• 文献标题:   Multiple Virtual Tunneling of Dirac Fermions in Granular Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PACHOUD A, JAISWAL M, WANG Y, HONG BH, AHN JH, LOH KP, OZYILMAZ B
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Univ Singapore
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1038/srep03404
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Graphene charge carriers behave as massless Dirac fermions, opening the exciting possibility to observe long-range virtual tunneling of electrons in a solid. In granular metals, electron hops arising from series of virtual transitions are predicted to yield observable currents at low-enough temperatures, but to date experimental evidence is lacking. We report on electron transport in granular graphene films self-assembled by hydrogenation of suspended graphene. While the log-conductance shows a characteristic T-1/2 temperature dependence, cooling the samples below 10 K drives a triple crossover: a slope break in log-conductance, simultaneous to a substantial increase in magneto-conductance and onset of large mesoscopic conductance fluctuations. These phenomena are signatures of virtual transitions of electrons between distant localized states, and conductance statistics reveal that the high crossover-temperature is due to the Dirac nature of granular graphene charge carriers.