• 文献标题:   Charge transport in graphene-based mesoscopic realizations of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CAN O, NICA EM, FRANZ M
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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 British Columbia
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.99.045419
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We consider a recent proposal for a physical realization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the zeroth-Landau-level sector of an irregularly shaped graphene flake. We study in detail charge transport signatures of the unique non-Fermi-liquid state of such a quantum dot coupled to noninteracting leads. The properties of this setup depend essentially on the ratio p between the number of transverse modes in the lead M and the number of the fermion degrees of freedom N on the SYK dot. This ratio can be tuned via the magnetic field applied to the dot. Our proposed setup gives access to the nontrivial conformal-invariant regime associated with the SYK model as well as a more conventional Fermi-liquid regime via tuning the field. The dimensionless linear-response conductance acquires distinct root p, and 1/root p, dependencies for the two phases, respectively, in the low-temperature limit, with a universal jump at the transition. We find that corrections scale linearly and quadratically in either temperature or frequency on the two sides of the transition. In the weak-tunneling regime, we find differential conductance proportional to the inverse square root of the applied voltage bias U. This dependence is replaced by a conventional Ohmic behavior with constant conductance proportional to 1/root T for bias energy eU smaller than temperature scale k(B)T. We also describe the out-of-equilibrium current-bias characteristics and discuss various crossovers between the limiting behaviors mentioned above.