Course
| Some aspects of graphene physics (1) |
| Gilles Montambaux |
| montambaux AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr |
| LPS Paris Sud |
| le Tuesday 23 November 2010 à 11h00 |
| Amphi 7 (FST) |
| Graphene is a perfect 2D crystal which, not so long ago, was considered as a hypothetical material. Since its discovery in 2004, it has become a playground for many condensed-matter physicists, essentially because it is strictly two-dimensional and it offers a simple realization of relativistic massless particles. In this set of lectures, I will try to cover parts of the following topics:
(1) Introduction : History, fabrication, first experiments Electronic structure : Tight-binding spectrum, structure of wave functions, density of states, Landau levels Dirac equation : Linearized Hamiltonian, Berry phase, Absence of backscattering, Klein tunnelling |
| PDF file |
| try on the Nancy StatPhys group website if the pdf is not available here |