Nonergodicity and microscopic symmetry breaking of the conductance fluctuations in disordered mesoscopic graphene

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Bohra, G ^a   Somphonsane, R ^b   Aoki, N ^c   Ochiai, Y ^c   Akis, R ^d   Ferry, D K ^c,d   Bird, J P ^a,c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Arizona State University   (United States)

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EID: 84867492808     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.161405     Document Type: Article

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