Comments on the Chern-Simons photon term in the QED description of graphene
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-09-24 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We revisit the Coleman-Hill theorem in the context of reduced planar QED. Using the global U(1) Ward identity for this non-local but still gauge invariant theory, we can confirm that the topological piece of the photon self-energy at zero momentum does not receive further quantum corrections apart from the potential one-loop contribution, even when considering the Lorentz non-invariant case due to the Fermi velocity . This is of relevance to probe possible time parity odd dynamics in a planar sheet of graphene which has an effective description in terms of -dimensional planar reduced QED.
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@article{arxiv.1801.08853,
title = {Comments on the Chern-Simons photon term in the QED description of graphene},
author = {D. Dudal and A. J. Mizher and P. Pais},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08853},
year = {2018}
}
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