Universal scaling of current fluctuations in disordered graphene

Pablo San-Jose, Elsa Prada, and Dmitry S. Golubev
Phys. Rev. B 76, 195445 – Published 29 November 2007

Abstract

We analyze the full transport statistics of graphene with smooth disorder at low dopings. First, we consider the case of one-dimensional (1D) disorder for which the transmission probability distribution is given analytically in terms of the graphene-specific mean free path. All current cumulants are shown to scale with system parameters (doping, size, disorder strength, and correlation length) in an identical fashion for large enough systems. In the case of two-dimensional (2D) disorder, numerical evidence is given for the same kind of identical scaling of all current cumulants, so that the ratio of any two such cumulants is universal. Specific universal values are given for the Fano factor, which is smaller than the pseudodiffusive value of ballistic graphene (F=13) both for 1D (F0.243) and 2D (F0.295) disorders. On the other hand, conductivity in wide samples is shown to grow without saturation as L and logL with system length L in the 1D and 2D cases, respectively.

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  • Received 27 June 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.195445

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Pablo San-Jose1, Elsa Prada1, and Dmitry S. Golubev2

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik and DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany and I.E. Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, 119991 Moscow, Russia

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Vol. 76, Iss. 19 — 15 November 2007

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