Luttinger liquid at the edge of undoped graphene in a strong magnetic field

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Fertig, H. A. [1 ]
Brey, L.
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[1] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[2] CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.116805
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We demonstrate that an undoped two-dimensional carbon plane (graphene) whose bulk is in the integer quantum Hall regime supports a nonchiral Luttinger liquid at an armchair edge. This behavior arises due to the unusual dispersion of the noninteracting edge states, causing a crossing of bands with different valley and spin indices at the edge. We demonstrate that this stabilizes a domain wall structure with a spontaneously ordered phase degree of freedom. This coherent domain wall supports gapless charged excitations, and has a power law tunneling I-V with a nonintegral exponent. In proximity to a bulk lead, the edge may undergo a quantum phase transition between the Luttinger liquid phase and a metallic state.
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