• 文献标题:   Polarization as a topological quantum number in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   AOKI H, HATSUGAI Y
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Tokyo
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.90.045206
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Graphene, with its quantum Hall topological (Chern) number reflecting the massless Dirac particle, is shown to harbor yet another topological quantum number. This is obtained by combining Streda's general formula for the polarization associated with a second topological number in the Diophantine equation for the Hofstadter problem, and the adiabatic continuity, earlier shown to exist between the square and honeycomb lattices by Hatsugai et al. Specifically, the adiabatic continuity enables us to regard graphene as a simulator of square lattice with half flux quantum per unit cell, which implies, with a semiclassical treatment around rational fluxes implemented here, that the polarization topological numbers in graphene in weak magnetic fields is 1/2 per Dirac cone for the energy region between the van Hove singularities. Possible experimental setups for observing this topological numbers in cold atoms are proposed as well.