<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JMP</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Modern Physics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2153-1196</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/jmp.2017.84041</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JMP-74995</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Electronic Band Structure of Graphene Based on the Rectangular 4-Atom Unit Cell
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Akira</surname><given-names>Suzuki</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Masashi</surname><given-names>Tanabe</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shigeji</surname><given-names>Fujita</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>09</day><month>03</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>08</volume><issue>04</issue><fpage>607</fpage><lpage>621</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>February</day>	<month>13,</month>	<year>2017</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>Accepted:</day>	<month>March</month>	<year>27,</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>March</day>	<month>30,</month>	<year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  The Wigner-Seitz unit cell (rhombus) for a honeycomb lattice fails to establish a 
  <em>k</em>-vector in the 2D space, which is required for the Bloch electron dynamics. Phonon motion cannot be discussed in the triangular coordinates, either. In this paper, we propose a rectangular 4-atom unit cell model, which allows us to discuss the electron and phonon (wave packets) motion in the 
  <em>k</em>-space. The present paper discusses the band structure of graphene based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model to establish an appropriate 
  <em>k</em>-vector for the Bloch electron dynamics. To obtain the band energy of a Bloch electron in graphene, we extend the tight-binding calculations for the Wigner-Seitz (2-atom unit cell) model of Reich et al. (
  <em>Physical Review B</em>, 66, Article ID: 035412 (2002)) to the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model. It is shown that the graphene band structure based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model reveals the same band structure of the graphene based on the Wigner-Seitz 2-atom unit cell model; the 
  &amp;pi;-band energy holds a linear dispersion (
  &amp;epsilon;&amp;minus;<em>k</em> ) relations near the Fermi energy (crossing points of the valence and the conduction bands) in the first Brillouin zone of the rectangular reciprocal lattice. We then confirm the suitability of the proposed rectangular (orthogonal) unit cell model for graphene in order to establish a 2D 
  <em>k</em>-vector responsible for the Bloch electron (wave packet) dynamics in graphene.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Graphene</kwd><kwd> Rectangular 4-Atom Unit Cell Model</kwd><kwd> Primitive Orthogonal  Basis Vector</kwd><kwd> Bloch Electron (Wave Packet) Dynamics</kwd><kwd>  &lt;i&gt;k&lt;/i&gt;-Vector</kwd><kwd>  Dirac Points</kwd><kwd> Linear Dispersion Relation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>The electronic band structure of graphene plays an important role for under- standing its unique properties [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref4">4</xref>] . Graphene is a perfect two- dimensional crystal consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. A carbon atom contains four valence electrons, one <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x10.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>- electron, and three <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x11.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electrons. They are <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x12.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-hybridized, that is, one <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x13.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>- electron and two <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electrons form strong <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bonds between carbon atoms leading to the honeycomb structure with the carbon-carbon distance of 0.142 nm. The remaining <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x16.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electron occurs as a <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-orbital, which is oriented perpendicularly to the planar structure, and forms a <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bond with the neigh- bouring carbon atoms. The <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bonds are completely filled and form a deep valence band [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref2">2</xref>] . The smallest gap between the bonding and the anti-bonding <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bands is approximately 11 eV. Therefore, the majority of low-energy physical effects is determined by the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bands. Since the overlap with other orbitals (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>) is strictly zero by symmetry, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electrons forming the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bonds can be treated independently from other valence electrons [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref5">5</xref>] .</p><p>Indeed, the band structure of graphene can be seen as a triangular lattice with a basis of two atoms per unit cell. This 2-atom unit cell (Wigner-Seitz (WS) cell) model has customarily been used to obtain the graphene band structure for the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electrons. The band structure provides useful information about the energy dispersion relation of electrons at zero temperature. At finite temperatures those thermally excited “electrons” and “holes” play an essential role for carrier transport properties. Following Ashcroft and Mermin (AM) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref6">6</xref>] , if we adopt the semiclassical model of electron dynamics in solids, it is necessary to introduce a <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula230"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x27.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the Cartesian orthogonal unit vectors since the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, is involved in the semiclassical equation of (wave packet) motion:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula231"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x31.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the electric and magnetic fields, respectively, and the vector <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula232"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x35.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>is the electron velocity where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the electron energy. In the semiclassical theory electrons are treated as a wave packet. The 2D crystals such as graphene can also be treated similarly, only the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-component being dropped. Graphene forms a 2D honeycomb lattice. The WS unit cell is a rhombus (dotted lines) as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>(a).</p><p>The potential energy <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is lattice-periodic:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula233"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x39.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are Bravais vectors with the primitive non-orthogonal vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and integers<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. In the field theoretical formulation, the field point <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is given by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the point defined within the standard WS unit cell. Equation (4) describes the 2D lattice periodicity but</p><fig-group id="fig1"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref></label><caption><title> (a) Lattice structure of graphene. Carbon atoms at vertices. Each honeycomb lattice consists of equivalent carbon (C<sup>+</sup>) ions labeled by A and B. The Wigner-Seitz 2-atom unit cell (dotted lines) spanned by the basis (lattice unit) vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; (b) Reciprocal lattice showing the first Brillouin zone (BZ) of graphene including the high-symmetry points<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, K, and M. The BZ is spanned by two reciprocal lattice vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> constructed from the basis vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</title></caption><fig id ="fig1_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x46.png"/></fig></fig-group><p>does not establish the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-space for the Bloch electrons in graphene, which will be explained in Section 4, and this fact has motivated us to study the band structure for a Bloch electron based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model for graphene (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(a)), which defines the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x55.