Published February 4, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Supersymmetric structure of quantum Hall effects in graphene

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, 113-0033 (Japan)

Description

Electrons behave as Dirac fermions in graphene, though their speed is given by the Fermi velocity. In such a system the Zeeman splitting is exactly as large as the Landau level separation. It leads to the emergence of the zero-energy state and multiplets made of the nonzero-energy up-spin and down-spin states. Hence, the supersymmetry is a good symmetry in graphene. We present a unified description of quantum Hall effects in multilayer graphene based on the supersymmetric formalism. We extend the Dirac Hamiltonian to include two indices j↑ and j↓, characterized by the dispersion relation E(p)∝pj↑+j↓ and the Berry phase π(j↑-j↓). The quantized Hall conductivity is shown to be σxy=±(2N+j↑+j↓)2e2/h for N=0,1,2,3,...

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2007.08.071

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2007.08.071;
arXiv
arXiv:cond-mat/0606084v1;
PII
S0375-9601(07)01229-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
372
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 924-929
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

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