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We report the experimental observation of conductance quantization in graphene nanoribbons, where 1D transport subbands are formed due to the lateral quantum confinement. We show that this quantization in graphene nanoribbons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Yu-Ming Lin , Vasili Perebeinos , Zhihong Chen , Phaedon Avouris

We analyze the conductance of the quantum point contact containing large localized spin J. The additional plateau is formed on a ballistic conductance staircase if only one propagating channel is rendered conducting. The conductance value…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. A. Shelykh , N. G. Galkin , N. T. Bagraev

PbTe nanowires coupled to a superconductor have recently been proposed as a potential Majorana platform. The hallmark of the one-dimensional nature of ballistic nanowires is their quantized conductance. Here, we report the observation of…

Experimental conductance histograms built from several thousand successive breakings of sodium nanowires exhibit peaks up to rather high conductance values (100 x 2e^2/h). In this paper, we present results from a disordered free-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Burki , C. A. Stafford

Clean one-dimensional electron systems can exhibit quantized conductance. The plateau conductance doubles if the transport is dominated by Andreev reflection. Here, we report quantized conductance observed in both Andreev and normal-state…

We study the electron transport through a graphene nanoribbon-superconductor junction. Both zigzag and armchair edge graphene nanoribbons are considered, and the effects of the magnetic field and disorder on the transport property are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We study the effect of a structural nanoconstriction on the coherent transport properties of otherwise ideal zig-zag-edged infinitely long graphene ribbons. The electronic structure is calculated with the standard one-orbital tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Muñoz-Rojas , D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

Quantum information can be coded by the topologically protected edges of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Investigation on FQH edges in the hope of searching and utilizing non-Abelian statistics has been a focused challenge for years.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Jiaojie Yan , Yijia Wu , Shuai Yuan , Xiao Liu , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Yang Liu , Hailong Fu , X. C. Xie , Xi Lin

We have made a single-photon detector that relies on photoconductive gain in a narrow electron channel in an AlGaAs/GaAs 2-dimensional electron gas. Given that the electron channel is 1-dimensional, the photo-induced conductance has…

The conductivity of graphene samples with various levels of disorder is investigated for a set of specimens with mobility in the range of $1-20\times10^3$ cm$^2$/V sec. Comparing the experimental data with the theoretical transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-02 Y. -W. Tan , Y. Zhang , K. Bolotin , Y. Zhao , S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma , H. L. Stormer , P. Kim

In the present paper, using Pseudo-Quantum Electrodynamics to describe the interaction between electrons in graphene, we investigate the longitudinal and optical conductivities of a neutral graphene sheet near a grounded perfectly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-04 D. C. Pedrelli , D. T. Alves , V. S. Alves

We explore electrical transport through a point contact in strained HgTe, a three-dimensional topological insulator. In the absence of a magnetic field $B$, there is no quantization. However, under higher magnetic fields, we observe…

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the character of disorder. Away from half filling, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We measure the conductance of a quantum point contact (QPC) while the biased tip of a scanning probe microscope induces a depleted region in the electron gas underneath. At finite magnetic field we find plateaus in the real-space maps of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Nikola Pascher , Clemens Rössler , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider

We calculate the conductance of a quantum wire with two occupied subbands in a presence of a barrier taking into account the interaction between electrons. We extend the renormalization-group equation for the scattering matrix of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. V. Borin , K. E. Nagaev

The conductance steps in a constricted two-dimensional electron gas and the minimum conductivity in graphene are related to a new uncertainty relation between electric charge and conductance in a quantized electric circuit that mimics the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniela Dragoman

We investigate the impact of strained nanobubbles on the conductance characteristics of graphene nanoribbons using a combined molecular dynamics - tight-binding simulation scheme. We describe in detail how the conductance, density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 D. A. Bahamon , Zenan Qi , Harold S. Park , Vitor M. Pereira , David K. Campbell

We investigate the quantum transport dynamics of electrons in a multi-path Aharonov-Bohm interferometer comprising several parallel graphene nanoribbons. At low magnetic field strengths, the conductance displays a complex oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Cynthia I. Osuala , Zitao Tang , Stefan Strauf , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Chunlei Qu

We study numerically the effects of edge and bulk disorder on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons. We compute the conductance suppression due to localization induced by edge scattering. We find that even for weak edge roughness,…

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

Measurement and theory of the two-terminal conductance of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime are compared. We examine features of conductance as a function of gate voltage that allow monolayer, bilayer, and gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 J. R. Williams , D. A. Abanin , L. DiCarlo , L. S. Levitov , C. M. Marcus