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2011年4月

Valley Spin Sum Rule for Dirac Fermions: Topological Argument

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • Jun Goryo

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英語
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DOI
10.1143/JPSJ.80.043704
出版者・発行元
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN

We consider a two-dimensional lattice system with two sites in its unit cell. In such a system, the Bloch band spectrum can have some valley points, around which Dirac fermions appear as low-energy excitations. Each valley point has a valley spin +/- 1. In the system, there are two topological numbers counting vortices and merons in the Brillouin zone, respectively. These numbers are equivalent, and this fact leads to a sum rule that states that the total sum of the valley spins is absent even in a system without time-reversal and parity symmetries. We can see some similarity between the valley spin and chirality in the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem in odd-spatial dimensions.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.80.043704
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1010.0071
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000289346600006&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0071v3
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1143/JPSJ.80.043704
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • arXiv ID : arXiv:1010.0071
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000289346600006

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