• 文献标题:   Absence of a metallic phase in charge-neutral graphene with a random gap
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BARDARSON JH, MEDVEDYEVA MV, TWORZYDLO J, AKHMEROV AR, BEENAKKER CWJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.81.121414
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

It is known that fluctuations in the electrostatic potential allow for metallic conduction (nonzero conductivity in the limit of an infinite system) if the carriers form a single species of massless two-dimensional Dirac fermions. A nonzero uniform mass M opens up an excitation gap, localizing all states at the Dirac point of charge neutrality. Here we investigate numerically whether fluctuations delta MM not equal 0 in the mass can have a similar effect as potential fluctuations, allowing for metallic conduction at the Dirac point. Our negative conclusion confirms earlier expectations but does not support the recently predicted metallic phase in a random-gap model of graphene.