Screening charged impurities and lifting the orbital degeneracy in graphene by populating landau levels

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Luican Mayer, Adina ^a   Kharitonov, Maxim ^a   Li, Guohong ^a   Lu, Chih Pin ^a   Skachko, Ivan ^a   Gonçalves, Alem Mar B ^a   Watanabe, K ^b   Taniguchi, T ^b   Andrei, Eva Y ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

68.37.Ef; 71.70.Di; 73.22.Pr; 73.43. f

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EID: 84894490721     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.036804     Document Type: Article

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