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Induced Current and Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-08-03 v3 Materials Science High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The effect of vacuum polarization in the field of an infinitesimally thin solenoid at distances much larger than the radius of solenoid is investigated. The induced charge density and induced current are calculated. Though the induced charge density turned out to be zero, the induced current is finite periodical function of the magnetic flux Φ\Phi. The expression for this function is found exactly in a value of the flux. The induced current is equal to zero at the integer values of Φ/Φ0\Phi/\Phi_0 as well as at half-integer values of this ratio, where Φ0=2πc/e\Phi_0=2\pi\hbar c/e is the elementary magnetic flux. The latter is a consequence of the Furry theorem and periodicity of the induced current with respect to magnetic flux. As an example we consider the graphene in the field of solenoid perpendicular to the plane of a sample.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2046,
  title  = {Induced Current and Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Graphene},
  author = {R. Jackiw and A. I. Milstein and S. -Y. Pi and I. S. Terekhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2046},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

3 pages, 1 figure, version accepted to Phys. Rev. B

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