163 research outputs found
Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
The quantum Hall effect (QHE), one example of a quantum phenomenon that occur
on a truly macroscopic scale, has been attracting intense interest since its
discovery in 1980 and has helped elucidate many important aspects of quantum
physics. It has also led to the establishment of a new metrological standard,
the resistance quantum. Disappointingly, however, the QHE could only have been
observed at liquid-helium temperatures. Here, we show that in graphene - a
single atomic layer of carbon - the QHE can reliably be measured even at room
temperature, which is not only surprising and inspirational but also promises
QHE resistance standards becoming available to a broader community, outside a
few national institutions.Comment: Published in Science online 15 February 200
Metal-to-Insulator Crossover in the Low-Temperature Normal State of Bi_{2}Sr_{2-x}La_{x}CuO_{6+\delta}
We measure the normal-state in-plane resistivity of La-doped Bi-2201 single
crystals at low temperatures by suppressing superconductivity with 60-T pulsed
magnetic fields. With decreasing hole doping, we observe a crossover from a
metallic to insulating behavior in the low-temperature normal state. This
crossover is estimated to occur near 1/8 doping, well inside the underdoped
regime, and not at optimum doping as reported for other cuprates. The
insulating regime is marked by a logarithmic temperature dependence of the
resistivity over two decades of temperature, suggesting that a peculiar charge
localization is common to the cuprates.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Do we know what we’re saying? The roles of attention and sensory information during speech production
Cooper pair delocalization in disordered media
We discuss the effect of disorder on the coherent propagation of the bound
state of two attracting particles. It is shown that a result analogous to the
Anderson theorem for dirty superconductors is also valid for the Cooper
problem, namely, that the pair wave function is extended beyond the
single-particle localization length if the latter is large. A physical
justification is given in terms of the Thouless block-scaling picture of
localization. These arguments are supplemented by numerical simulations. With
increasing disorder we find a transition from a regime in which the interaction
delocalizes the pair to a regime in which the interaction enhances
localization.Comment: 5 pages, RevTex with 2 figures include
Charge and spin inhomogeneity as a key to the physics of the high Tc cuprates
We present a coherent scenario for the physics of cuprate superconductors,
which is based on a charge-driven inhomogeneity, i.e. the ``stripe phase''. We
show that spin and charge critical fluctuations near the stripe instability of
strongly correlated electron systems provide an effective interaction between
the quasiparticles, which is strongly momentum, frequency, temperature and
doping dependent. This accounts for the various phenomena occurring in the
overdoped, optimally and underdoped regimes both for the normal and the
superconductive phase.Comment: 6 pages, 1 enclosed figure, proceedings of LT2
Magnetospectroscopy of symmetric and anti-symmetric states in double quantum wells
The experimental results obtained for the magneto-transport in the
InGaAs/InAlAs double quantum wells (DQW) structures of two different shapes of
wells are reported. The beating-effect occurred in the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH)
oscillations was observed for both types of the structures at low temperatures
in the parallel transport when magnetic field was perpendicular to the layers.
An approach to the calculation of the Landau levels energies for DQW structures
was developed and then applied to the analysis and interpretation of the
experimental data related to the beating-effect. We also argue that in order to
account for the observed magneto-transport phenomena (SdH and Integer Quantum
Hall effect), one should introduce two different quasi-Fermi levels
characterizing two electron sub-systems regarding symmetry properties of their
states, symmetric and anti-symmetric ones which are not mixed by
electron-electron interaction.Comment: 20 pages, 20 figure
Only Fermi-Liquids are Metals
Any singular deviation from Landau Fermi-liquid theory appears to lead, for
arbitrarily small concentration of impurities coupling to a non-conserved
quantity, to a vanishing density of states at the chemical potential and
infinite resistivity as temperature approaches zero. Applications to
copper-oxide metals including the temperature dependence of the anisotropy in
resistivity, and to other cases of non Fermi-liquids are discussed.Comment: 11 pages,revtex, 1 Postscript figur
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