Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect of 4D Graphene in Background Fields

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

Boriçi-Creutz (\emph{BC}) model describing the dynamics of light quarks in lattice \emph{QCD} has been shown to be intimately linked to the four dimensional extension of 2D graphene refereed below to as four dimensional graphene (\emph{4D-graphene}). Borrowing ideas from the field theory description of the usual \emph{2D} graphene, we study in this paper the anomalous quantum Hall effect (AQHE) of the \emph{BC} fermions in presence of a constant background field strength Fμν\mathcal{F}_{μν} with a special focuss on the case Fμν=Bεμν34+Eε12μν\mathcal{F}_{μν}=\mathcal{B}ε_{μν34}+\mathcal{E}ε_{12μν} with B\mathcal{B} and E \mathcal{E} two real\ moduli and det⁡Fμν=B2×E2\det \mathcal{F}_{μν}=\mathcal{B}^{2}\mathcal{\times E}^{2}. First, we revisit the anomalous \emph{2D} graphene by using \emph{QFT} method. Then, we consider the AQHE of \emph{BC}fermions for both regular det⁡Fμν≠0\det \mathcal{F}_{μν}\neq 0 and singular det⁡Fμν=0 \det F_{μν}=0 cases. We show, amongst others, that the exact solutions of the \emph{BC} fermions coupled to constant Fμν\mathcal{F}_{μν} have a 5D interpretation; and the filling factor νBCν_{BC} of the \emph{BC}\ model coupled to constant Fμν\mathcal{F}_{μν} is given by 2424% \frac{(2N+1) (2M+1)}{2} with N,N, MM positive integers. Others features, such as FμνQCD≠0\mathcal{F}_{μν}^{QCD}\neq 0 \textrm{and the extension of the obtained results to the lattice fermions like Karsten-Wilzeck (KW) fermions and naive ones}, are also discussed. Key words: Lattice QCD, Boriçi-Creutz fermions, Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect, filling factor, four dimensional graphene, Index theorem, Spectral flow.

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