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Magnetophonon spectroscopy of Dirac fermion scattering by transverse and longitudinal acoustic phonons in graphene

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posted on 2019-10-15, 08:45 authored by Mark GreenawayMark Greenaway, R Krishna Kumar, P Kumaravadivel, A.K. Geim, L Eaves
Recently observed magnetophonon resonances in the magnetoresistance of graphene are investigated using the Kubo formalism. This analysis provides a quantitative fit to the magnetophonon resonances over a wide range of carrier densities. It demonstrates the predominance of carrier scattering by low-energy transverse acoustic (TA) mode phonons: the magnetophonon resonance amplitude is significantly stronger for the TA modes than for the longitudinal acoustic (LA) modes. We demonstrate that the LA and TA phonon speeds and the electron-phonon coupling strengths determined from the magnetophonon resonance measurements also provide an excellent fit to the measured dependence of the resistivity at zero magnetic field over a temperature range of 4–150 K. A semiclassical description of magnetophonon resonance in graphene is shown to provide a simple physical explanation for the dependence of the magneto-oscillation period on carrier density. The correspondence between the quantum calculation and the semiclassical model is discussed.

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC),

Graphene Flagship

the Royal Society

Lloyd’s Register Foundation

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  • Science

Department

  • Physics

Published in

Physical Review B

Volume

100

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© the American Physical Society

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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review B and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.155120

Publication date

2019-10-10

Copyright date

2019

ISSN

2469-9950

eISSN

2469-9969

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Mark Greenaway

Article number

155120

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