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We use numerical simulations to predict peculiar magnetotransport fingerprints in polycrystalline graphene, driven by the presence of grain boundaries of varying size and orientation. The formation of Landau levels is shown to be restricted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Aron W. Cummings , Alessandro Cresti , Stephan Roche

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

In the quantum Hall effect (QHE) the differential resistivity $r_{xx} \equiv r$ vanishes within a range where the Hall resistivity forms a plateau. A microscopic theory is developed, starting with a crystal lattice, setting up a BCS-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 S. Fujita , H. C. Ho

Measurements of fractional multiples of the {\nu}=2 plateau quantized Hall resistance (R_H {\approx} 12906 {\Omega}) were enabled by the utilization of multiple current terminals on millimetre-scale graphene p-n junction devices fabricated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Dinesh K. Patel , Martina Marzano , Chieh-I Liu , Mattias Kruskopf , Randolph E. Elmquist , Chi-Te Liang , Albert F. Rigosi

We investigate electronic transport in high mobility (\textgreater 100,000 cm$^2$/V$\cdot$s) trilayer graphene devices on hexagonal boron nitride, which enables the observation of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and an unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Thiti Taychatanapat , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We report on the observation of quantum transport and interference in a graphene device that is attached with a pair of split gates to form an electrostatically-defined quantum point contact (QPC). In the low magnetic field regime, the…

We examine the longitudinal, non-linear, current-voltage characteristics near the quantum Hall liquid to insulator transition and show that a simple mapping exists between the characteristics on the quantum Hall side and those on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Shahar , D. C. Tsui , M. Shayegan , E. Shimshoni , S. L. Sondhi

Owing to their wide tunability, spin- and valley internal degrees of freedom, and low disorder, graphene heterostructures are emerging as a promising experimental platform for fractional quantum Hall (FQH) studies. Surprisingly, however,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Hryhoriy Polshyn , Haoxin Zhou , Eric. M. Spanton , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Andrea F. Young

We describe transport properties of two-dimensional arrays of low capacitance tunnel junctions, such as the current voltage characteristic and its dependence on external magnetic field and temperature. We discuss several experiments in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Delsing , C. D. Chen , D. B. Haviland , Tobias Bergsten , T. Claeson

The magnetic field-dependent longitudinal and Hall components of the resistivity rho_xx(H) and rho_xy(H) are measured in graphene on silicon dioxide substrates at temperatures from 1.6 K to room temperature. At charge densities near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sungjae Cho , Michael S. Fuhrer

The surface states of topological insulators, which behave as charged massless Dirac fermions, are studied in the presence of a quantizing uniform magnetic field. Using the method of D.H. Lee[1], analytical formula satisfied by the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Oskar Vafek

Quantum anomalous Hall state is expected to emerge in Dirac electron systems such as graphene under both sufficiently strong exchange and spin-orbit interactions. In pristine graphene, neither interaction exists; however, both interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Chi Tang , Bin Cheng , Mohammed Aldosary , Zhiyong Wang , Zilong Jiang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Marc Bockrath , Jing Shi

The quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect has been predicted to occur in magnetic topological insulators, but the experimental realization has been challenging. Here, we report the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH)…

We have performed a metrological characterization of the quantum Hall resistance in a 1 $\mu$m wide graphene Hall-bar. The longitudinal resistivity in the center of the $\nu=\pm 2$ quantum Hall plateaus vanishes within the measurement noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 A. J. M. Giesbers , G. Rietveld , E. Houtzager , U. Zeitler , R. Yang , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , J. C. Maan

Plateau-plateau (P-P) and insulator-quantum Hall conductor (I-QH) transitions are observed in the two-dimensional electron system in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure. At high fields, the critical conductivities are not of the expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. F. Huang , Y. H. Chang , H. H. Cheng , C. -T. Liang , G. J. Hwang

A gate induced insulating behavior at zero magnetic field is observed in a high mobility suspended monolayer graphene near the charge neutrality point. The graphene device initially cleaned by a current annealing technique was undergone a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Cenk Yanik , Vahid Sazgari , Abdulkadir Canatar , Yaser Vaheb , Ismet I. Kaya

We study a two-terminal graphene Josephson junction with contacts shaped to form a narrow constriction, less than 100nm in length. The contacts are made from type II superconducting contacts and able to withstand magnetic fields high enough…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 M. T. Wei , A. W. Draelos , A. Seredinski , C. T. Ke , H. Li , Y. Mehta , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G. Finkelstein , F. Amet , I. V. Borzenets

We model the quantum Hall effect in heterostructures made of two gapped graphene stripes with different gaps, $\Delta_1$ and $\Delta_2$. We consider two main situations, $\Delta_1=0,\Delta_2\neq0$ and $\Delta_1=-\Delta_2$. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 J. L. Lado , J. W. González , J. Fernández-Rossier

Graphene, in addition to its unique electronic and optical properties, revealed unusually high thermal conductivity. The fact that thermal conductivity of large enough graphene sheets should be higher than that of basal planes of bulk…

Precision measurements of the quantum Hall resistance with alternating current (ac) in the kHz range were performed on epitaxial graphene in order to assess its suitability as a quantum standard of impedance. The quantum Hall plateaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 C. -C. Kalmbach , J. Schurr , F. J. Ahlers , A. Müller , S. Novikov , N. Lebedeva , A. Satrapinski