Chiral Gauge Theory for Graphene
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2009-11-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We construct a chiral gauge theory to describe fractionalization of fermions in graphene. Thereby we extend a recently proposed model, which relies on vortex formation. Our chiral gauge fields provide dynamics for the vortices and also couple to the fermions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701760,
title = {Chiral Gauge Theory for Graphene},
author = {R. Jackiw and S. -Y. Pi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701760},
year = {2009}
}
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