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Quantum critical transport in clean graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2008-08-14 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We describe electrical transport in ideal single-layer graphene at zero applied bias. There is a crossover from collisionless transport at frequencies larger than k_B T/hbar (T is the temperature) to collision-dominated transport at lower frequencies. The d.c. conductivity is computed by the solution of a quantum Boltzmann equation. Due to a logarithmic singularity in the collinear scattering amplitude (a consequence of relativistic dispersion in two dimensions) quasi-particles and -holes moving in the same direction tend to an effective equilibrium distribution whose parameters depend on the direction of motion. This property allows us to find the non-equilibrium distribution functions and the quantum critical conductivity exactly to leading order in 1/|ln(alpha)| where alpha is the coupling constant characterizing the Coulomb interactions.

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@article{arxiv.0802.4289,
  title  = {Quantum critical transport in clean graphene},
  author = {Lars Fritz and Joerg Schmalian and Markus Mueller and Subir Sachdev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.4289},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure; (v2) added comment on hydrodynamic long-time tails

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