Published May 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Emergent geometry experienced by fermions in graphene in the presence of dislocations

  • 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.2015.03.005

Additional 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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