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The breaking of time-reversal symmetry by ferromagnetism is predicted to yield profound changes to the electronic surface states of a topological insulator. Here, we report on a concerted set of structural, magnetic, electrical and…

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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Sergey Slizovskiy , Joseph Betouras

In this study we report our numerical results on finite temperature non-interacting dynamical polarization function, plasmon modes and electron energy loss function of doped single layer gapped graphene within the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Digish K. Patel , Syed S. Z. Ashraf , Ami C. Sharma

The conductivity and Hall effect were measured in CVD-grown monolayer graphene as a function of the gate voltage, $V_{g}$, at temperatures down to $T$ = 2 K and in magnetic fields up to $B$ = 8 T. The minimal conductivity was observed at…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-12 Erez Zion , Alexander Butenko , Amos Sharnoi , Moshe Kaveh , Issai Shlimak

The electronic transport experiments on topological insulators exhibit a dilemma. A negative cusp in magnetoconductivity is widely believed as a quantum transport signature of the topological surface states, which are immune from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We have discovered two-dimensional zero-gap material with a layered structure in the organic conductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ under high hydrostatic pressure. In contrast to graphene, the electron-hole symmetry is not good except at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 N. Tajima , R. Kato , S. Sugawara , Y. Nishio , K. Kajita

The reflectivity properties of graphene with nonzero mass-gap parameter are investigated in the framework of Dirac model using the polarization tensor in (2+1)-dimensional space-time. For this purpose, a more simple explicit representation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

The electromagnetic response of graphene in a magnetic field is studied, with particular emphasis on the quantum features of its ground state (vacuum). The graphene vacuum, unlike in conventional quantum Hall systems, is a dielectric medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shizuya

Here we show, with simultaneous transport and photoemission measurements, that the graphene terminated SiC(0001) surface undergoes a metal-insulator transition (MIT) upon dosingwith small amounts of atomic hydrogen. We find the room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-16 Aaron Bostwick , Jessica L. McChesney , Konstantin Emtsev , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Stephan D. Kevan , Eli Rotenberg

We study the realization in a model of graphene of the phenomenon whereby the tendency of gauge-field mediated interactions to break chiral symmetry spontaneously is greatly enhanced in an external magnetic field. We prove that, in the weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-09 Gordon W. Semenoff , Fei Zhou

We study graphene with an adsorbed spin texture, where the localized spins create a periodic magnetic flux. The latter produces gaps in the graphene spectrum and breaks the valley symmetry. The resulting effective electronic model, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-31 Antonio Hill , Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

We studied the unusual Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) near the charge neutrality point (CNP) in high-mobility graphene sample for magnetic fields up to 18 T. We observe breakdown of the delocalized QHE transport and strong increase in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 L. Zhang , J. Camacho , H. Cao , Y. P. Chen , M. Khodas , D. Kharzeev , A. Tsvelik , T. Valla , I. A. Zaliznyak

We present a theory of the finite temperature thermo-electric response functions of graphene, in the hydrodynamic regime induced by electron-electron collisions. In moderate magnetic fields, the Dirac particles undergo a collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-07 Markus Mueller , Subir Sachdev

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

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

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

The above question is frequently asked by theorists who are interested in graphene as a model system, especially in context of relativistic quantum physics. We offer an experimental answer by describing electron transport in suspended…

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

The effect of an inhomogeneous magnetic field which varies inversely as distance on the ground state energy level of graphene is studied. In this work, we analytically show that graphene under the influence of a magnetic field arising from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-05 M. R. Setare , D. Jahani

We report on the first measurement of the thermal conductivity of a suspended single layer graphene. The measurements were performed using a non-contact optical technique. The near room-temperature values of the thermal conductivity in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-15 A. A. Balandin , S. Ghosh , W. Bao , I. Calizo , D. Teweldebrhan , F. Miao , C. N. Lau

The Dirac fermions at the surface of a topological insulator can be gapped by introducing magnetic dopants. Alternatively, in an ultra-thin slab with thickness on the order of the extent of the surface states, both the top and bottom…

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