• 文献标题:   Planar QED at finite temperature and density: Hall conductivity, Berry's phases and minimal conductivity of graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BENEVENTANO CG, GIACCONI P, SANTANGELO EM, SOLDATI R
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AMATHEMATICAL THEORETICAL
  • ISSN:   1751-8113
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Nacl La Plata
  • 被引频次:   27
  • DOI:   10.1088/1751-8113/42/27/275401
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We study one-loop effects for massless Dirac fields in two spatial dimensions, coupled to homogeneous electromagnetic backgrounds, both at zero and at finite temperature and density. In the case of a purely magnetic field, we analyze the relationship among the invariance of the theory under large gauge transformations, the appearance of Chern-Simons terms and of different Berry's phases. In the case of a purely electric background field, we show that the effective Lagrangian is independent of the chemical potential and of the temperature. More interesting, we show that the minimal conductivity, as predicted by the quantum field theory, is the right multiple of the conductivity quantum and is, thus, consistent with the value measured for graphene, with no extra factor of pi in the denominator.