• 文献标题:   Transmission coefficient through a saddle-point electrostatic potential for graphene in the quantum Hall regime
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FLOSER M, FLORENS S, CHAMPEL T
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Grenoble 1
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.82.161408
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

From the scattering of semicoherent-state wave packets at high magnetic field, we derive analytically the transmission coefficient of electrons in graphene in the quantum Hall regime through a smooth constriction described by a quadratic saddle-point electrostatic potential. We find anomalous half-quantized conductance steps that are rounded by a backscattering amplitude related to the curvature of the potential. Furthermore, the conductance in graphene breaks particle-hole symmetry in cases where the saddle-point potential is itself asymmetric in space. These results have implications both for the interpretation of split-gate transport experiments and for the derivation of quantum-percolation models for graphene.