Gap generation for Dirac fermions on Lobachevsky plane in a magnetic field

Abstract

We study symmetry breaking and gap generation for fermions in the 2D space of constant negative curvature (the Lobachevsky plane) in an external covariantly constant magnetic field in a four-fermion model. It is shown that due to the magnetic and negative curvature catalysis phenomena the critical coupling constant is zero and there is a symmetry breaking condensate in the chiral limit even in free theory. We analyze solutions of the gap equation in the cases of zero, weak, and strong magnetic fields. As a byproduct we calculate the density of states and the Hall conductivity for noninteracting fermions that may be relevant for studies of graphene.

Comments: 12 pages, no figures