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Worasak Prarokijjak, Bumned Soodchomshom. Electron with arbitrary pseudo-spins in multilayer grapheneJ. Chin. Phys. B, 2015, 24(4): 048101.
| Worasak Prarokijjak, Bumned Soodchomshom. Electron with arbitrary pseudo-spins in multilayer grapheneJ. Chin. Phys. B, 2015, 24(4): 048101. |
Electron with arbitrary pseudo-spins in multilayer graphene
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Abstract
Using the low-energy effective Hamiltonian of the ABC-stacked multilayer graphene, the pseudo-spin coupling to real orbital angular momentum of electrons in multilayer graphene is investigated. We show that the electron wave function in N-layer graphene mimics the behavior of a particle with a spin of N× (ħ/2), where N=1, 2, 3,.... It is said that for N>1 the low-energy effective Hamiltonian for ABC-stacked graphene cannot be used to describe pseudo-spin-1/2 particles. The wave function of electrons in multilayer graphene may behave like fermionic (or bosonic) particle for N being odd (or even). In this paper, we propose a theory of graphene serving as a host material of electrons with arbitrary pseudo-spins tunable by changing the number of graphene layers. -
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