Remarks on the tight-binding model of graphene

Details Remarks on the tight-binding model of graphene Remarks on the tight-binding model of graphene

2007-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/0712.0765v1

New J. Phys. 11, 095003 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

15 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/11/9/095003

We address a simple but fundamental issue arising in the study of graphene, as well as of other systems that have a crystalline structure with more than one atom per unit cell. For these systems, the choice of the tight-binding basis is not unique. For monolayer graphene two bases are widely used in the literature. While the expectation values of operators describing physical quantities should be independent of basis, the form of the operators may depend on the basis, especially in the presence of disorder or of an applied magnetic field. Using the inappropriate form of certain operators may lead to erroneous physical predictions. We discuss the two bases used to describe monolayer graphene, as well as the form of the most commonly used operators in the two bases. We repeat our analysis for the case of bilayer graphene.

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