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vectors playing an important roll for a Bloch electron dynamics.</p><p>Our purpose of this paper is to explore the suitability of the rectangular (orthogonal) unit cell model for the Bloch electron band structure and to discuss the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector defined in the 2D space for Bloch electrons in graphene. Based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model of graphene, we obtain the band structure for the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electrons of graphene by extending the prevalent tight-binding calculations for the Wigner-Seitz (WS) 2-atom unit cell model to the rectangular (orthogonal) 4-atom unit cell model introduced by the present authors [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref7">7</xref>] .</p><p>In Section 2, the rectangular 4-atom unit cell of graphene is introduced. Section 3 presents our tight-binding calculations of the energy band of a Bloch electron in graphene, based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model described in Section 2. Section 4 illustrates why we have to utilize the rectangular (orthogonal) unit cell rather than the WS unit cell when considering the electron dynamics of graphene. Results and discussion are given in Section 5. Finally conclusions and some remarks are given in Section 6.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. The Rectangular 4-Atom Unit Cell Model for Graphene</title><p>Graphene is made out of honeycomb lattice (carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal structure) and the 2D honeycomb lattice has a reflection symmetry relative to the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>- and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-axis (cp. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(a)). Then the band structure for a Bloch electron in graphene can be constructed from a rectangular lattice with a basis of four atoms per unit cell, which we call the rectangular 4-atom unit cell.</p><fig-group id="fig2"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref></label><caption><title> (a) Lattice structure of graphene, made out of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell (a square dotted line) spanned by the basis vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the nearest-neighbor vectors with the constant carbon-carbon distance of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; (b) The first Brillouin zone of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell. The <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the reciprocal lattice vectors corresponding to the lattice unit vectors. The high-symmetric points within the rectangular unit cell are indicated by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, X, Y, and W within the reciprocal lattice plane.</title></caption><fig id ="fig2_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x60.png"/></fig></fig-group><p>The reason why we choose a rectangular (orthogonal) unit cell rather than a triangular (WS) unit cell for graphene will be explained later.</p><p>The lattice basis (unit) vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of graphene (cp. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(a)) are defined as</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula234"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x69.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The lattice constants for the rectangular (orthogonal) unit cell in the Cartesian coordinates are <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, respectively, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the nearest-neighbor distance between two carbon atoms. The rectangular 4-atom unit cell of graphene contains four carbon atoms, say A, B, C, and D, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(a). The three nearest-neighbor vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in real space are defined (cp. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(a)) by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula235"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x74.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The reciprocal-lattice vectors for the rectangular unit cell are given (from Equation (5)) by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula236"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x75.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The first Brillouin zone is a rectangle as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(b) with sides of length, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and area equal to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. There are four key locations of high symmetry in the first Brillouin zone (FBZ) of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell. In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(b), these locations are identified as the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-point, the X-point, the Y-point, and the W-point. The <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-point is at the center of the Brillouin zone. The locations of these points in the 2D reciprocal space are:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula237"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x81.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Tight-Binding Approach</title><p>The single-particle band structure of graphene can be analytically calculated within the tight-binding approximation assuming that electrons are tightly bound to their C<sup>+</sup> ion [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref8">8</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref10">10</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref11">11</xref>] . In order to obtain the band structure of graphene based on the 4-atom rectangular unit cell model [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref7">7</xref>] for graphene, we follow the tight-binding approach employed by Reich et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref8">8</xref>] .</p><p>The Schr&#246;dinger equation for a single electron in the lattice potential field <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is expressed by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula238"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x83.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where the Hamiltonian <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula239"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x85.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and the lattice potential <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> has a lattice periodicity characteristic for graphene. The total wave function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the electron in the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-orbital (Bloch electron) may be obtained from the linear combination of the Bloch wave <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of the form:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula240"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x90.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x91.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the number of unit lattices and the index <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x91.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x92.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> refers to the respective carbon atoms. In the above expressions, the phase <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x91.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x92.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x93.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are introduced in order to satisfy the Bloch theorem in each conduction channel. Thus the wave function for a Bloch electron in graphene is then expressed by the linear combinations of these Bloch wave functions:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula241"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x94.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>’s are given by Equation (11) and the wave function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-orbital is normalized. The energy eigenvalues of Equation (9) for the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electron can be obtained in a usual manner by using the graphene Hamil- tonian (10) and the graphene wave function (12) along with Equation (11): Inserting Equation (12) into Equation (9) and multiplying <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> from the left to Equation (9), we obtain four separate equations, which are simply expressed in the matrix form as</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula242"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x100.