallel field is reduced from the low-field variance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Folk , S. R. Patel , K. M. Birnbaum , C. M. Marcus , C. I. Duruoz , J. S. Harris

Excess conductance fluctuations with peculiar temperature-dependence from 1.4 to 250 K were observed in curved nano-graphite sheets with an electrode gap length of 300 and 450 nm, whereas the conductance fluctuation is greatly suppressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-31 Haomin Wang , Catherine Choong , Jun Zhang , Kie Leong Teo , Yihong Wu

The optical conductivity of graphite in quantizing magnetic fields is analytically evaluated for frequencies in the range of 10--300 meV, where the electron relaxation processes can be neglected and the low-energy excitations at the "Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 L. A. Falkovsky

The in-plane acoustic phonon scattering in graphene is solved by considering fully inelastic acoustic phonon scatterings in two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials for large range of temperature ($T$) and chemical potential ($\mu$). Rigorous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Khoe Van Nguyen , Yia-Chung Chang

We evaluate a typical value of higher order cumulants (irreducible moments) of conductance fluctuations that could be extracted from magneto-conductance measurements in a single sample when an external magnetic field is swept over an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Tsyplyatyev , I. L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Igor V. Lerner

Charge transport at the Dirac point in bilayer graphene exhibits two dramatically different transport states, insulating and metallic, that occur in apparently otherwise indistinguishable experimental samples. We demonstrate that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-01 Sam Shallcross , Sangeeta Sharma , Heiko B. Weber

We address local inelastic scattering from vibrational impurity adsorbed onto graphene and the evolution of the local density of electron states near the impurity from weak to strong coupling regime. For weak coupling the local electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 J. Fransson , J. -H. She , L. Pietronero , A. V. Balatsky

We investigate the conductivity of graphene sheet deformed over a gate. The effect of the deformation on the conductivity is twofold: The lattice distortion can be represented as pseudovector potential in the Dirac equation formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Medvedyeva , Ya. M. Blanter

A ballistic strip of graphene (width W>> length L) connecting two normal metal contacts is known to have a minimum conductivity of 4e^{2}/pi h at the Dirac point of charge neutrality. We calculate what happens if one of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We have investigated the electrical transport properties of Dirac electrons in a monolayer graphene sheet in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field that is modulated weakly and periodically along one direction.We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

The weak temperature dependence of the resistance R(T) of monolayer graphene1-3 indicates an extraordinarily high intrinsic mobility of the charge carriers. Important complications are the presence of mobile scattering centres that strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-18 Viera Skakalova , Alan B. Kaiser , Jai Seung Yoo , Dirk Obergfell , Siegmar Roth

We have investigated electron dynamics in top gated graphene by measuring the gate admittance of a diffusive graphene capacitor in a broad frequency range as a function of carrier density. The density of states, conductivity and diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-24 E. Pallecchi , A. C. Betz , J. Chaste , G. Fève , B. Huard , T. Kontos , J. -M. Berroir , B. Plaçais

Conductions fluctuations (CF) are studied in single layer graphene devices with superconducting source and drain contacts made from aluminium. The CF are found to be enhanced by superconductivity by a factor of 1.4 to 2. This (near)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-19 F. Freitag , J. Trbovic , C. Schönenberger

In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Caglar Girit , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

We report measurements of the cyclotron mass in graphene for carrier concentrations n varying over three orders of magnitude. In contrast to the single-particle picture, the real spectrum of graphene is profoundly nonlinear so that the…

We consider a graphene sheet in the vicinity of a substrate, which contains charged impurities. An analytic expression for the probability distribution function of voltage fluctuations due to the charged impurities is derived. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Victor Galitski , Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

The low-energy theory of graphene exhibits spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking due to pairing of quasiparticles and holes, corresponding to a semimetal-insulator transition at strong Coulomb coupling. We report a Lattice Monte Carlo study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-18 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde