Graphene as a laboratory for quantum field theory methods

Prof. Dam Thanh Son, University of Washington - INT
4:15 PM, Dec. 4, 2007, Duke

Graphene sheets are single layers of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal lattice. We describe the effective theory describing the low-energy degrees of freedom in graphene. We describe the fixed points, including a strong-coupling fixed point with nontrivial dynamic critical exponents. Possible physical consequences are discussed.