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# Charge transport in graphene-based mesoscopic realizations of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models.

Oguzhan Can, Emilian M. Nica, Marcel Franz

We consider a recent proposal for a physical realization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the zeroth-Landau-level sector of an irregularly-shaped graphene flake. We study in detail charge transport signatures of the unique non-Fermi liquid state of such a quantum dot coupled to non-interacting leads. The properties of this setup depend essentially on the ratio $p$ between the number of transverse modes in the lead $M$ and the number of the fermion degrees of freedom $N$ on the SYK dot. This ratio can be tuned via the magnetic field applied to the dot. Our proposed setup gives access to the non-trivial conformal-invariant regime associated with the SYK model as well as a more conventional Fermi-liquid regime via tuning the field. The dimensionless linear response conductance acquires distinct $\sqrt{p}$ and $1/\sqrt{p}$ dependencies for the two phases respectively in the low-temperature limit, with a universal jump at the transition. We find that corrections scale linearly and quadratically in either temperature or frequency on the two sides of the transition. In the weak tunneling regime we find differential conductance proportional to the inverse square root of the applied voltage bias $U$. This dependence is replaced by a conventional Ohmic behavior with constant conductance proportional to $1/\sqrt{T}$ for bias energy $eU$ smaller than temperature scale $k_BT$. We also describe the out-of-equilibrium current-bias characteristics and discuss various crossovers between the limiting behaviors mentioned above.

Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06584

DOI: arXiv:1808.06584v2

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