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Starting from the photon self-energy tensor in a magnetized medium, the 3D complete antisymmetric form of the conductivity tensor is found in the static limit of a fermion system $C$ non-invariant under fermion-antifermion exchange. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 A. Pérez Martínez , E. Rodriguez Querts , H. Pérez Rojas , R. Gaitan , S. Rodriguez Romo

The soft photon theorem in U(1) gauge theories with only massless charged particles has recently been shown to be the Ward identity of an infinite-dimensional asymptotic symmetry group. This symmetry group is comprised of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-10 Daniel Kapec , Monica Pate , Andrew Strominger

We study the realization in a model of graphene of the phenomenon whereby the tendency of gauge-field mediated interactions to break chiral symmetry spontaneously is greatly enhanced in an external magnetic field. We prove that, in the weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-09 Gordon W. Semenoff , Fei Zhou

A non-minimal photon-torsion axial coupling in the quantum electrodynamics (QED) framework is considered. The geometrical optics in Riemann-Cartan spacetime is considering and a plane wave expansion of the electromagnetic vector potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

In QED of two space dimensions, a quantum Hall effect occurs in the absence of any magnetic field. We give a simple and transparent explanation. In solid state physics, the Hall conductivity for non-degenerate ground state is expected to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Marianne Leitner

Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

An effective quantum field theory description of graphene in the ultra-relativistic regime is given by reduced QED aka. pseudo QED aka. mixed-dimensional QED. It has been speculated in the literature that reduced QED constitutes an example…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 D. Dudal , A. J. Mizher , P. Pais

A deep connection between the Hall conductance in realistic situation and a topological invariant is pointed out based on von-Neumann lattice representation in which Landau level electrons have minimum spatial extensions. We show that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Ishikawa , N. Maeda , K. Tadaki

A non-minimal photon-torsion axial coupling in the quantum electrodynamics (QED) framework is considered. The geometrical optics in Riemannian-Cartan spacetime is considering and a plane wave expansion of the electromagnetic vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

The divergence of the photon self - energy diagram in spinor quantum electrodynamics in $(2+1)$ dimensional space time- $(QED_3)$ is studied by the Pauli - Villars regularization and dimensional regularization. Results obtained by two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-09 Nguyen Suan Han , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

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

Graphene's low-energy electronic excitations obey a 2+1 dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian. After extending this Hamiltonian to include interactions with a quantized electromagnetic field, we calculate the amplitude associated with the simplest,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew Mecklenburg , Jason Woo , B. C. Regan

In the arena of the discrete phase space and continuous time, the theory of S-marix is formulated. In the special case of Quantum-Electrodynamics (QED), the Feynman rules are precisely developed. These rules in the fourmomentum turn out to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 A. Das

We investigate the low energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the system deformations into an effective gauge field. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Enrique Arias , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio Lewenkopf

The recent discovery of two-dimensional Dirac materials, such as graphene and transition-metaldichalcogenides, has raised questions about the treatment of hybrid systems, in which electrons moving in a two-dimensional plane interact via…

Returning to the old problems in ordinary QED, by an appropriate extension of the dimensional regularization method in noncommutative space we try to provide a quite coherent look into NCQED.The renormalisation of theories, the $\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nguyen Tien Binh

We show that fractional charges bound to topological defects in the recently proposed time-reversal-invariant models on honeycomb and square lattices obey fractional statistics. The effective low-energy description is given in terms of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-01 B. Seradjeh , M. Franz

We study the Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory systematically in an effort to generalize the Coleman-Hill result to the non-Abelian case. We show that, while the Chern-Simons coefficient is in general gauge dependent in a non-Abelian theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. T. Brandt , Ashok Das , J. Frenkel

Quantum corrections to Lorentz- and CPT-violating QED in flat spacetime produce unusual radiative corrections, which can be finite but of undetermined magnitude. The corresponding radiative corrections in a gravitational theory are even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-20 Brett Altschul

The problem of gauge invariance in an ultraviolet complete quantum field theory (QFT) with nonlocal interactions is investigated. For local fields that couple through a nonlocal interaction, it is demonstrated that the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-02 J. W. Moffat