Emergent geometry experienced by fermions in graphene in the presence of dislocations

G. E. Volovik, M. A. Zubkov

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Abstract

In graphene in the presence of strain the elasticity theory metric naturally appears. However, this is not the one experienced by fermionic quasiparticles. Fermions propagate in curved space, whose metric is defined by expansion of the effective Hamiltonian near the topologically protected Fermi point. We discuss relation between both types of metric for different parametrizations of graphene surface. Next, we extend our consideration to the case, when the dislocations are present. We consider the situation, when the deformation is described by elasticity theory and calculate both torsion and emergent magnetic field carried by the dislocation. The dislocation carries singular torsion in addition to the quantized flux of emergent magnetic field. Both may be observed in the scattering of quasiparticles on the dislocation. Emergent magnetic field flux manifests itself in the Aharonov-Bohm effect while the torsion singularity results in Stodolsky effect.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-268
Number of pages14
JournalAnnals of Physics
Volume356
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Elasticity
  • Emergent gauge field
  • Emergent gravity
  • Graphene
  • Strain

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