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Hall viscosity and electromagnetic response of electrons in graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-09-19 v2

Abstract

We derive an analytic expression for the geometric Hall viscosity of non-interacting electrons in a single graphene layer in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We show that a recently-derived formula in [C. Hoyos and D. T. Son, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 108}, 066805 (2012)], which connects the coefficient of q2q^2 in the wave vector expansion of the Hall conductivity σxy(q)\sigma_{xy}(q) of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) to the Hall viscosity and the orbital diamagnetic susceptibility of that system, continues to hold for graphene -- in spite of the lack of Galilean invariance -- with a suitable definition of the effective mass. We also show that, for a sufficiently large number of occupied Landau levels in the positive energy sector, the Hall conductivity of electrons in graphene reduces to that of a Galilean-invariant 2DEG with an effective mass given by kF/vF\hbar k_F/v_F (cyclotron mass). Even in the most demanding case, i.e. when the chemical potential falls between the zero-th and the first Landau level, the cyclotron mass formula gives results accurate to better than 1%\%. The connection between the Hall conductivity and the viscosity provides a possible avenue to measure the Hall viscosity in graphene.

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@article{arxiv.1605.02782,
  title  = {Hall viscosity and electromagnetic response of electrons in graphene},
  author = {Mohammad Sherafati and Alessandro Principi and Giovanni Vignale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.02782},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages including one Appendix, one figure. As main modifications, in this version the result for the Hall viscosity and Hall conductivity of graphene reflect the expected electron-hole symmetry and a detailed discussion section has been added to compare our results with those obtained earlier in the literature