Disorder-Induced Magnetoresistance in a Two-Dimensional Electron System

作者:Ping Jinglei*; Yudhistira Indra; Ramakrishnan Navneeth; Cho Sungjae; Adam Shaffique; Fuhrer Michael S
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2014, 113(4): 047206.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.047206

摘要

We predict and demonstrate that a disorder-induced carrier density inhomogeneity causes magnetoresistance (MR) in a two-dimensional electron system. Our experiments on graphene show a quadratic MR persisting far from the charge neutrality point. Effective medium calculations show that for charged impurity disorder, the low-field MR is a universal function of the ratio of carrier density to fluctuations in carrier density, a power law when this ratio is large, in excellent agreement with experiment. The MR is generic and should occur in other materials with large carrier density inhomogeneity.

  • 出版日期2014-7-25