Parity anomaly due to fermion zero modes at graphene edges

Grigory Tkachov

MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Electronic Correlations/
Mesoscopic Systems, Dresden, Germany

Authors: Grigory Tkachov and Martina Hentschel

A connection between the parity anomaly of 2+1 dimensional electrodynamics and spontaneously broken symmetries at graphene edges is studied. We suggest how the parity anomaly in graphene can be observed via STM measurements.

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