Landau-level broadening due to electron-impurity interaction in graphene in strong magnetic fields

C. H. Yang, F. M. Peeters, and W. Xu
Phys. Rev. B 82, 075401 – Published 3 August 2010

Abstract

The effect of electron-impurity and electron-electron interactions on the energy spectrum of electrons moving in graphene is investigated in the presence of a high magnetic field. We find that the width of the broadened Landau levels exhibits an approximate 1/B dependence near half filling for charged impurity scattering. The Landau-level width, the density of states, and the Fermi energy exhibit an oscillatory behavior as a function of magnetic field. Comparison with experiment shows that scattering with charged impurities cannot be the main scattering mechanism that determines the width of the Landau levels.

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  • Received 10 March 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.075401

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

C. H. Yang1,2, F. M. Peeters1,*, and W. Xu3,4

  • 1Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
  • 2Faculty of Maths and Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • 3Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
  • 4Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming 610015, China

  • *francois.peeters@ua.ac.be

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Vol. 82, Iss. 7 — 15 August 2010

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