A weak-value model for virtual particles supplying the electric current in graphene: the minimal conductivity and the Schwinger mechanism

We propose a model for the electric current in graphene in which electric carriers are supplied by virtual particles allowed by the uncertainty relations. The process to make a virtual particle real is described by a weak value of a group velocity: the velocity is requisite for the electric field to...

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Main Authors: Kazuhiro Yokota, Nobuyuki Imoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/7/073003