Conductance quantization in graphene nanoconstrictions with mesoscopically smooth but atomically stepped boundaries

Details Conductance quantization in graphene nanoconstrictions with mesoscopically smooth but atomically stepped boundaries Conductance quantization in graphene nanoconstrictions with mesoscopically smooth but atomically stepped boundaries

2012-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/1203.2025v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

We present the results of million atom electronic quantum transport calculations for graphene nanoconstrictions with edges that are smooth apart from atomic scale steps. We find conductances quantized in integer multiples of 2e2/h and a plateau at ~0.5*2e2/h as in recent experiments [Tombros et al., Nature Physics 7, 697 (2011)]. We demonstrate that, surprisingly, conductances quantized in integer multiples of 2e2/h occur even for strongly non-adiabatic electron backscattering at the stepped edges that lowers the conductance by one or more conductance quanta below the adiabatic value. We also show that conductance plateaus near 0.5*2e2/h can occur as a result of electron backscattering at stepped edges even in the absence of electron-electron interactions.

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