Research — Composite dark matter
Summary: The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to recognize the experimental isolation and characterization of graphene, a remarkable two-dimensional material consisting of carbon atoms arranged in a regular honeycomb lattice. Among the many unusual properties of graphene, in the context of lattice field theory the existence of strongly interacting massless fermion quasi-particles is particularly significant. My work on graphene focused on showing how lattice field theory can be applied to study this material non-perturbatively from first principles. Image: A picture showing the layout of carbon atoms in the two-dimensional graphene system, taken from 2015 Aspen lectures by Igor Herbut. The colors show the two triangular sub-lattices of graphene: Atoms colored red have three nearest-neighbor atoms colored blue (and vice versa), and are farther away from any other atoms colored red. Related publications: arXiv:1204.5424, arXiv:1101.5131 |
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