Induced fermionic current in toroidally compactified spacetimes with applications to cylindrical and toroidal nanotubes

Details Induced fermionic current in toroidally compactified spacetimes with applications to cylindrical and toroidal nanotubes Induced fermionic current in toroidally compactified spacetimes with applications to cylindrical and toroidal nanotubes

2010-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/1002.1391v2

Phys.Rev.D82:065011,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

18 pages, 5 figures, explicit regularization procedure added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.065011

The vacuum expectation value of the fermionic current is evaluated for a massive spinor field in spacetimes with an arbitrary number of toroidally compactified spatial dimensions in presence of a constant gauge field. By using the Abel-Plana type summation formula and the zeta function technique we present the fermionic current in two different forms. Non-trivial topology of the background spacetime leads to the Aharonov-Bohm effect on the fermionic current induced by the gauge field. The current is a periodic function of the magnetic flux with the period equal to the flux quantum. In the absence of the gauge field it vanishes for special cases of untwisted and twisted fields. Applications of the general formulae to Kaluz-Klein type models and to cylindrical and toroidal carbon nanotubes are given. In the absence of magnetic flux the total fermionic current in carbon nanotubes vanishes, due to the cancellation of contributions from two different sublattices of the graphene hexagonal lattice.

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