Coulomb interaction and semimetal-insulator transition in graphene

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2010.05.011MaRDI QIDQ455236zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wei Li, Guo-Zhu Liu

Publication date 4 October 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2365

zbMATH Keywords

massless Dirac fermionnon-Fermi liquid behaviorsemimetal-insulator transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Statistical mechanics of metals (82D35)

Abstract: The strong Coulomb interaction between massless Dirac fermions can drive a semimetal-insulator transition in single-layer graphene by dynamically generating an excitonic fermion gap. There is a critical interaction strength $lambd{a}_c$ that separates the semimetal phase from the insulator phase. We calculate the specific heat and susceptibility of the system and show that they exhibit distinct behaviors in the semimetal and insulator phases.

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