Multifractal conductance fluctuations in high-mobility graphene in the Integer Quantum Hall regime

Abstract

We present the first experimental evidence for the multifractality of a transport property at a topological phase transition. In particular, we show that conductance fluctuations display multifractality at the integer-quantum-Hall $\nu=1 \longleftrightarrow \nu=2$ plateau-to-plateau transition in a high-mobility mesoscopic graphene device. We establish that to observe this multifractality, it is crucial to work with very high-mobility devices with a well-defined critical point. This multifractality gets rapidly suppressed as the chemical potential moves away from these critical points. Our combination of multifractal analysis with state-of-the-art transport measurements at a topological phase transition provides a novel method for probing such phase transitions in mesoscopic devices.