| Literature DB >> 18643528 |
Petra Dietl1, Frédéric Piéchon, Gilles Montambaux.
Abstract
We consider a tight-binding model on the honeycomb lattice in a magnetic field. For special values of the hopping integrals, the dispersion relation is linear in one direction and quadratic in the other. We find that, in this case, the energy of the Landau levels varies with the field B as epsilon(n)(B) ~ [(n+gamma)B](2/3). This result is obtained from the low-field study of the tight-binding spectrum on the honeycomb lattice in a magnetic field (Hofstadter spectrum) as well as from a calculation in the continuum approximation at low field. The latter links the new spectrum to the one of a modified quartic oscillator. The obtained value gamma=1/2 is found to result from the cancellation of a Berry phase.Entities:
Year: 2008 PMID: 18643528 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.236405
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161