Chiral Gauge Theory for Graphene

R. Jackiw and S.-Y. Pi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 266402 – Published 26 June 2007

Abstract

We construct a chiral gauge theory to describe fractionalization of fermions in graphene. Thereby we extend a recently proposed model, which relies on vortex formation. Our chiral gauge fields provide dynamics for the vortices and also couple to the fermions.

Received 31 January 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.266402

Authors & Affiliations

R. Jackiw¹ and S.-Y. Pi²

¹Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
²Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA