Direct observation of valley-hybridization and universal symmetry of graphene with mesoscopic conductance fluctuations

Atindra Nath Pal, Vidya Kochat, Arindam Ghosh

Published 2012-06-18Version 1

In graphene, the valleys represent spin-like quantities and can act as a physical resource in valley-based electronics to novel quantum computation schemes. Here we demonstrate a direct route to tune and read the valley quantum states of disordered graphene by measuring the mesoscopic conductance fluctuations. We show that the conductance fluctuations in graphene at low temperatures are reduced by a factor of four when valley triplet states are gapped in the presence of short range potential scatterers at high carrier densities. We also show that this implies a gate tunable universal symmetry class which outlines a fundamental feature arising from graphene's unique crystal structure.