Edge and surface states in the quantum Hall effect in graphene

A. H. Castro Neto, F. Guinea, and N. M. R. Peres
Phys. Rev. B 73, 205408 – Published 10 May 2006

Abstract

We study the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling (graphene) in the presence of disorder and electron-electron interactions. We show that the interactions between the delocalized chiral edge states (generated by the magnetic field) and Anderson-localized surface states (created by the presence of zig-zag edges) lead to edge reconstruction. As a consequence, the point contact tunneling on a graphene edge has a nonuniversal tunneling exponent, and the Hall conductivity is not perfectly quantized in units of e2h. We argue that the magnetotransport properties of graphene depend strongly on the strength of electron-electron interactions, the amount of disorder, and the details of the edges.

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  • Received 30 January 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.205408

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. H. Castro Neto1, F. Guinea1,3, and N. M. R. Peres2

  • 1Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
  • 2Center of Physics and Department of Physics, Universidade do Minho, P-4710-057 Braga, Portugal
  • 3Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco E28049 Madrid, Spain

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Vol. 73, Iss. 20 — 15 May 2006

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