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Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We discuss the influence of the electromagnetic environment and the electron-electron interaction on the weak localization correction to the conductivity of a disordered metal. The theory of this phenomenon for sufficiently high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Vavilov , Vinay Ambegaokar

We develop a theory for graphene magnetotransport in the presence of carrier spin polarization as induced, for example, by the application of an in-plane magnetic field ($B$) parallel to the 2D graphene layer. We predict a negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We introduce a different perspective describing electron-phonon interactions in graphene based on curved space hydrodynamics. Interactions of phonons with charge carriers increase the electrical resistivity of the material. Our approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Ilario Giordanelli , Miller Mendoza , Hans Herrmann

Sub-dimensional localization, also known as directional localization, arises when 2d electrons are subject to a periodic potential and incommensurate magnetic field which cause them to become exponentially localized along one crystal axis,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Nisarga Paul , Philip J. D. Crowley

Observations of electron-hole asymmetry in transport through graphene devices at high magnetic field challenge prevalent models of the graphene quantum Hall effect. Here, we study this asymmetry both in conventional magnetotransport and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Nicolas Moreau , Boris Brun , Sowmya Somanchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer , Benoît Hackens

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto

The electrical conductivity of graphene with a nonzero mass-gap parameter is investigated starting from the first principles of quantum electrodynamics in (2+1)-dimensional space-time at any temperature. The formalism of the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We report a theoretical low-field magnetotransport study unveiling the effect of pseudospin in realistic models of weakly disordered graphene-based materials. Using an efficient Kubo computational method, and simulating the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Frank Ortmann , Alessandro Cresti , Gilles Montambaux , Stephan Roche

The differential conductance of graphene is shown to exhibit a zero-bias anomaly at low temperatures, arising from a suppression of the quantum corrections due to weak localization and electron interactions. A simple rescaling of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-18 R. Somphonsane , H. Ramamoorthy , G. He , J. Nathawat , S. Yin , J. P. Bird , C. -P. Kwan , N. Arabchigavkani , B. Barut , M. Zhao , Z. Jin , J. Fransson

The quantum Hall effect is observed in a two-dimensional electron gas formed in millimeter-scale hydrogenated graphene, with a mobility less than 10 $\mathrm{cm^{2}/V\cdot s}$ and corresponding Ioffe-Regel disorder parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 J. Guillemette , S. S. Sabri , B. Wu , K. Bennaceur , P. E. Gaskell , M. Savard , P. L. Lévesque , F. Mahvash , A. Guermoune , M. Siaj , R. Martel , T. Szkopek , G. Gervais

Effects of disorder on the electronic transport properties of graphene are strongly affected by the Dirac nature of the charge carriers in graphene. This is particularly pronounced near the Dirac point, where relativistic charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

Theory of interference-induced quantum corrections to conductivity is developed for two dimensional systems with chiral spin textures including skyrmions. The effect of exchange interaction between electrons and spin textures on weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 K. S. Denisov , L. E. Golub

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

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

Understanding magnetoresistance, the change in electrical resistance upon an external magnetic field, at the atomic level is of great interest both fundamentally and technologically. Graphene and other two-dimensional layered materials…

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

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,…

The relativistic nature of Dirac electrons and holes in graphene profoundly affects the way they interact with impurities. Signatures of the relativistic behavior have been observed recently in scanning tunneling measurements on individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

In the quantum Hall regime of graphene, antiferromagnetic and spin-polarized ferromagnetic states at the zeroth Landau level compete, leading to a canted antiferromagnetic state depending on the direction and magnitude of an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Y. Li , M. Amado , T. Hyart , G. P. Mazur , V. Risinggård , T. Wagner , L. McKenzie Sell , G. Kimbell , J. Wunderlich , J. Linder , J. W. A. Robinson