Equipartition of current in metallic armchair nanoribbon of graphene-based device.

We numerically investigate the mesoscopic electronic transport properties of Bernal-stacked bilayer/trilayer graphene connected with four monolayer graphene terminals. In armchair-terminated metallic bilayer graphene, we show that the current from one incoming terminal can be equally partitioned into other three outgoing terminals near the charge-neutrality point, and the conductance periodically fluctuates, which is independent of the ribbon width but influenced by the interlayer hopping energy. This finding can be clearly understood by using the wave function matching method, in which a quantitative relationship between the periodicity, Fermi energy, and interlayer hopping energy can be reached. Interestingly, for the trilayer case, when the Fermi energy is located around the charge-neutrality point, the fractional quantized conductance 1/(4e²h) can be achieved when system exceeds a critical length. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]