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We start the paper with a brief presentation of the main characteristics of graphene, and of the Dirac theory of massless fermions in 2+1 dimensions obtained as the associated low-momentum effective theory, in the absence of external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Beneventano , E. M. Santangelo

We report on the unusual nature of nu=0 state in the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene and show that electron transport in this regime is dominated by counter-propagating edge states. Such states, intrinsic to massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry A. Abanin , Kostya S. Novoselov , Uli Zeitler , Patrick A. Lee , Andre K. Geim , Leonid S. Levitov

Quantum Hall effect in 1,2-layer graphene is analyzed. The transverse and longitudinal resistivity are found to be universal functions of the filling factor and temperature. At fixed magnetic field mode the magneto-transport problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 M. V. Cheremisin

We study the Euclidean effective action per unit area and the charge density for a Dirac field in a two--dimensional spatial region, in the presence of a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the 2D--plane, at finite temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Beneventano , Paola Giacconi , E. M. Santangelo , Roberto Soldati

This short theoretical review deals with some essential ingredients for the understanding of the quantum Hall effect in graphene in comparison with the effect in conventional two-dimensional electron systems with a parabolic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig

Unlike regular electron spin, the pseudospin degeneracy of Fermi points in graphene does not couple directly to magnetic field. Therefore, graphene provides a natural vehicle to observe the integral and fractional quantum Hall physics in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Csaba Toke , Paul E. Lammert , Jainendra K. Jain , Vincent H. Crespi

The electromagnetic response of graphene in a magnetic field is studied, with particular emphasis on the quantum features of its ground state (vacuum). The graphene vacuum, unlike in conventional quantum Hall systems, is a dielectric medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shizuya

The recent Quantum Hall experiments in graphene have confirmed the theoretically well-understood picture of the quantum Hall (QH) conductance in fermion systems with continuum Dirac spectrum. In this paper we take into account the lattice,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Han-Dong Chen , Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The quantum Hall effect in graphene is regarded to be involving half-integer topological numbers associated with the massless Dirac particle, this is usually not apparent due to the doubling of the Dirac cones. Here we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 H Watanabe , Y Hatsugai , H Aoki

We study 1-loop effects for massless Dirac fields in two spatial dimensions, coupled to homogeneous electromagnetic backgrounds, both at zero and at finite temperature and density. In the case of a purely magnetic field, we analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 C. G. Beneventano , Paola Giacconi , E. M. Santangelo , Roberto Soldati

The quantum Hall effect is widely used for the investigation of fundamental phenomena, ranging from topological phases to composite fermions. In particular, the discovery of a room temperature resistance quantum in graphene is significant…

While the quantum Hall effect in graphene has been regarded as a realization of the anomaly associated with the massless Dirac particle carrying half the usual topological integer, this is hidden due to the doubling of the Dirac cones. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Haruki Watanabe , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

The effect of strong long-range disorder on the quantization of the Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ in graphene is studied numerically. It is shown that increasing Landau-level mixing progressively destroys all plateaus in $\sigma_{xy}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-30 Kentaro Nomura , Shinsei Ryu , Mikito Koshino , Christopher Mudry , Akira Furusaki

We review the basic aspects of electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite) exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. One of its most salient features is the relativistic quantum Hall effect the observation of which has been the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-24 M. O. Goerbig

We study the quantum Hall effect in a monolayer graphene by using an approach based on thermodynamical properties. This can be done by considering a system of Dirac particles in an electromagnetic field and taking into account of the edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Ahmed Jellal

In graphene, which is an atomic layer of crystalline carbon, two of the distinguishing properties of the material are the charge carriers two-dimensional and relativistic character. The first experimental evidence of the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Fabian Duerr , Adina Luican , Eva Y. Andrei

Recent successes in manufacturing of atomically thin graphite samples (graphene) have stimulated intense experimental and theoretical activity. The key feature of graphene is the massless Dirac type of low-energy electron excitations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Monolayer graphite films, or graphene, have quasiparticle excitations that can be described by 2+1 dimensional Dirac theory. We demonstrate that this produces an unconventional form of the quantized Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy} = - (2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov

Under high perpendicular magnetic field and at low temperatures, graphene develops an insulating state at the charge neutrality point. This state, dubbed $\nu=0$, is due to the interplay between electronic interactions and the four-fold…

The surface states of topological insulators, which behave as charged massless Dirac fermions, are studied in the presence of a quantizing uniform magnetic field. Using the method of D.H. Lee[1], analytical formula satisfied by the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Oskar Vafek
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