Position space formulation for Dirac fermions on honeycomb lattice

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.05.014zbMATH Open1323.82065arXiv1303.2886OpenAlexW1974108429MaRDI QIDQ748652FDOQ748652

Authors: Masaki Hirotsu, Tetsuya Onogi, Eigo Shintani 

Publication date: 29 October 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study how to construct Dirac fermion defined on the honeycomb lattice in position space. Starting from the nearest neighbor interaction in tight binding model, we show that the Hamiltonian is constructed by kinetic term and second derivative term of three flavor Dirac fermions in which one flavor has a mass of cutoff order and the other flavors are massless. In this formulation the structure of the Dirac point is simplified so that its uniqueness can be easily shown even if we consider the next-nearest neighbor interaction. We also show the chiral symmetry at finite lattice spacing, which protects the masslessness of the Dirac fermion, and discuss the analogy with the staggered fermion formulation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2886

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zbMATH Keywords

next-to-nearest neighbor interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

Cites Work

• AC CONDUCTIVITY OF GRAPHENE: FROM TIGHT-BINDING MODEL TO 2 + 1-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS

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