Quasiparticle Transformation During a Metal-Insulator Transition in Graphene

Aaron Bostwick, Jessica L. McChesney, Konstantin Emtsev, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, Stephan D. Kevan, Eli Rotenberg

Published 2009-04-15Version 1

Here we show, with simultaneous transport and photoemission measurements, that the graphene terminated SiC(0001) surface undergoes a metal-insulator transition (MIT) upon dosingwith small amounts of atomic hydrogen. We find the room temperature resistance increases by about 4 orders of magnitude, a transition accompanied by anomalies in the momentum-resolved spectral function including a non-Fermi Liquid behaviour and a breakdown of the quasiparticle picture. These effects are discussed in terms of a possible transition to a strongly (Anderson) localized ground state.