• 文献标题:   Graphene and the Zermelo optical metric of the BTZ black hole
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CVETIC M, GIBBONS GW
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, black hole, btz black hole, optical geometry
  • 出版物名称:   ANNALS OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0003-4916
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Cambridge
  • 被引频次:   31
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.aop.2012.05.013
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

It is well known that the low energy electron excitations of the curved graphene sheet Sigma are solutions of the massless Dirac equation on a 2 + 1 dimensional ultra-static metric on R x Sigma. An externally applied electric field on the graphene sheet induces a gauge potential which could be mimicked by considering a stationary optical metric of the Zermelo form, which is conformal to the BTZ black hole when the sheet has a constant negative curvature. The Randers form of the metric can model a magnetic field, which is related by a boost to an electric one in the Zermelo frame. We also show that there is a fundamental geometric obstacle to obtaining a model that extends all the way to the black hole horizon. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.