Nomura Kentaro, Ryu Shinsei, Koshino Mikito, Mudry Christopher, Furusaki Akira
Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jun 20;100(24):246806. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.246806.
The effect of strong long-range disorder on the quantization of the Hall conductivity sigma{xy} in graphene is studied numerically. It is shown that increasing Landau-level mixing progressively destroys all plateaus in sigma{xy} except the plateaus at sigma{xy}=-/+e{2}/2h (per valley and per spin). The critical state at the Dirac point is robust to strong disorder and belongs to the universality class of the conventional plateau transitions in the integer quantum Hall effect. We propose that the breaking of time-reversal symmetry by ripples in graphene can realize this quantum critical point in a vanishing magnetic field.
通过数值研究了强长程无序对石墨烯中霍尔电导率σxy量子化的影响。结果表明,除了σxy = -/+e²/2h(每个谷和每个自旋)处的平台外,Landau能级混合的增加会逐渐破坏σxy中的所有平台。狄拉克点处的临界态对强无序具有鲁棒性,属于整数量子霍尔效应中传统平台跃迁的普适类。我们提出,石墨烯中的波纹破坏时间反演对称性可以在零磁场中实现这个量子临界点。