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Scaling properties of mono-layer graphene away from the Dirac point

Statistical Mechanics 2018-07-18 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The statistical properties of the carrier density profile of graphene in the ground state in the presence particle-particle interaction and random charged impurity in zero gate voltage has been recently obtained by Najafi \textit{et al.} (Phys. Rev E95, 032112 (2017)). The non-zero chemical potential (μ\mu) in gated graphene has non-trivial effects on electron-hole puddles, since it generates mass in the Dirac action and destroys the scaling behaviors of the effective Thomas-Fermi-Dirac theory. We provide detailed analysis on the resulting spatially inhomogeneous system in the framework of the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac theory for the Gaussian (white noise) disorder potential. We show that, the chemical potential in this system as a random surface, destroys the self-similarity, and the charge field is non-Gaussian. We find that the two-body correlation functions are factorized to two terms: a pure function of the chemical potential and a pure function of the distance. The spatial dependence of these correlation functions is double-logarithmic, e.g. the two-point density correlation D2(r,μ)μ2exp[(aDlnlnrβD)αD]D_2(r,\mu)\propto \mu^2\exp\left[-\left(-a_D\ln\ln r^{\beta_D}\right)^{\alpha_D} \right] (αD=1.82\alpha_D=1.82, βD=0.263\beta_D=0.263 and aD=0.955a_D=0.955). The Fourier power spectrum function behaves like ln(S(q))=βSaS(lnq)aS+2lnμ\ln(S(q))=-\beta_S^{-a_S}\left(\ln q \right)^{a_S}+2\ln \mu (aS=3.0±0.1a_S=3.0\pm 0.1 and βS=2.08±0.03\beta_S=2.08\pm 0.03) in contrast to the ordinary Gaussian rough surfaces for which aS=1a_S=1 and βS=12(1+α)1\beta_S=\frac{1}{2}(1+\alpha)^{-1}, (α\alpha being the roughness exponent). The geometrical properties are however similar to the un-gated (μ=0\mu=0) case, with the exponents that are reported in the text.

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@article{arxiv.1803.10617,
  title  = {Scaling properties of mono-layer graphene away from the Dirac point},
  author = {M. N. Najafi and N. Ahadpour and J. Cheraghalizadeh and H. Dashti-Naserabadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10617},
  year   = {2018}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1609.07096