Universal Landauer conductance in chiral symmetric two-dimensional systems
Abstract
We study the transport properties of an arbitrarily shaped ultraclean graphene sheet, which is adiabatically connected to leads that are composed of the same material. If the localized interactions do not destroy the chiral symmetry, we show that the conductance is quantized, since it is dominated by the quasi-one-dimensional leads. As an example, we show that the smooth structural deformations of the graphene plane do not modify the conductance quantization.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- March 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.125128
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0712.0080
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvB..77l5128B
- Keywords:
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- 72.10.Bg;
- 73.23.Ad;
- 71.10.Pm;
- 71.10.Fd;
- General formulation of transport theory;
- Ballistic transport;
- Fermions in reduced dimensions;
- Lattice fermion models;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, no figures