Edge States and the Quantized Hall Effect in Graphene

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2006-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602505v1

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195408 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.195408

We study edges states of graphene ribbons in the quantized Hall regime, and show that they can be described within a continuum model (the Dirac equation) when appropriate boundary conditions are adopted. The two simplest terminations, zigzag and armchair edges, are studied in detail. For zigzag edges, we find that the lowest Landau level states terminate in two types of edge states, dispersionless and current-carrying surface states. The latter involve components on different sublattices that may be separated by distances far greater than the magnetic length. For armchair edges, the boundary conditions are met by admixing states from different valleys, and we show that this leads to a single set of edges states for the lowest Landau level and two sets for all higher Landau levels. In both cases, the resulting Hall conductance step for the lowest Landau level is half that between higher Landau levels, as observed in experiment.

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