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TY - JOUR
T1 - Out-of-equilibrium criticalities in graphene superlattices
AU - Berdyugin, Alexey I.
AU - Xin, Na
AU - Gao, Haoyang
AU - Slizovskiy, Sergey
AU - Dong, Zhiyu
AU - Bhattacharjee, Shubhadeep
AU - Kumaravadivel, P.
AU - Xu, Shuigang
AU - Ponomarenko, L. A.
AU - Holwill, Matthew
AU - Bandurin, D. A.
AU - Kim, Minsoo
AU - Cao, Yang
AU - Greenaway, M. T.
AU - Novoselov, K. S.
AU - Grigorieva, I. V.
AU - Watanabe, K.
AU - Taniguchi, T.
AU - Fal’ko, V. I.
AU - Levitov, L. S.
AU - Kumar, Roshan Krishna
AU - Geim, A. K.
N1 - This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science on 375, 28/01/2022, DOI:10.1126/science.abi8627
PY - 2022/1/28
Y1 - 2022/1/28
N2 - In thermodynamic equilibrium, current in metallic systems is carried by electronic states near the Fermi energy, whereas the filled bands underneath contribute little to conduction. Here, we describe a very different regime in which carrier distribution in graphene and its superlattices is shifted so far from equilibrium that the filled bands start playing an essential role, leading to a critical-current behavior. The criticalities develop upon the velocity of electron flow reaching the Fermi velocity. Key signatures of the out-of-equilibrium state are current-voltage characteristics that resemble those of superconductors, sharp peaks in differential resistance, sign reversal of the Hall effect, and a marked anomaly caused by the Schwinger-like production of hot electron-hole plasma. The observed behavior is expected to be common to all graphene-based superlattices.
AB - In thermodynamic equilibrium, current in metallic systems is carried by electronic states near the Fermi energy, whereas the filled bands underneath contribute little to conduction. Here, we describe a very different regime in which carrier distribution in graphene and its superlattices is shifted so far from equilibrium that the filled bands start playing an essential role, leading to a critical-current behavior. The criticalities develop upon the velocity of electron flow reaching the Fermi velocity. Key signatures of the out-of-equilibrium state are current-voltage characteristics that resemble those of superconductors, sharp peaks in differential resistance, sign reversal of the Hall effect, and a marked anomaly caused by the Schwinger-like production of hot electron-hole plasma. The observed behavior is expected to be common to all graphene-based superlattices.
KW - Multidisciplinary
U2 - 10.1126/science.abi8627
DO - 10.1126/science.abi8627
M3 - Journal article
VL - 375
SP - 430
EP - 433
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6579
ER -