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arxiv: cond-mat/0509709 · v2 · submitted 2005-09-27 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall

Edge and Surface States in the Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene

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We study the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling (graphene) in the presence of disorder and electron-electron interactions. We show that the interactions between the delocalized chiral edge states (generated by the magnetic field) and Anderson-localized surface states (created by the presence of zig-zag edges) lead to edge reconstruction. As a consequence, the point contact tunneling on a graphene edge has a non-universal tunneling exponent, and the Hall conductivity is not perfectly quantized in units of $e^2/h$. We argue that the magneto-transport properties of graphene depend strongly on the strength of electron-electron interactions, the amount of disorder, and the details of the edges.

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