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Quantum Goos-Hanchen Effect in Graphene

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 102, Issue 14, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.146804

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  1. Dutch Science Foundation NWO/FOM

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The Goos-Hanchen (GH) effect is an interference effect on total internal reflection at an interface, resulting in a shift sigma of the reflected beam along the interface. We show that the GH effect at a p-n interface in graphene depends on the pseudospin (sublattice) degree of freedom of the massless Dirac fermions, and find a sign change of sigma at angle of incidence alpha(*)=arcsin sin alpha(c) determined by the critical angle alpha(c) for total reflection. In an n-doped channel with p-doped boundaries the GH effect doubles the degeneracy of the lowest propagating mode, introducing a twofold degeneracy on top of the usual spin and valley degeneracies. This can be observed as a stepwise increase by 8e(2)/h of the conductance with increasing channel width.

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