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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.

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@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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