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Gap generation in ABC-stacked multilayer graphene: screening vs band flattening

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-12-04 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We calculate the dynamical polarization function and solve a self-consistent gap equation in the random phase approximation in undoped ABC-stacked n-layer graphene. We find that the gap is maximal in trilayer graphene and decreases monotonously for n4n \ge 4 because the effects of screening in the gap equation win over those connected with the flattening of electron bands as n increases.

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@article{arxiv.1310.1040,
  title  = {Gap generation in ABC-stacked multilayer graphene: screening vs band flattening},
  author = {Junji Jia and E. V. Gorbar and V. P. Gusynin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1040},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures; comments added; typos corrected; references revised; to match the published version