https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00234-4
Edge physics of graphene in the quantum Hall regime
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Department of Physics, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Corresponding author: hfertig@indiana.edu
We study the electronic edge states of graphene in the quantum Hall regime. For non-interacting electrons, graphene supports both electron-like and hole-like edge states. We find there are half as many edge states of each type in the lowest Landau level compared to higher Landau levels, leading to a quantization of the Hall conductance that is shifted relative to standard two dimensional electron gases. We also consider the effect of quantum Hall ferromagnetism on this edge structure, and find an unusual Luttinger liquid at the edge in undoped graphene. This arises due to a domain wall that forms near the edge between partially spin-polarized and valley-polarized regions. The domain wall has a U(1) degree of freedom which generates both collective and charged gapless excitations, whose consequences for tunneling experiments are discussed.
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