• 文献标题:   Spin-resolved quantum interference in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LUNDEBERG MB, FOLK JA
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1745-2473 EI 1745-2481
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ British Columbia
  • 被引频次:   44
  • DOI:   10.1038/NPHYS1421
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene(1) make it a promising materials system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin-transport properties are expected to be particularly interesting, with predictions for extremely long coherence times and intrinsic spin-polarized states at zero field(2-5). To test such predictions, it is necessary to measure the spin polarization of electrical currents in graphene. Here, we resolve spin transport directly from conductance features that are caused by quantum interference. These features split visibly in an in-plane magnetic field, similar to Zeeman splitting in atomic and quantum-dot systems(6,7). The spin-polarized conductance features that are the subject of this work may, in the future, lead to the development of graphene devices incorporating interference-based spin filters.