Gauge fields in graphene
Mar 26, 2010Citations per year
Abstract: (Elsevier)
The physics of graphene is acting as a bridge between quantum field theory and condensed matter physics due to the special quality of the graphene quasiparticles behaving as massless two dimensional Dirac fermions. Moreover, the particular structu re of the 2D crystal lattice sets the arena to study and unify concepts from elasticity, topology and cosmology. In this paper we analyze these connections combining a pedagogical, intuitive approach with a more rigorous formalism when required.Note:
- Update of the manuscript published on-line in Physics Reports. 43 pages, 18 figures
- Graphene
- Fermions in curved background
- Elasticity theory
- Gauge formulation of elasticity
- crystal: lattice
- fermion: Dirac
- dimension: 2
- graphene
- gauge field theory
- condensed matter
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