• 文献标题:   Insulating to relativistic quantum Hall transition in disordered graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PALLECCHI E, RIDENE M, KAZAZIS D, LAFONT F, SCHOPFER F, POIRIER W, GOERBIG MO, MAILLY D, OUERGHI A
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   CNRS
  • 被引频次:   25
  • DOI:   10.1038/srep01791
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Quasi-particle excitations in graphene exhibit a unique behavior concerning two key phenomena of mesoscopic physics: electron localization and the quantum Hall effect. A direct transition between these two states has been found in disordered two-dimensional electron gases at low magnetic field. It has been suggested that it is a quantum phase transition, but the nature of the transition is still debated. Despite the large number of works studying either the localization or the quantum Hall regime in graphene, such a transition has not been investigated for Dirac fermions. Here we discuss measurements on low-mobility graphene where the localized state at low magnetic fields and a quantum Hall state at higher fields are observed. We find that the system undergoes a direct transition from the insulating to the Hall conductor regime. Remarkably, the transverse magneto-conductance shows a temperature independent crossing point, pointing to the existence of a genuine quantum phase transition.