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Ground state properties of graphene in Hartree-Fock theory

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-04 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Other Condensed Matter math.MP

Abstract

We study the Hartree-Fock approximation of graphene in infinite volume, with instantaneous Coulomb interactions. First we construct its translation-invariant ground state and we recover the well-known fact that, due to the exchange term, the effective Fermi velocity is logarithmically divergent at zero momentum. In a second step we prove the existence of a ground state in the presence of local defects and we discuss some properties of the linear response to an external electric field. All our results are non perturbative.

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@article{arxiv.1203.5016,
  title  = {Ground state properties of graphene in Hartree-Fock theory},
  author = {Christian Hainzl and Mathieu Lewin and Christof Sparber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5016},
  year   = {2015}
}

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27 pages