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We have performed the first experimental investigation of quantum interference corrections to the conductivity of a bilayer graphene structure. A negative magnetoresistance - a signature of weak localisation - is observed at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. V. Gorbachev , F. V. Tikhonenko , A. S. Mayorov , D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko

Two-dimensional Dirac fermions are used to discuss quasiparticles in graphene in the presence of impurity scattering. Transport properties are completely dominated by diffusion. This may explain why recent experiments did not find weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Ziegler

We fabricated and measured antidot lattices in single layer graphene with lattice periods down to 90 nm. In large-period lattices, a well-defined quantum Hall effect is observed. Going to smaller antidot spacings the quantum Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-01 J. Eroms , D. Weiss

Non-trivial Berry phase of graphene leads to unusual quantum correction to the conductivity. Berry phase of pi in single layer graphene (SLG) and 2pi in bi-layer graphene (BLG) is expected to reveal weak anti-localization (WAL) and weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Chandan Kumar , Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Priyo Adhikary , Sumilan Banerjee , Tanmoy Das , Anindya Das

We calculate the interference correction to the conductivity of doped transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. Because of the interplay between valley structure and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC), these materials exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Stefan Ilic , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We report measurements of magnetoresistance in single-layer graphene as a function of gate voltage (carrier density) at 250 mK. By examining signatures of weak localization (WL) and universal conductance fluctuations (UCF), we find a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Yung-Fu Chen , Myung-Ho Bae , Cesar Chialvo , Travis Dirks , Alexey Bezryadin , Nadya Mason

At low temperatures, quantum corrections, originating from the interference of the many paths an electron may take between two points, tend to dominate the transport properties of two-dimensional conductors. These quantum corrections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Frederico Sousa , David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

We have experimentally investigated quantum interference corrections to the conductivity of graphene nanoribbons at temperatures down to 20 mK studying both weak localization (WL) and universal conductance fluctuations (UCF). Since in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Minke , J. Bundesmann , D. Weiss , J. Eroms

Charge carriers in a graphene sheet, a single layer of graphite, exhibit much distinctive characteristics to those in other two-dimensional electronic systems because of their chiral nature. In this report, we focus on the observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Dong-Keun Ki , Dongchan Jeong , Jae-Hyun Choi , Kee-Su Park , Hu-Jong Lee

We address the problem of Dirac fermions graphene quantum well and we focus on the low energy approximation for the Hamiltonian of the system where the former can be described by a Dirac-like Hamiltonian. Interesting relations are obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Mhamdi , E. Ben Salem , S. Jaziri

We study quantum interference corrections to the conductivity in (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors using a model with disordered valence band holes coupled to localized Mn moments through a p-d kinetic-exchange interaction. We find…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Ion Garate , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

We explore the longitudinal conductivity of graphene at the Dirac point in a strong magnetic field with two types of short-range scatterers: adatoms that mix the valleys and "scalar" impurities that do not mix them. A scattering theory for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 S. Gattenloehner , W. -R. Hannes , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , M. Titov

Using the Feynman diagram techniques, we derive the finite-temperature conductivity and magnetoconductivity formulas from the quantum interference and electron-electron interaction, for a three-dimensional disordered Weyl semimetal. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We induce surface carrier densities up to $\sim7\cdot 10^{14}$cm$^{-2}$ in few-layer graphene devices by electric double layer gating with a polymeric electrolyte. In 3-, 4- and 5-layer graphene below 20-30K we observe a logarithmic upturn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 R. S. Gonnelli , E. Piatti , A. Sola , M. Tortello , F. Dolcini , S. Galasso , J. R. Nair , C. Gerbaldi , E. Cappelluti , M. Bruna , A. C. Ferrari

In two dimensions chaotic level-statistics is expected for massless Dirac fermions in the presence of disorder. For weakly disordered graphene flakes with zigzag edges the obtained level-spacing distribution in the Dirac region is neither…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-12 H. Amanatidis , I. Kleftogiannis , D. E. Katsanos , S. N. Evangelou

We study the Euclidean effective action per unit area and the charge density for a Dirac field in a two--dimensional spatial region, in the presence of a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the 2D--plane, at finite temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Beneventano , Paola Giacconi , E. M. Santangelo , Roberto Soldati

Originating from relativistic quantum field theory, Dirac fermions have been recently applied to study various peculiar phenomena in condensed matter physics, including the novel quantum Hall effect in graphene, magnetic field driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-04-10 S. Y. Zhou , G. -H. Gweon , J. Graf , A. V. Fedorov , C. D. Spataru , R. D. Diehl , Y. Kopelevich , D. -H. Lee , Steven G. Louie , A. Lanzara

We study the quantization of Dirac fermions in lithographically defined graphene nanoconstrictions. We observe quantized conductance in single nanoconstrictions fabricated on top of a thin hexamethyldisilazane layer over a Si/SiO_2 wafer.…

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

Quantum coherent effects can be probed in multilayer graphene through electronic transport measurements at low temperatures. In particular, bilayer graphene is known to be susceptible to quantum interference corrections of the conductivity,…