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Fermi velocity renormalization and dynamical gap generation in graphene

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-01-13 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the renormalization of the Fermi velocity by the long-range Coulomb interactions between the charge carriers in the Dirac-cone approximation for the effective low-energy description of the electronic excitations in graphene at half filling. Solving the coupled system of Dyson-Schwinger equations for the dressing functions in the corresponding fermion propagator with various approximations for the particle-hole polarization we observe that Fermi velocity renormalization effects generally lead to a considerable increase of the critical coupling for dynamical gap generation and charge-density wave formation at the semimetal-insulator transition.

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@article{arxiv.1308.6199,
  title  = {Fermi velocity renormalization and dynamical gap generation in graphene},
  author = {C. Popovici and C. S. Fischer and L. von Smekal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6199},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures, v2: corrections added, version published in PRB

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