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Chiral Decomposition in the Electronic Structure of Graphene Multilayers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2008-04-11 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of arbitrarily stacked graphene multilayers with nearest-neighbor interlayer tunneling consists of chiral pseudospin doublets. Although the number of doublets in an NN-layer system depends on the stacking sequence, the pseudospin chirality sum is always NN. NN-layer stacks have NN distinct Landau levels at E=0 for each spin and valley, and quantized Hall conductivity σxy=±(4e2/h)(N/2+n)\sigma_{xy} = \pm(4 e^2/h)(N/2+n) where nn is a non-negative integer.

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@article{arxiv.0711.4333,
  title  = {Chiral Decomposition in the Electronic Structure of Graphene Multilayers},
  author = {Hongki Min and A. H. MacDonald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4333},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures; QHE eq corrected; added figure 4 and updated discussion

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