• 文献标题:   Localization and the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Disordered Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG YY, HU JP, BERNEVIG BA, WANG XR, XIE XC, LIU WM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Purdue Univ
  • 被引频次:   109
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.106401
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We investigate disordered graphene with strong long-range impurities. Contrary to the common belief that delocalization should persist in such a system against any disorder, as the system is expected to be equivalent to a disordered two-dimensional Dirac fermionic system, we find that states near the Dirac points are localized for sufficiently strong disorder (therefore inevitable intervalley scattering) and the transition between the localized and delocalized states is of Kosterlitz-Thouless type. Our results show that the transition originates from bounding and unbounding of local current vortices.