Strong suppression of weak localization in graphene

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jul 7;97(1):016801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.016801. Epub 2006 Jul 5.

Abstract

Low-field magnetoresistance is ubiquitous in low-dimensional metallic systems with high resistivity and well understood as arising due to quantum interference on self-intersecting diffusive trajectories. We have found that in graphene this weak-localization magnetoresistance is strongly suppressed and, in some cases, completely absent. The unexpected observation is attributed to mesoscopic corrugations of graphene sheets which can cause a dephasing effect similar to that of a random magnetic field.