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We study the conductance of graphene nanoribbons with long-range disorder. Due to the absence of intervalley scattering from the disorder potential, time-reversal symmetry (TRS) can be effectively broken even without a magnetic field,…

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We consider magnetotransport in high-mobility 2D electron gas in a non-quantizing magnetic field. We employ a weakly chiral network model to test numerically the prediction of the scaling theory that the transition from an Anderson to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-01-19 M. Ortuño , A. M. Somoza , V. V. Mkhitaryan , M. E. Raikh

Low temperature magnetoconductance measurements were made in the vicinity of the charge neutrality point. Two origins for the fluctuations were identified close to the CNP. At very low magnetic fields there exist only mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Simon Branchaud , Alicia Kam , Piotr Zawadzki , Francois M. Peeters , Andrew S. Sachrajda

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

Topological Weyl semimetals can host Weyl nodes with monopole charges in momentum space. How to detect the signature of the monopole charges in quantum transport remains a challenging topic. Here, we reveal the connection between the parity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Xin Dai , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen , Hong Yao

An efficient computational methodology is used to explore charge transport properties in chemically-modified (and randomly disordered) graphene-based materials. The Hamiltonians of various complex forms of graphene are constructed using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Nicolas Leconte , Aurélien Lherbier , François Varchon , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

The conductance of metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with single defects and weak disorder at their edges is investigated in a tight-binding model. We find that a single edge defect will induce quasi-localized states and consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 T. C. Li , Shao-Ping Lu

Quantum corrections to electrical resistance can serve as sensitive probes of the magnetic landscape of a material. For example, interference between time-reversed electron paths gives rise to weak localization effects, which can provide…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-31 Xinxin Cai , Jin Yue , Peng Xu , Bharat Jalan , Vlad S. Pribiag

The nature of the electronic ground states in strained undoped graphene at weak interaction between electrons is discussed. After providing a lattice realization of the strain-induced axial magnetic field we numerically find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Bitan Roy , Igor F. Herbut

We study the localization properties of two-dimensional electrons in a weak perpendicular magnetic field. For this purpose we construct weakly chiral network models on the square and triangular lattices, by separating in space the regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 V. V. Mkhitaryan , V. Kagalovsky , M. E. Raikh

Early experiments on alkali-doped graphene demonstrated that the dopant adatoms modify the conductivity of graphene significantly, as extra carriers enhance conductivity while Coulomb scattering off the adatoms suppresses it. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ali Khademi , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Pinder Dosanjh , Alexander Stöhr , Stiven Forti , Ulrich Starke , Joshua A. Folk

The weak-localization contribution \delta\sigma(B) to the conductivity of a tunnel-coupled double-layer electron system is evaluated and its behavior in weak magnetic fields B perpendicular or parallel to the layers is examined. In a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

We study interlayer transport of multilayer graphenes in magnetic field with various stacking structures (AB, ABC, and AA types) by calculating the Hall and longitudinal conductivities as functions of Fermi energy. Their behavior depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Takeo Wakutsu , Masaaki Nakamura , Balázs Dóra

We have studied the phenomenon of weak localization in multi-quantum-well (MQW) structures in the regime of weak tunneling, when superlattice minibands are not formed. We have calculated the effect of weak localization on conductivity,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. G. Pikus , G. E. Pikus

Interlayer coupling in rotationally faulted graphene multilayers breaks the local sublattice-symmetry of the individual layers. We present a theory of this mechanism, which reduces to an effective Dirac model with space-dependent mass in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Kindermann , P. N. First

We used a quantum Monte Carlo method to study the magnetic impurity adatoms on graphene. We found that by tuning the chemical potential we could switch the values of the impurity's local magnet moment between relatively large and small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-05 F. M. Hu , Tianxing Ma , Hai-Qing Lin , J. E. Gubernatis

We have investigated the gate-voltage dependence and the temperature dependence of the magnetoconductivity of amorphous indium-gallium-zinc-oxide thin-film transistors. A weak-localization feature is observed at small magnetic fields on top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Wei-Hsiang Wang , Syue-Ru Lyu , Elica Heredia , Shu-Hao Liu , Pei-hsun Jiang , Po-Yung Liao , Ting-Chang Chang , Hua-Mao Chen

Moir\'e superlattice created by twist stacking has multiple physical properties. These physical properties depend on the twist angle, hence investigation of the twist angle dependency is important for the deep understanding of physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Masaki Kashiwagi , Toshihiro Taen , Kazuhito Uchida , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Toshihito Osada

The weak localization correction to the conductivity of a granular metal is calculated using the diagrammatic technique in the reciprocal grain lattice representation. The properties of this correction are very similar to that one in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Biagini , T. Caneva , V. Tognetti , A. A. Varlamov

We report on a numerical study of quantum transport in disordered two dimensional graphene and graphene nanoribbons. By using the Kubo and the Landauer approaches, transport length scales in the diffusive (mean free path, charge mobilities)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Aurelien Lherbier , Blanca Biel , Yann-Michel Niquet , Stephan Roche