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Fermi Liquid Theory of a Fermi Ring

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2013-05-29 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands characterized by an unusual ``mexican-hat'' dispersion. We focus on the metallic regime where the chemical potential lies in the ``mexican-hat'' in the conduction band, leading to a topologically non-trivial Fermi surface in the shape of a ring. We show that due to the unusual topology of the Fermi surface electron-electron interactions are greatly enhanced. We discuss the possibility of an instability towards a ferromagnetic phase due to this enhancement. We compute the electronic polarization function in the random phase approximation and show that, while at low energies the system behaves as a Fermi liquid (albeit with peculiar Friedel oscillations), at high frequencies it shows a highly anomalous response when compare to ordinary metals.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611468,
  title  = {Fermi Liquid Theory of a Fermi Ring},
  author = {T. Stauber and N. M. R. Peres and F. Guinea and A. H. Castro Neto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611468},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages, 10 figures