Minimal Conductivity in Bilayer Graphene József Cserti Eötvös University Department of Physics of Complex Systems International School, MCRTN’06, Keszthely, Hungary, Aug. 27- Sept. 1, J. Cs.: cond-mat/
Near zeros concentrations the longitudinal conductivity is of the order of Independent of temperature and magnetic field Minimal Conductivity in Bilayer Graphene K. S. Novoselov, E. McCann, S. V. Morozov, V. I. Fal'ko, M. I. Katsnelson, U. Zeitler, D. Jiang, F. Schedin, A. K. Geim, Nature Physics 2, 177 (2006)
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M. Koshino and T. Ando, cond-mat/ M. I. Katsnelson, cond-mat/ Theoretical results for bilayer graphene strong-disorder regime weak-disorder regime
E. McCann and V. I. Fal'ko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, (2006) Hamiltonian for bilayer graphene J=1 single layer J=2 bilayer graphene Equivalent form: Pseudo spin, Pauli matrices
Plane wave solution: Eigenvalues: Green’s function: Dirac cone 2 by 2 matrix
Kubo formula conductivity tensor: correlation function: where Fermi function: A.Bernevig, PRB 71, (2005) (derived for spintronic systems)
Result per valley per spin
where Equivalent form: A. W. W. Ludwig, M. P. A. Fisher, R. Shankar, and G. Grinstein, PRB 50, 7526 (1994) Second method
Result per valley per spin
Including the two valleys and the electron spin (factor of 4) Kubo formula Second method The two definitions yield two different results for the longitudinal conductivity of perfect graphenes But numerically they are close to each other
The conductivity proportional with number of layers (J) Single layer graphene (J=1): Our result using the 2 nd method agrees with many earlier predictions Our result for bilayer is close to the experimental one Our result agrees with M. Koshino and T. Ando (cond-mat/ ) result derived for the case of strong disorder The two methods give two different results for the longitudinal conductivity !?! The minimal conductivity in graphene systems still remains a theoretical challenge in the future Conclusions