Non-ohmic to ohmic crossover in the breakdown of the quantum Hall states in graphene under broadband excitations

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Main Authors: Röper, Torsten, Zhang, Aifei, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Maillet, Olivier, Parmentier, François D., Bocquillon, Erwann
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author Röper, Torsten
Zhang, Aifei
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Maillet, Olivier
Parmentier, François D.
Bocquillon, Erwann
author_facet Röper, Torsten
Zhang, Aifei
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Maillet, Olivier
Parmentier, François D.
Bocquillon, Erwann
contents Graphene, through the coexistence of large cyclotron gaps and small spin and valley gaps, offers the possibility to study the breakdown of the quantum Hall effect across a wide range of energy scales. In this work, we investigate the breakdown of the QHE in high-mobility graphene Corbino devices under broadband excitation ranging from DC up to 10 GHz. We find that the conductance is consistently described by variable range hopping (VRH) and extract the hopping energies from both temperature and field-driven measurements. Using VRH thermometry, we are able to distinguish between a cold and hot electron regime, which are dominated by non-ohmic VRH and Joule heating, respectively. Our results demonstrate that breakdown in the quantum Hall regime of graphene is governed by a crossover from non-ohmic, field-driven VRH to ohmic, Joule-heating-dominated transport.
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spellingShingle Non-ohmic to ohmic crossover in the breakdown of the quantum Hall states in graphene under broadband excitations
Röper, Torsten
Zhang, Aifei
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Maillet, Olivier
Parmentier, François D.
Bocquillon, Erwann
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Graphene, through the coexistence of large cyclotron gaps and small spin and valley gaps, offers the possibility to study the breakdown of the quantum Hall effect across a wide range of energy scales. In this work, we investigate the breakdown of the QHE in high-mobility graphene Corbino devices under broadband excitation ranging from DC up to 10 GHz. We find that the conductance is consistently described by variable range hopping (VRH) and extract the hopping energies from both temperature and field-driven measurements. Using VRH thermometry, we are able to distinguish between a cold and hot electron regime, which are dominated by non-ohmic VRH and Joule heating, respectively. Our results demonstrate that breakdown in the quantum Hall regime of graphene is governed by a crossover from non-ohmic, field-driven VRH to ohmic, Joule-heating-dominated transport.
title Non-ohmic to ohmic crossover in the breakdown of the quantum Hall states in graphene under broadband excitations
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19978