• 文献标题:   Vacuum polarization in graphene with a topological defect
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SITENKO YA, VLASII ND
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  • 出版物名称:   LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1063-777X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Acad Sci Ukraine
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.2981397
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

The influence of a topological defect in graphene on the ground state of electronic quasiparticle excitations is studied in the framework of the long-wavelength continuum model originating in the tight-binding approximation for the nearest-neighbor interaction in the graphitic lattice. A topological defect that rolls up a graphitic sheet into a nanocone is represented by a pointlike pseudomagnetic vortex with a flux which is related to the deficit angle of the cone. The method of self-adjoint extensions is employed to define the set of physically acceptable boundary conditions at the apex of the nanocone. The electronic system on a graphitic nanocone is found to acquire a ground-state condensate and current of special type, and we determine the dependence of these quantities on the deficit angle of the nanocone, the continuous parameter of the boundary condition at the apex, and the distance from the apex. (C) 2008 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2981397]