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where the matrices, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x103.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, are respectively expressed by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula243"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x104.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula244"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x105.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula245"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x106.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Here <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the matrix elements of the Hamiltonian<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which we call hopping (or transfer) integral, and are the units of energy. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are the overlap matrix elements, which are given by the overlap integral between Bloch functions, and are unitless. Equation (13) expresses the simultaneous equations for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. In order to obtain the nontrivial solutions for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the secular equation determi- nant <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of their simultaneous equations must be zero:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula246"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x116.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since the atomic wave functions are well localized around the carbon atoms, only the nearest-neighbor hopping of Bloch electrons are taken into considera- tion of the following calculations. In other words, as for the electron in atom A orbital, it can hop to a nearest orbital of atom B or atom D. Similarly, the electron in the orbital of atom B can hop to the nearest orbital of atom A or atom C, the electron in the orbital of atom C to the nearest orbital of atom B or atom D, and the electron in the orbital of atom D to the nearest orbital of atom A or atom C.</p><p>Let us consider the nearest-neighbor hopping between the orbital of atom A and atom B. The matrix elements <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is expressed by the hopping integral:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula247"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x118.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Here we only take into account the nearest-neighbor hopping between carbon atoms. From the symmetry of the lattice stracture of graphene, the adjacent hoppings are all the same. We introduce the parametric parameter <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x119.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the adjacent hopping between the orbital of atom A and B:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula248"><label>(19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x120.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since the nearest-neighbor vector <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is given by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (cp. Equation (6)), Equation (18) can be expressed by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula249"><label>(20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x124.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similarly, the nearest-neighbor hopping integrals are given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula250"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x125.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We note that the hopping parameter <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x126.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the nearest-neighbor hopping energy (hopping between adjacent carbon atoms).</p><p>The matrix element <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x127.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (on-site hopping) is evaluated as</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula251"><label>(22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x128.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the number of the basic unit cells, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x130.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the parametric parameter for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x130.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Similar evaluation leads to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x130.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Next we evaluate the matrix elements<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which are given by the overlap integral<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x134.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Thus the matrix element <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x134.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is evaluated from</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula252"><label>(23)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x136.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Introducing the parametric parameter <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x137.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the overlap integral:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula253"><label>(24)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x138.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>the matrix element <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula254"><label>(25)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x140.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similarly we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula255"><label>(26)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x141.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We note that the matrix element <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x142.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is evaluated as</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula256"><label>(27)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x143.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In a similar manner, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula257"><label>(28)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x144.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We can solve Equation (17) for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> by using Equations (18)-(28) for the matrix elements, and obtain the four energy eigenvalues of Equation (9) for the graphene <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-electron bands:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula258"><label>(29)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x147.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula259"><label>(30)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x148.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the conduction-and the valence-band energies, respec- tively.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Electron Dynamics of Graphene</title><p>In semiclassical (wave packet) theory for electron dynamics, it is necessary to introduce a wave vector <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (namely, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref12">12</xref>] since the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vectors are involved in the semiclassical equation of motion (see Equation (2)). Here, we explain why we employed the rectangular (orthogonal) unit cell for graphene in order to calculate one electron energy band for graphene.</p><p>Graphene forms a 2D honeycomb lattice. Let us first consider the Wigner- Seitz (WS) unit cell (rhombus, dotted lines shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>(a)). The potential energy <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x154.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is lattice-periodic:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula260"><label>(31)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x155.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where the position vector <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in the potential field <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x157.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> can be represented by Bravais vectors with the primitive (non-orthogonal) basis vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x157.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and integers<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x157.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula261"><label>(32)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x160.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In the field theoretical formulation, the field point <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x161.