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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076602 (2007) [4 pages]

Quantum Transport of Massless Dirac Fermions

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Kentaro Nomura and A. H. MacDonald
Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas 78712-1081, USA

Received 22 June 2006; published 14 February 2007

Motivated by recent graphene transport experiments, we undertake a numerical study of the conductivity of disordered two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions. Our results reveal distinct differences between the cases of short-range and Coulomb randomly distributed scatterers. We speculate that this behavior is related to the Boltzmann transport theory prediction of dirty-limit behavior for Coulomb scatterers.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.076602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.076602
PACS:
72.10.−d, 73.21.−b, 73.43.−f, 73.50.Fq