• 文献标题:   Shot noise generated by graphene p-n junctions in the quantum Hall effect regime
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KUMADA N, PARMENTIER FD, HIBINO H, GLATTLI DC, ROULLEAU P
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   NTT Corp
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1038/ncomms9068
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Graphene offers a unique system to investigate transport of Dirac Fermions at p-n junctions. In a magnetic field, combination of quantum Hall physics and the characteristic transport across p-n junctions leads to a fractionally quantized conductance associated with the mixing of electron-like and hole-like modes and their subsequent partitioning. The mixing and partitioning suggest that a p-n junction could be used as an electronic beam splitter. Here we report the shot noise study of the mode-mixing process and demonstrate the crucial role of the p-n junction length. For short p-n junctions, the amplitude of the noise is consistent with an electronic beam-splitter behaviour, whereas, for longer p-n junctions, it is reduced by the energy relaxation. Remarkably, the relaxation length is much larger than typical size of mesoscopic devices, encouraging using graphene for electron quantum optics and quantum information processing.