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula262"><label>(33)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x162.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the point defined within the standard WS unit cell. Equation (31) describes the (2D) lattice periodicity but does not establish the 2D <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector of a Bloch electron in graphene if we choose the non-Cartesian coordinates system. Thus the WS unit cell is not appropriate when one deals with graphene transport problem, which is explained below.</p><p>We assume that the wave packet is composed of superposable plane-waves characterized by the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x165.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vectors. The superposability is the basic property of the Schr&#246;dinger wave equation. The Schr&#246;dinger wave equation for a Bloch electron (wave packet) is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula263"><label>(34)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x166.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x167.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the effective electron mass. The Bravais vectors for the rhombic lattice, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x167.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x168.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, are given by Equation (32) and the system is lattice-periodic, cp. Equation (31). The Bloch theorem can be expressed in the form:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula264"><label>(35)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x169.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in the Bravais lattice. The theorem in 1D can be proved elementarily [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref6">6</xref>] . If an oblique lattice is considered and a set of nonorthogonal basis vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are introduced for a 2D Bravais vector, cp. Equation (32), there are no 2D Fourier transform available since there is no 2D <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector to satisfy the periodicity condition for the Bloch wave, which must be of the form (35). Thus, the WS unit cell model for graphene is not suitable when one considers the electron dynamics in graphene.</p><p>The wave function must be Fourier-analyzable. In the rhombic system, however, if we choose the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-axis, say along<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then the potential energy field <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is periodic in the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-direction, but it is aperiodic in the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-direction (cp. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>(a)) since these basis vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x178.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are not orthogonal each other. Thus, if we choose the rhombic unit cell for graphene, we cannot express <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x178.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>- vectors satisfying the condition for the Bloch wave (35). Then, there is no 2D <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x178.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>space spanned by 2D <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x178.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vectors of Bloch waves if we choose the rhombic unit cell. If we omit the kinetic energy term, then we can still use Equation (31) and obtain the ground state energy (except the zero-point energy).</p><p>Ashcroft and Mermin (AM) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref6">6</xref>] introduced a translation operator <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that acting on any field <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x183.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> it shifts its argument by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x183.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x184.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula265"><label>(36)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x185.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>They used</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula266"><label>(37)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x186.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>to establish Equation (35). The translation operator <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x187.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> can be expressed in terms of a differential operator:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula267"><label>(38)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x188.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>as seen from<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x189.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. If the Bravais vector <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x189.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x190.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is given in</p><p>terms of the orthogonal basis vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x191.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in the Cartesian coordinates and choose the rectangular unit cell (cp. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(a)) as in Equation (34), then Equation (37) is satisfied, meaning that the Bloch wave for a rectangular unit cell can be expressed in terms of the Bloch wave (35).</p><p>If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is written in terms of nonorthogonal<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a product of differential operators <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which does not commute with the Laplacian <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in the Hamiltonian operator<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x198.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Hence, we can not establish Fourier-analyzable 2D <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x198.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x199.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vectors when we choose the rhombic unit cell for graphene. In actual calculations, Equation (37) is valid for the Bloch wave (35), where the Bravais vectors are expressed by the orthogonal basis vectors in the Cartesian coordinates. It should be noted that for an infinite lattice the periodic boundary is the only acceptable boundary condition for the Fourier transformation. AM’s second proof [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref6">6</xref>] also fails in 2D if the Bravais vector <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x198.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x199.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x200.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is expressed in nonorthogonal base vectors. This is so because Laplacian terms cannot be handled in non-Cartesian (oblique) coordinates. AM's Equation (8.36) does not hold. We must choose the rectangular unit cell in order to establish the Bloch plane waves [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref13">13</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref14">14</xref>] for the “electron” in 2D.</p><p>We assume that the “electron” (“hole”') (wave packet) has the charge <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and a size of the rectangular unit cell, generated above (below) the Fermi energy<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x202.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. It was shown [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref7">7</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref15">15</xref>] that (a) the “electron” and the “hole” have different charge distribution and different effective masses, (b) that the “electron” and “hole” move in different easy channels, (c) that the “electrons” and “holes” are thermally excited with different activation energies, and (d) that the “electron” activation energy <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x202.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x203.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is smaller than the “hole” activation energy<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x202.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x203.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula268"><label>(39)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x205.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Thus, “electrons” are the majority carriers in graphene. The thermally activated electron densities are then given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula269"><label>(40)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x206.