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Electron with arbitrary pseudo spins in multilayer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-04-09 v3

Abstract

Using the low-energy effective Hamiltonian of the ABC-stacked multilayer graphene, pseudo spin coupling to real orbital angular momentum of electron in multilayer graphene is investigated. We show that electron wave function in N-layer graphene mimics behavior of particle with spin of N/2. It is said that for N greater than 1 the low-energy effective Hamiltonian for ABC-stacked graphene is no longer used to describe pseudo spin 1/2-particle wave function. The wave function of electron in multilayer graphene may behave like fermionic (or bosonic) particle when N is odd (or even). This work proposes a theory of graphene as a host material of electron with arbitrary pseudo spins, tunable by changing number of graphene layers.

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@article{arxiv.1409.1426,
  title  = {Electron with arbitrary pseudo spins in multilayer graphene},
  author = {Worasak Prarokijjak and Bumned Soodchomshom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1426},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages; 1 Figure; eq 5 was corrected

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