Electronic heat capacity in disordered graphene systems

Publication date: Available online 27 July 2018Source: Physics Letters AAuthor(s): I. Grosu, T.-L. BiterAbstractWe analyzed the electronic heat capacity of graphene systems in the presence of disorder. We consider the case of strong scatterers, working in the unitary limit. The temperature dependence of the electronic heat capacity is analyzed. Close to the clean limit we obtained the quadratic temperature dependence, corrected with a temperature and disorder dependent factor which slightly enhance the heat capacity. At very low temperatures, and in the presence of disorder, we obtained a linear temperature dependence of the electronic heat capacity. We also analyzed the temperature dependence of the electronic heat capacity in the case of extrinsic graphene.

Source: Physics Letters A - July 28, 2018 Category: Physics Source Type: research