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x207.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and 2 represent the “electron” and “hole”, respectively. The pre- factor <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x207.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x208.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the density at the high-temperature limit. Magnetotransport ex- periments by Zhang et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref16">16</xref>] indicate that the “electrons” are the majority carriers in graphene. Thus, our theory based on the rectangular unit cell model is agreement with experiments.</p><p>At finite temperature phonons are present in the system. The excitation of phonons can be discussed based on the same rectangular unit cell introduced for the conduction electrons. We note that phonons can be discussed naturally based on the orthogonal unit cells. It is difficult to describe phonons in the WS cell model.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Results and Discussion</title><p>Based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model, we obtained the band disper- sion of graphene by applying the tight-binding theory of Reich et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref8">8</xref>] . The obtained (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-) band structure based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model for graphene computed from Equations (29) and (30) is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>, where the nearest-neighbor hopping parameters <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are taken from the values obtained by the ab initio calculation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref8">8</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref17">17</xref>] :<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x212.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x212.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x213.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x212.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x213.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x214.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. This 3D figure illustrates the conduction and the valence band within the first Brillouin zone. The two crossing points P and Q indicated in the figure are of particular importance for the physics of graphene.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref> shows the energy band profile along the high symmetric points (indicated by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x215.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, X, Y, and W) of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell in reciprocal</p><fig id="fig3"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref></label><caption><title> (Color online) Band structure of graphene based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model. The energy is maximal at the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x217.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-point in the conduction band, while there is a saddle-point at the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x217.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x218.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-point in the valence band in the first BZ. The display shows the linear dispersion structure around the crossing-points P and Q, at which<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x217.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x218.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x219.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x216.png"/></fig><fig id="fig4"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref></label><caption><title> (Color online) Band profile along the symmetric points of graphene for the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model. One of the cross in points (so-called Dirac points) is indicated by P. Inset is the 1st Brillouin zone of the rectangular unit cell model. Conduction bands (red and blue) are computed from Equation (29) while valence bands (black and green) are computed from Equation (30). Note that the band profile is plotted within the one quarter of the first Brillouin zone</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x220.png"/></fig><p>space. There are two crossing points P and Q in the first BZ (cp. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>), at which the band energy is crossing (i.e.,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x221.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>), suggesting that graphene is a zero gap semiconductor.</p><p>Let us take a close look at the behavior of the band energy close to the crossing points, at which the band energy equals to zero. The conduction and valence bands are degenerate at this point. The dispersion relation for small momenta <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x222.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> near the crossing points <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x222.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x223.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x222.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x223.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x224.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is given by Taylor expanding the band energy around the points P and Q, resulting in a unique linear energy dispersion:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.74995-formula270"><label>(41)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x225.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x226.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is now in spherical coordinates (their origin is now at the points P and Q), <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x226.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x227.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>the Fermi velocity given by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x226.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x227.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x228.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x230.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. This particular band structure re- sembles the physics of massless Dirac fermions with a velocity approximately 300 times smaller than the speed of light. Near the crossing point P in the first Brillouin zone, the linear dispersion (Equation (41)) is clearly seen in the plot in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> for the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model for graphene. The linear dispersion for small <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x230.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x231.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> also holds for the crossing point Q as well.</p><p>The second BZ of the reciprocal lattice for the rectangular 4-atom unit cell is shown by the shaded area in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>. The high symmetric points in the reciprocal lattice of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell are indicated by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x232.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, X, Y,</p><fig id="fig5"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref></label><caption><title> (Color online) The linear dispersion near the point P in the first BZ of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell, where the two bands (valence and conduction) cross each other. The energy is maximal at the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-point, while there is a saddle point at the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>- point of the first BZ. The linear dispersion relation (red lines) holds for the small <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x236.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> near the so-called Dirac point, while the actual bands (black lines) deviate from the linearity near<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x236.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x237.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x233.png"/></fig><fig id="fig6"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref></label><caption><title> The first Brillouin zone (rectangular) and the second Brillouin (shaded) zone of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell. The region of the first and second BZ’s (i.e., the hexagonal region) of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell is identical to the first BZ of the Wigner-Seitz 2-atom unit cell</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x238.png"/></fig><p>and W, while those in the reciprocal lattice of the 2-atom unit cell are indicated by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x239.