• 文献标题:   Helicity-from Clifford to graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BOHMER CG, CORPE L
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AMATHEMATICAL THEORETICAL
  • ISSN:   1751-8113
  • 通讯作者地址:   UCL
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1088/1751-8113/45/20/205206
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We investigate two seemingly disjoint definitions of helicity, one commonly used in particle physics, the other one used when studying bilinear covariants of Clifford algebras. We can prove that the 'mathematical' definition of helicity implies its 'physical' counterpart. As an unexpected application of our result, we show that the Hamiltonian describing the one-layer superconductor graphene is proportional to the trace of an operator that is used in the 'mathematical' definition of helicity.