Generalization of Chiral Symmetry for Tilted Dirac Cones

Details Generalization of Chiral Symmetry for Tilted Dirac Cones Generalization of Chiral Symmetry for Tilted Dirac Cones

2012-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/1201.5175v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the APCTP Conference on Localisation 2011

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The notion of chiral symmetry for the conventional Dirac cone is generalized to include the tilted Dirac cones, where the generalized chiral operator turns out to be non-hermitian. It is shown that the generalized chiral symmetry generically protects the zero modes (n=0 Landau level) of the Dirac cone even when tilted. The present generalized symmetry is equivalent to the condition that the Dirac Hamiltonian is elliptic as a differential operator, which provides an explicit relevance to the index theorem.

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