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, M and K. The Dirac points of the Wigner-Seitz 2-atom unit cell are indicated by K and K’ in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>, while the crossing (so-called Dirac) points of the first BZ of the 4-atom unit cell are located at the points P, Q in the first BZ of the 4-atom unit cell. Note that the first Brillouin zone of the Wigner-Seitz 2-atom unit cell is identical to the region of the first and second Brillouin zone of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell (hexagon. cp. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>). The crossing points, P and Q, in the first Brillouin zone of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell correspond to the Dirac points, K and K’ of the Wigner-Seitz 2-atom unit cell since the energy band structure of the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model is identical to the folded band structure of the 2-atom unit cell model along the boundary of the first BZ of the 4-atom unit cell model.</p><p>The approximate results (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bands) obtained in this paper are based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model for graphene by using tight-binding calculations, where only the nearest-neighbor hopping is taken into account for the transport of Bloch electrons. The horizontal <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> line shows the chemical potential. Below the chemical potential, the states are all occupied and the conduction states are above it. The chemical potential is at the points labeled P and Q in the first BZ, where the valence and conduction bands are crossing. The bands with the lowest energy are from the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bands in the planes between the carbon atoms. Electrons in the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x243.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bands are tightly bound. The energy bands near the chemical potential are from the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x243.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x244.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bands. They are formed from the carbon orbital<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x243.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x244.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x245.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which projects above and below the plane of graphene. These <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x243.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x244.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x245.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x246.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-bands are well described by a nearest-neighbor tight-binding calcula- tions based on the 4-atom unit cell model.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>6. Conclusions and Some Remarks</title><p>The current authors proposed a rectangular 4-atom unit cell model for graphene [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref7">7</xref>] . Based on this model, we obtained the band energy by applying the tight- binding approach employed by Reich et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref8">8</xref>] . We proved the band structure based on the rectangular 4-atom unit cell model for graphene gives the same band structure of graphene based on the prevalent graphene model based on the Wigner-Seitz 2-atom unit cell model.</p><p>The rectangular 4-atom unit cell for graphene has the sides perpendicular to each other (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>). The <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x247.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x247.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x248.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is defined as in Equation (1) but with the orthogonal unit vector, and the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x247.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x248.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x249.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is obtained as the Fourier conjugate of the position vector<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x247.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x248.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x249.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x250.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>The transport electrons in graphene originating from the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-band can be described by the 2D Bloch <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector defined in the proposed rectangular unit cell. We showed that the energy dispersion relation near the Dirac points (small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>) shows the linear dependence of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (see Equation (41)).</p><p>A material (density) wave such as a phonon wave can be presented by a traveling wave function of the form: <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>with C = material density, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>= angular frequency, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x257.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector. The direction of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x257.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x258.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> points to the direction of the traveling plane wave.</p><p>In the currently prevailing theory [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref4">4</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref8">8</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref10">10</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref11">11</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref17">17</xref>] the solid state theory dealing with a hexagonal crystal starts with a primitive non- orthogonal unit cell, the 2-atom unit cell. This theoretical model has difficulties in particular for a superconductor. The ground state of a superconductor must be condensed in a single particle-state in accordance with Nernst’s theorem (the third law of thermodynamics). Many fermions have a distribution in energy and hence a many-fermion system cannot be a superconductor. Only many-boson system can be a superconductor.</p><p>In the prevailing theory [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref4">4</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref8">8</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref10">10</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref11">11</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref17">17</xref>] a 2-atom unit cell model is used to set up <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x259.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vectors with non-orthogonal unit vectors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x259.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x260.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x259.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x260.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x261.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. A Bloch <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x259.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x260.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x261.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x262.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-vector is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x259.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x260.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x261.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x262.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/14-7503089x263.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> constructed with the Born-von Karman boundary condition [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.74995-ref6">6</xref>] . But this vector is not useful in dealing with a superconducting intercalation graphite compound.</p><p>In the present work we have shown that the non-orthogonal 2-atom and orthogonal 4-atom models give the same band energies in the mean field appro- ximation. In separate publication we report the superconductivity in graphite intercalation compounds C<sub>8</sub>K, C<sub>6</sub>Ca and in compound MgB<sub>2</sub>.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Suzuki, A., Tanabe, M. and Fujita, S. (2017) Electronic Band Structure of Graphene Based on the Rectangular 4-Atom Unit Cell. Journal of Modern Physics, 8, 607-621. https://doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2017.84041</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.74995-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Geim, A.K. and Noboselov, K.S. 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