Conductivity of suspended graphene at the Dirac point

We study transport properties of clean suspended graphene at the Dirac point. In the absence of the electron-electron interaction, the main contribution to resistivity comes from interaction with flexural (out-of-plane deformation) phonons. We find that the phonon-limited conductivity scales with th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics Condensed matter and materials physics, 2012-10, Vol.86 (16), Article 165413
Hauptverfasser: Gornyi, I. V., Kachorovskii, V. Yu, Mirlin, A. D.
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Zusammenfassung:We study transport properties of clean suspended graphene at the Dirac point. In the absence of the electron-electron interaction, the main contribution to resistivity comes from interaction with flexural (out-of-plane deformation) phonons. We find that the phonon-limited conductivity scales with the temperature as T super(-[eta]) where [eta] is the critical exponent (equal approximately 0.7 to according to numerical studies) describing renormalization of the flexural phonon correlation functions due to anharmonic coupling with the in-plane phonons. The electron-electron interaction induces an additional scattering mechanism and also affects the electron-phonon scattering by screening the deformation potential. We demonstrate that the combined effect of both interactions results in a conductivity that can be expressed as a dimensionless function of two temperature-dependent dimensionless constants, G[T] and G sub(e) [T], which characterize the strength of electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions, respectively. We also discuss the behavior of conductivity away from the Dirac point as well as the role of the impurity potential and compare our predictions with available experimental data.
ISSN:1098-0121
1550-235X
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.165413