Electronic transport in graphene: quantum effects and role of local defects

DOI10.1142/S0217984911026747MaRDI QIDQ4910341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Didier Mayou

Publication date 18 March 2013

Published in Modern Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4067

zbMATH Keywords

graphenenumerical calculationquantum transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

Abstract: In this paper we present generic properties of quantum transport in mono-layer graphene. In the scheme of the Kubo-Geenwood formula, we compute the square spreading of wave packets of a given energy with is directly related to conductivity. As a first result, we compute analytically the time dependent diffusion for pure graphene. In addition to the semi-classical term a second term exists that is due to matrix elements of the velocity operator between electron and hole bands. This term is related to velocity fluctuations i.e. Zitterbewegung effect. Secondly, we study numerically the quantum diffusion in graphene with simple vacancies and pair of neighboring vacancies (divacancies), that simulate schematically oxidation, hydrogenation and other functionalisations of graphene. We analyze in particular the time dependence of the diffusion and its dependence on energy in relation with the electronic structure. We compute also the mean free path and the semi-classical value of the conductivity as a function of energy in the limit of small concentration of defects.

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