• 文献标题:   Dirac cone metric and the origin of the spin connections in monolayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG B
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   ASTAR
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.91.241403
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

We show that the modulation of the hopping amplitudes in the honeycomb lattice of the monolayer graphene uniquely defines a metric which corresponds to the shape of the Dirac cone near the Dirac points. The spin connection derived from this effective metric field agrees exactly with the microscopic tight-binding Hamiltonian. The paradoxical mismatch between the quantum field theory (QFT) approach and the microscopic tight-binding model in the literature is resolved. The effective metric as seen by the sublattice pseudospin is different from the real-space metric as defined by the two-dimensional manifold of the graphene monolayer. All relevant terms of the effective gauge field from the microscopic model are calculated exactly for a unimodular effective metric.