Supersymmetry and Correlated Electrons in Graphene Quantum Hall Effect
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-12-15 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We present a supersymmetric description of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene. The noninteracting system is supersymmetric separately at the so-called K and K' points of the Brillouin zone corners. Its essential consequence is that the energy levels and the Landau levels are different objects in graphene QHE. Each energy level has a four-fold degeneracy within the noninteracting theory. With the Coulomb interaction included, an excitonic gap opens in the zero-energy state, while each nonzero energy level splits into two levels since up-spin and down-spin electrons come from different Landau levels. We argue the emergence of the plateaux at for small magnetic field and at , , for large with natural numbers.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609612,
title = {Supersymmetry and Correlated Electrons in Graphene Quantum Hall Effect},
author = {Motohiko Ezawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609612},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures