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We study transport of two-dimensional quasi-relativistic electronic excitations in graphene in the presence of static long-range-correlated random scalar and vector potentials. Using a combination of perturbation theory and path-integral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 D. V. Khveshchenko

The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 E. Rossi , J. H. Bardarson , M. S. Fuhrer , S. Das Sarma

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 compare a fully quantum mechanical numerical calculation of the conductivity of graphene to the semiclassical Boltzmann theory. Considering a disorder potential that is smooth on the scale of the lattice spacing, we find quantitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-28 Shaffique Adam , Piet W. Brouwer , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the contribution of charge puddles to the non-vanishing conductivity minimum in disordered graphene flakes at the charge neutrality point. For that purpose, we study systems with a geometry that suppresses the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

The electric conductance of a strip of undoped graphene increases in the presence of a disorder potential, which is smooth on atomic scales. The phenomenon is attributed to impurity-assisted resonant tunneling of massless Dirac fermions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Titov

We study the conductance of disordered graphene superlattices with short-range structural correlations. The system consists of electron- and hole-doped graphenes of various thicknesses, which fluctuate randomly around their mean value. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Abedpour , Ayoub Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

Our previous results on the nonperturbative calculations of the mean current and of the energy-momentum tensor in QED with the T-constant electric field are generalized to arbitrary dimensions. The renormalized mean values are found; the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-24 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , N. Yokomizo

We experimentally investigate electrical transport properties of graphene, which is a two dimensional (2D) conductor with relativistic energy dispersion relation. By investigating single- and bi-layer graphene devices with different aspect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Miao , S. Wijeratne , U. Coskun , Y. Zhang , C. N. Lau

The phase space for graphene's minimum conductivity $\sigma_\mathrm{min}$ is mapped out using Landauer theory modified for scattering using Fermi's Golden Rule, as well as the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulation with a Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Redwan N. Sajjad , Frank Tseng , K. M. Masum Habib , Avik W. Ghosh

We study the voltage drop along three-terminal disordered wires in all transport regimes, from the ballistic to the localized regime. This is performed by measuring the voltage drop on one side of a one-dimensional disordered wire in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 A. M. Martínez-Argüello , J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez , M. Martínez-Mares

For electron transport in parallel-plane semiconducting structures, a model is developed that unifies ballistic and diffusive transport and thus generalizes the Drude model. The unified model is valid for arbitrary magnitude of the mean…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Lipperheide , T. Weis , U. Wille

Using the recursive Green's function method, we study the problem of electron transport in a disordered single-layer graphene sheet. The conductivity is of order $e^2/h$ and its dependence on the carrier density has a scaling form that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Antonio H. Castro Neto

We study the effect of disorder on the particle density evolution in a classical Hamiltonian driven lattice setup. If the disorder is localized within a finite sub-domain of the lattice, the emergence of strong tails in the density…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Thomas Wulf , Alexander Okupnik , Peter Schmelcher

We perform a MonteCarlo simulation in order to study the connection between the morphology and the transport properties of grain boundaries (GBs) in graphene. We explore the configurational space of GBs to generate ensembles of realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Fernando Gargiulo

We fabricated graphene pnp devices, by embedding pre-defined local gates in an oxidized surface layer of a silicon substrate. With neither dielectric-material deposition nor electron-beam irradiation on the graphene, we obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Seung-Geol Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Jong Wan Park , Youngwook Kim , Jun Sung Kim , Hu-Jong Lee

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

We report on a numerical study of quantum transport in disordered two dimensional graphene and graphene nanoribbons. By using the Kubo and the Landauer approaches, transport length scales in the diffusive (mean free path, charge mobilities)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Aurelien Lherbier , Blanca Biel , Yann-Michel Niquet , Stephan Roche

A tight-binding model with randomly fluctuating atomic positions is studied to discuss the effect of strong disorder in graphene. We employ a strong-disorder expansion for the transport quantities and find a diffusive behavior, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-22 K. Ziegler