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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 ν=±(4n2)\nu =\pm (4n-2) for small magnetic field BB and at ν=0\nu =0, ±1\pm 1, ±2n\pm 2n for large BB with nn 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