• 文献标题:   Insulating Behavior at the Neutrality Point in Single-Layer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   AMET F, WILLIAMS JR, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, GOLDHABERGORDON D
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Stanford Univ
  • 被引频次:   54
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.216601
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

The fate of the low-temperature conductance at the charge-neutrality (Dirac) point in a single sheet of graphene on boron nitride is investigated down to 20 mK. As the temperature is lowered, the peak resistivity diverges with a power-law behavior and becomes as high as several megohms per square at the lowest temperature, in contrast with the commonly observed saturation of the conductivity. As a perpendicular magnetic field is applied, our device remains insulating and directly transitions to the broken-valley-symmetry, nu = 0 quantum Hall state, indicating that the insulating behavior we observe at zero magnetic field is a result of broken valley symmetry. Finally we discuss the possible origins of this effect.