Seminar of the School of Physical Sciences
A Quantum Hall Phase Transition in nu=0 Graphene
Ganapathy Murthy
(University of Kentucky, Lexington)
Date: January 11, 2017 (Wednesday)
Abstract: Graphene is now well known as a remarkable two-dimensional material that is described by a Dirac-like spectrum at low energies. In the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field, Landau quantization occurs and one observes the quantum Hall effect. A couple of years ago it was observed that a quantum phase transition occurs as a function of the Zeeman coupling strength in particle-hole symmetric (or nu=0) Graphene. I will talk about the qualitative physics of this transition, as well as some detailed calculations we have carried out to make predictions for edge transport.