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Electron-phonon bound states in graphene in a perpendicular magnetic field

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2013-01-21 v2

Abstract

The spectrum of electron-phonon complexes in a monolayer graphene is investigated in the presence of a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. Despite the small electron-phonon coupling, usual perturbation theory is inapplicable for calculation of the scattering amplitude near the threshold of the optical phonon emission. Our findings beyond perturbation theory show that the true spectrum near the phonon emission threshold is completely governed by new branches, corresponding to bound states of an electron and an optical phonon with a binding energy of the order of αω0\alpha \omega_{0} where α\alpha is the electron-phonon coupling and ω0\omega_{0} the phonon energy.

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@article{arxiv.1206.5107,
  title  = {Electron-phonon bound states in graphene in a perpendicular magnetic field},
  author = {J. Zhu and S. M. Badalyan and F. Peeters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5107},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett., 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table