Emergent geometry experienced by fermions in graphene in the presence of dislocations
Creators
- 1. L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kosygina 2, 119334 Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 2. Low Temperature Laboratory, School of Science and Technology, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15100, FI-00076 AALTO (Finland)
- 3. ITEP, B.Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow, 117259 (Russian Federation)
- 4. The University of Western Ontario, Department of Applied Mathematics, 1151 Richmond St. N., London (ON), Canada N6A 5B7 (Canada)
Description
In graphene in the presence of strain the elasticity theory metric naturally appears. However, this is not the one experienced by fermionic quasiparticles. Fermions propagate in curved space, whose metric is defined by expansion of the effective Hamiltonian near the topologically protected Fermi point. We discuss relation between both types of metric for different parametrizations of graphene surface. Next, we extend our consideration to the case, when the dislocations are present. We consider the situation, when the deformation is described by elasticity theory and calculate both torsion and emergent magnetic field carried by the dislocation. The dislocation carries singular torsion in addition to the quantized flux of emergent magnetic field. Both may be observed in the scattering of quasiparticles on the dislocation. Emergent magnetic field flux manifests itself in the Aharonov–Bohm effect while the torsion singularity results in Stodolsky effect
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2015.03.005Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aop.2015.03.005;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1412.2683v3;
- PII
- S0003-4916(15)00100-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Annals of Physics (New York)
- Journal Volume
- 356
- Journal Page Range
- p. 255-268
- ISSN
- 0003-4916
- CODEN
- APNYA6
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47020710
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DISLOCATIONS; ELASTICITY; FERMIONS; GRAPHENE; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUASI PARTICLES; STRAINS
- Descriptors DEC
- CARBON; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELEMENTS; LINE DEFECTS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NONMETALS; QUANTUM OPERATORS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.