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Group theoretical methods to construct the graphene

Mathematical Physics 2018-12-05 v2 math.MP

Abstract

In this paper, the tiling of the Euclidean plane with regular hexagons whose vertices are occupied by carbon atoms is called the graphene. We describe six different ways to generate the graphene by the means of group theory. There are two ways starting from the triangular lattice of Lie algebra A2A_2 and G2G_2, and one way for each of the Lie algebras B3B_3, C3C_3 and A3A_3, by projecting the weight system of their lowest representation to the hexagons of A2A_2. Colouring of the graphene is presented. Changing from one colouring to another is called phase transition. Multistep refinements of the graphene are described.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1611.02206,
  title  = {Group theoretical methods to construct the graphene},
  author = {Zofia Grabowiecka and Jiri Patera and Marzena Szajewska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.02206},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages, 7 figures

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