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Quantum holography in a graphene flake with an irregular boundary

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-07-25 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Electrons in clean macroscopic samples of graphene exhibit an astonishing variety of quantum phases when strong perpendicular magnetic field is applied. These include integer and fractional quantum Hall states as well as symmetry broken phases and quantum Hall ferromagnetism. Here we show that mesoscopic graphene flakes in the regime of strong disorder and magnetic field can exhibit another remarkable quantum phase described by holographic duality to an extremal black hole in two dimensional anti-de Sitter space. This phase of matter can be characterized as a maximally chaotic non-Fermi liquid since it is described by a complex fermion version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model known to possess these remarkable properties.

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@article{arxiv.1802.00802,
  title  = {Quantum holography in a graphene flake with an irregular boundary},
  author = {Anffany Chen and R. Ilan and F. de Juan and D. I. Pikulin and M. Franz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00802},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages main text plus 4 pages supplement; V2 published version

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