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arxiv: 0711.4333 · v3 · submitted 2007-11-27 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.str-el

Chiral Decomposition in the Electronic Structure of Graphene Multilayers

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
keywords chiraldoubletselectronicgraphenelayermultilayerspseudospinstructure
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We show that the low-energy electronic structure of arbitrarily stacked graphene multilayers with nearest-neighbor interlayer tunneling consists of chiral pseudospin doublets. Although the number of doublets in an $N$-layer system depends on the stacking sequence, the pseudospin chirality sum is always $N$. $N$-layer stacks have $N$ distinct Landau levels at E=0 for each spin and valley, and quantized Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy} = \pm(4 e^2/h)(N/2+n)$ where $n$ is a non-negative integer.

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