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Multilogarithmic velocity renormalization in graphene

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-06-22 v2

Abstract

We reexamine the effect of long-range Coulomb interactions on the quasiparticle velocity in graphene. Using a nonperturbative functional renormalization group approach with partial bosonization in the forward scattering channel and momentum transfer cutoff scheme, we calculate the quasiparticle velocity, v(k)v (k), and the quasiparticle residue, ZZ, with frequency-dependent polarization. One of our most striking results is that v(k)ln[Ck(α)/k]v ( k ) \propto \ln [ C_k (\alpha) / k ] where the momentum- and interaction-dependent cutoff scale Ck(α)C_k (\alpha) vanishes logarithmically for k0k \rightarrow 0. Here kk is measured with respect to one of the charge neutrality (Dirac) points and α=2.2\alpha=2.2 is the strength of dimensionless bare interaction. Moreover, we also demonstrate that the so-obtained multilogarithmic singularity is reconcilable with the perturbative expansion of v(k)v (k) in powers of the bare interaction.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.01188,
  title  = {Multilogarithmic velocity renormalization in graphene},
  author = {Anand Sharma and Peter Kopietz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01188},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B

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