Anomalous thermodynamics of Coulomb interacting massless Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
It is argued that the specific heat of massless Dirac fermions in 2 spatial dimensions interacting with 1/r Coulomb interactions is suppressed logarithmically relative to its non-interacting counterpart. The (dimensionless) coefficient of the logarithm is calculated analytically in the leading order in large expansion, but to all orders in , a procedure which takes into account finite temperature screening. Experimental observation of this effect is expected to occur in a single layer graphene embedded in a dielectric medium. Its dependence on the dielectric constant is calculated analytically.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701145,
title = {Anomalous thermodynamics of Coulomb interacting massless Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions},
author = {Oskar Vafek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701145},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures (replaced with revised version)