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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

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

The physics of graphene is acting as a bridge between quantum field theory and condensed matter physics due to the special quality of the graphene quasiparticles behaving as massless two dimensional Dirac fermions. Moreover, the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea

We analyze a gap equation for the propagator of Dirac quasiparticles and conclude that in graphene in a magnetic field, the order parameters connected with the quantum Hall ferromagnetism dynamics and those connected with the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky

We consider models for the plateau transition in the integer quantum Hall effect. Starting from the network model, we construct a mapping to the Dirac Hamiltonian in two dimensions. In the general case, the Dirac Hamiltonian has randomness…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-05 C. -M. Ho , J. T. Chalker

We study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene based on the current injection model. In our model, the presence of disorder, the edge-state picture, extended states and localized states, which are believed to be indispensable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Tobias Kramer , Christoph Kreisbeck , Viktor Krueckl , Eric J Heller , Robert E Parrott , Chi-Te Liang

A general discussion of graphene in external electromagnetic field is provided. In general, the formulation is not Lorentz invariant because of Zeeman energy. But it can be restored approxiamtely in the case of strong magnetic field, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Sze-Shiang feng , Mogus Mochena

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

We model the low energy dynamics of graphene in the continuum in terms of a version of Reduced Quantum Electrodynamics restricting fermions to a (2+1)-dimensional brane, whilst photons remain within the (3+1)-dimensional bulk. For charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Saúl Hernández-Ortiz , David Valenzuela , Alfredo Raya , Saúl Sánchez-Madrigal

Mechanical deformations of graphene induce a term in the Dirac Hamiltonian which is reminiscent of an electromagnetic vector potential. Strain gradients along particular lattice directions induce local pseudomagnetic fields and substantial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Eran Sela , Yakov Bloch , Felix von Oppen , Moshe Ben Shalom

We studied theoretically the effect of a low concentration of adsorbed polar molecules on the optical conductivity of graphene, within the Kubo linear response approximation. Our analysis is based on a continuum model approximation that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Horacio Falomir , Marcelo Loewe , Enrique Muñoz

We consider polarizable sheets, which recently received some attention, especially in context of the dispersion interaction of thin sheets like graphene. These sheets are modeled by a collection of delta function potentials and resemble…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 M. Bordag , I. G. Pirozhenko

1-loop quantum corrections are shown to induce large effects on the refraction index n inside a graphene strip in the presence of an external magnetic field B orthogonal to it. To this purpose, we use the tools of Quantum Field Theory to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-09 Olivier Coquand , Bruno Machet

We construct canonical quantum fields which propagate on a star graph modeling a quantum wire. The construction uses a deformation of the algebra of canonical commutation relations, encoding the interaction in the vertex of the graph. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Bellazzini , M. Mintchev

We develop a theory for the pseudorelativistic fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene, which is based on a multicomponent abelian Chern-Simons theory in the fermionic functional integral approach. Calculations are performed in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Christian Fräßdorf

A number of physical processes occurring in a flat one-dimensional graphene structure under the action of strong time-dependent electric fields are considered. It is assumed that the Dirac model can be applied to the graphene as a subsystem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Sergey Gavrilov , Dmitry Gitman , Vadim Dmitriev , Anatolii Panferov , Stanislav Smolyansky

The observed quantization of the Hall conductivity in graphene at high magnetic fields is explained as being due to the dynamically generated spatial modulation of either the electron spin or the density, as decided by the details of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor F. Herbut

We theoretically study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene with an ac electric field. Based on the tight-binding model, the structure of the half-integer Hall plateaus at $\sigma_{xy} = \pm(n + 1/2)4e^2/h$ ($n$ is an integer) gets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Kai-He Ding , Lih-King Lim , Gang Su , Zheng-Yu Weng

We derive the polarization tensor of graphene at nonzero temperature in (2+1)-dimensional space-time. The obtained tensor coincides with the previously known one at all Matsubara frequencies, but, in contrast to it, admits analytic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 M. Bordag , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

There is evidence for existence of massless Dirac quasi-particles in graphene, which satisfy Dirac equation in (1+2) dimensions near the so called Dirac points which lie at the corners at the graphene's brilluoin zone. We revisit the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Riazuddin