• 文献标题:   Novel electric field effects on Landau levels in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LUKOSE V, SHANKAR R, BASKARAN G
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Inst Math Sci
  • 被引频次:   178
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.116802
  • 出版年:   2007

▎ 摘  要

A new effect in graphene in the presence of crossed uniform electric and magnetic fields is predicted. Landau levels are shown to be modified in an unexpected fashion by the electric field, leading to a collapse of the spectrum, when the value of electric to magnetic field ratio exceeds a certain critical value. Our theoretical results, strikingly different from the standard 2D electron gas, are explained using a "Lorentz boost," and as an "instability of a relativistic quantum field vacuum." It is a remarkable case of emergent relativistic type phenomena in nonrelativistic graphene. We also discuss few possible experimental consequence.