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Phonon dispersions generically display non-analytic points, known as Kohn anomalies, due to electron-phonon interactions. We analyze this phenomenon for a zone boundary phonon in undoped graphene. When electron-electron interactions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-22 Fernando de Juan , Herbert A. Fertig

We demonstrate that in the presence of Coulomb interactions, electrons in graphene behave like a critical system, supporting power law correlations with interaction-dependent exponents. An asymptotic analysis shows that the origin of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-04 Jianhui Wang , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

Using quasi-time dependent semi-classical transport theory in RTA, we obtained coupled current equations in the presence of time varying field and based on general scattering mechanism $\tau \propto \mathcal{E}^{\beta}$. We find that close…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

We study excitonic effects in two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions with Coulomb interactions by solving the ladder approximation to the Bethe-Salpeter equation. It is found that the general 4-leg vertex has a power law behavior with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Jianhui Wang , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy , L. Brey

We suggest that physics underlying the recently observed removal of sublattice and spin degeneracies in graphene in a strong magnetic field describes a phase transition connected with the generation of an excitonic gap. The experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , S. G. Sharapov , I. A. Shovkovy

The strong Coulomb interaction between massless Dirac fermions can drive a semimetal-insulator transition in single-layer graphene by dynamically generating an excitonic fermion gap. There is a critical interaction strength $\lambda_c$ that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Wei Li , Guo-Zhu Liu

The strong long-range Coulomb interaction between massless Dirac fermions in graphene can drive a semimetal-insulator transition. We show that this transition is strongly suppressed when the Coulomb interaction is screened by such effects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Guo-Zhu Liu , Wei Li , Geng Cheng

We investigate the excitonic instability in the theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. We analyze the electron-hole vertex relevant for exciton condensation in the ladder approximation, showing that it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 J. Gonzalez

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the optical conductivity of graphene under applied bias and derive a generalization of Elliot's formula, commonly used for semiconductors, for the optical intensity. We show that {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 N. M. R. Peres , R. M. Ribeiro , A. H. Castro Neto

In this paper, we consider the spectral properties of the bilayer graphene with the local excitonic pairing interaction between the electrons and holes. We consider the generalized Hubbard model, which includes both intralayer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-22 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopeć

Electrons in graphene behave like Dirac fermions, permitting phenomena from high energy physics to be studied in a solid state setting. A key question is whether or not these Fermions are critically influenced by Coulomb correlations. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 James P. Reed , Bruno Uchoa , Young Il Joe , Yu Gan , Diego Casa , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte

We develop an ab initio framework that captures the impact of electron-electron and electron-hole interactions on phonon properties. This enables the inclusion of excitonic effects in the optical phonon dispersions and lifetimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Alberto Guandalini , Francesco Macheda , Giovanni Caldarelli , Francesco Mauri

Electron interactions in undoped bilayer graphene lead to instability of the gapless state, `which-layer' symmetry breaking, and energy gap opening at the Dirac point. In contrast to single layer graphene, the bilayer system exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

Significant excitonic effects were observed in graphene by measuring its optical conductivity in a broad spectral range including the two-dimensional {\pi}-band saddle-point singularities in the electronic structure. The strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

The effect of Coulomb interaction in an ensemble of Dirac fermions on the formation of superconducting pairing in monolayer and bilayer doped graphene is studied using the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism disregarding the Van der Waals potential of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-19 M. Yu. Kagan , V. A. Mitskan , M. M. Korovushkin

Dirac energy-dispersions are responsible of the extraordinary transport properties of graphene. This motivated the quest for engineering such energy dispersions also in photonics, where they have been predicted to lead to many exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Erik P. Navarro-Barón , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Alejandro González-Tudela

We analyze the Coulomb interacting problem in undoped graphene layers by using an excitonic variational ansatz. By minimizing the energy, we derive a gap equation which reproduces and extends known results. We show that a full treatment of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-27 J. Sabio , F. Sols , F. Guinea

A generalized Dirac equation is derived in order to describe charge carriers moving in corrugated graphene, which is the case for temperatures above 10{\deg}K due to the presence of flexural phonons. Such interaction is taken into account…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 Richard Kerner , Gerardo Naumis

The response of Dirac fermions to a Coulomb potential is predicted to differ significantly from the behavior of non-relativistic electrons seen in traditional atomic and impurity systems. Surprisingly, many key theoretical predictions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Yang Wang , Victor W. Brar , Andrey V. Shytov , Qiong Wu , William Regan , Hsin-Zon Tsai , Alex Zettl , Leonid S. Levitov , Michael F. Crommie

A sufficiently strong Coulomb interaction may open an excitonic fermion gap and thus drive a semimetal-insulator transition in graphene. In this paper, we study the Eliashberg theory of excitonic transition by coupling the fermion gap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu
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