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Scaling approach to tight-binding transport in realistic graphene devices: the case of transverse magnetic focusing

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Article number115441
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>30/09/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review B
Issue number11
Volume94
Number of pages11
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Ultraclean graphene sheets encapsulated between hexagonal boron nitride crystals host two-dimensional electron systems in which low-temperature transport is solely limited by the sample size. We revisit the theoretical problem of carrying out microscopic calculations of nonlocal ballistic transport in such micron-scale devices. By employing the Landauer-Büttiker scattering theory, we propose a scaling approach to tight-binding nonlocal transport in realistic graphene devices. We test our numerical method against experimental data on transverse magnetic focusing (TMF), a textbook example of nonlocal ballistic transport in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. This comparison enables a clear physical interpretation of all the observed features of the TMF signal, including its oscillating sign.

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