• 文献标题:   Interaction-induced conductance from zero modes in a clean magnetic graphene waveguide
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   COHNITZ L, HAUSLER W, ZAZUNOV A, EGGER R
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Dusseldorf
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.92.085422
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

We consider a waveguide formed in a clean graphene monolayer by a spatially inhomogeneous magnetic field. The single-particle dispersion relation for this waveguide exhibits a zero-energy Landau-like flat band, while finite-energy bands have dispersion and correspond, in particular, to snake orbits. For zero-mode states, all matrix elements of the current operator vanish, and a finite conductance can only be caused by virtual transitions to finite-energy bands. We show that Coulomb interactions generate such processes. In stark contrast to finite-energy bands, the conductance is not quantized and shows a characteristic dependence on the zero-mode filling. Transport experiments thereby offer a novel and highly sensitive probe of electron-electron interactions in clean graphene samples. We argue that this interaction-driven zero-mode conductor may also appear in other physical settings and is not captured by the conventional Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid description.