• 文献标题:   Zitterbewegung, chirality, and minimal conductivity in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KATSNELSON MI
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  • 出版物名称:   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B
  • ISSN:   1434-6028 EI 1434-6036
  • 通讯作者地址:   Radboud Univ Nijmegen
  • 被引频次:   475
  • DOI:   10.1140/epjb/e2006-00203-1
  • 出版年:   2006

▎ 摘  要

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of e(2)/h in the limit of zero temperature and zero charge carrier density is one of the striking features of this system. Here we analyze this peculiarity based on the Kubo and Landauer formulas. The appearance of a finite conductivity without scattering is shown to be a characteristic property of Dirac chiral fermions in two dimensions.