Honeycomb lattice potentials and dirac points

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1169-1220

  Fefferman, Charles L ^a   Weinstein, Michael I ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion relation; Floquet Bloch theory; Graphene; Honeycomb lattice potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864228118     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-2012-00745-0     Document Type: Article

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