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We compute the magnetization of graphene in a magnetic field, taking into account for generality the possibility of a mass gap. We concentrate on the physical regime where quantum oscillations are not observed due to the effect of the…

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

We study fluctuations of the conductance of micron-sized graphene devices as a function of the Fermi energy and magnetic field. The fluctuations are studied in combination with analysis of weak localization which is determined by the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko , F. V. Tikhonenko , K. Kechedzhi , I. V. Lerner , V. I. Fal'ko

Collective transport through a multichannel disordered conductor in contact with charge-density-wave electrodes is theoretically investigated. The statistical distribution function of the threshold potential for charge-density wave sliding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark I. Visscher , Behzad Rejaei , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We report on low temperature (2-30K) electron transport and magneto-transport measurements of a chemically synthesized InAs nanowire. Both the temperature, T, and transverse magnetic field dependences of the nanowire conductance are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dong Liang , Mohammed R. Sakr , Xuan P. A. Gao

We generalize the definition of localization length to disordered systems driven by a time-periodic potential using a Floquet-Green function formalism. We study its dependence on the amplitude and frequency of the driving field in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Dario F. Martinez , Rafael A. Molina

We show that electron states in disordered graphene, with an onsite potential that induces inter-valley scattering, are localised for all energies at disorder as small as 1/6 of the band width of clean graphene. We clarify that, in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 C. González-Santander , F. Domínguez-Adame , M. Hilke , R. A. Römer

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of a ferromagnetic/strained/normal graphene junctions with central region subjected to a magnetic field $B$. An analytical approach, based on Dirac equation, is implemented to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Youness Zahidi , Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Graphene is a model system for the study of electrons confined to a strictly two-dimensional layer1 and a large number of electronic phenomena have been demonstrated in graphene, from the fractional2, 3 quantum Hall effect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jian-Hao Chen , W. G. Cullen , E. D. Williams , M. S. Fuhrer

Particle localization is an essential ingredient in quantum Hall physics [1,2]. In conventional high mobility two-dimensional electron systems Coulomb interactions were shown to compete with disorder and to play a central role in particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , K. von Klitzing , J. H. Smet , A. Yacoby

Graphite is a well-studied material with known electronic and optical properties. Graphene, on the other hand, which is just one layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has been studied theoretically for quite some time but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Molitor , D. Graf , C. Stampfer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We report a metal-insulator transition in disordered graphene with low coverages of hydrogen atoms. Hydrogen interacting with graphene creates short-range disorder and localizes states near the neutrality point. The energy range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Junhyeok Bang , K. J. Chang

We report experimental data and theoretical analysis of Coulomb drag between two closely positioned graphene monolayers in weak magnetic field. Close enough to the neutrality point, coexistence of electrons and holes in each layer leads to…

The aim of this work is to describe the electronic properties of graphene in a constant magnetic field in the long wavelength approximation with random binary disorder, by solving the Soven equation self-consistently. Density of state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

A random-matrix theory is presented which shows that breaking time-reversal symmetry by itself does {\em not} suppress the weak-localization correction to the conductance of a disordered metal wire attached to a superconductor. Suppression…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Brouwer , C. W. J. Beenakker

We investigate the magnetotransport properties of a thin graphite wire resting on a silicon oxide substrate. The electric field effect is demonstrated with back and side gate electrodes. We study the conductance fluctuations as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Graf , F. Molitor , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

For a sample of an arbitrary shape, the dependence of its conductance on the longitudinal and Hall conductivity is identical to that of a rectangle. We use analytic results for a conducting rectangle, combined with the semicircle model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-12 Dmitry A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov

We have achieved mobilities in excess of 200,000 cm^2/Vs at electron densities of ~2*10^11 cm^-2 by suspending single layer graphene. Suspension ~150 nm above a Si/SiO_2 gate electrode and electrical contacts to the graphene was achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. I. Bolotin , K. J. Sikes , Z. Jiang , M. Klima , G. Fudenberg , J. Hone , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer

A clear gate voltage tunable weak antilocalization and a giant magnetoresistance of 400 percent are observed at 1.9 K in single layer graphene with an out-of-plane field. A large magnetoresistance value of 275 percent is obtained even at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Kalon Gopinadhan , Young Jun Shin , Indra Yudhistira , Jing Niu , Hyunsoo Yang

We report on the observation of weak localization in arrays of (Ga,Mn)As nanowires at millikelvin temperatures. The corresponding phase coherence length is typically between 100 nm and 200 nm at 20 mK. Strong spin-orbit interaction in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Neumaier , K. Wagner , S. Geissler , U. Wurstbauer , J. Sadowski , W. Wegscheider , D. Weiss

Calculating the density-density correlation function for disordered wires, we study localization properties of wave functions in a magnetic field. The supersymmetry technique combined with the transfer matrix method is used. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Kolesnikov , K. B. Efetov