Published September 19, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

The Hawking-Unruh phenomenon on graphene

  • 1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague 8 (Czech Republic)
  • 2. INFN, Sezione di Napoli (Italy)
  • 3. Department of Physics "Caianiello", University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (Italy)

Description

We find that, for a very specific shape of a monolayer graphene sample, a general relativistic-like description of a back-ground spacetime for graphene's conductivity electrons is very natural. The corresponding electronic local density of states is of finite temperature. This is a Hawking-Unruh effect that we propose to detect through an experiment with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.023

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.023;
arXiv
arXiv:1108.2340v3;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00860-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
716
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 334-337
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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