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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 NN 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 NN expansion, but to all orders in e2Ne^2N, 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}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures (replaced with revised version)