Landau level degeneracy and quantum Hall effect in a graphite bilayer.

McCann, Edward and Fal’ko, Vladimir I. (2006) Landau level degeneracy and quantum Hall effect in a graphite bilayer. Physical review letters, 96 (8). 086805. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

We derive an effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian to describe the low energy electronic excitations of a graphite bilayer, which correspond to chiral quasiparticles with a parabolic dispersion exhibiting Berry phase 2pi. Its high-magnetic-field Landau level spectrum consists of almost equidistant groups of four-fold degenerate states at finite energy and eight zero-energy states. This can be translated into the Hall conductivity dependence on carrier density, sigma_xy(N), which exhibits plateaus at integer values of 4e^2/h and has a “double” 8e^2/h step between the hole and electron gases across zero density, in contrast to (4n + 2)e^2/h sequencing in a monolayer.

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Physical review letters
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©2006 The American Physical Society
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?? physics and astronomy(all)qc physics ??
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30828
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08 Dec 2009 11:38
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