Topological vortices in chiral gauge theory of graphene

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.10.004MaRDI QIDQ848983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xin Liu, R. B. Zhang

Publication date 24 February 2010

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0791

zbMATH Keywords

grapheneenergy gapstopological vortex structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

Abstract: Generation mechanism of energy gaps between conductance and valence bands is at the centre of the study of graphene material. Recently Chamon, Jackiw, et al. proposed a mechanism of using a Kekul'{e} distortion background field $\mathrm{\%}varphi$ and its induced gauge potential $A_i$ to generate energy gaps. In this paper various vortex structures inhering in this model are studied. Regarding $varphi$ as a generic background field rather than a fixed Nielson-Oleson type distribution, we have found two new types of vortices on the graphene surface --- the velocity field vortices and the monopole-motion induced vortices --- from the inner structure of the potential $A_i$. These vortex structures naturally arise from the motion of the Dirac fermions instead of from the background distortion field.

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