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We develop a general hydrodynamic framework for computing direct current thermal and electric transport in a strongly interacting finite temperature quantum system near a Lorentz-invariant quantum critical point. Our framework is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 Andrew Lucas , Jesse Crossno , Kin Chung Fong , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev

We consider electronic transport accross one-dimensional heterostructures described by the Dirac equation. We discuss the cases where both the velocity and the mass are position dependent. We show how to generalize the Dirac Hamiltonian in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-02 N. M. R. Peres

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the quasiparticle dispersion of a graphene bilayer within the Hartree-Fock-Thomas-Fermi theory by using a four-bands model. We find that the electronic fluid can be described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-21 S. Viola Kusminskiy , D. K. Campbell , A. H. Castro Neto

Theory predicts that graphene under uniaxial compressive strain in an armchair direction should undergo a topological phase transition from a semimetal into an insulator. Due to the change of the hopping integrals under compression, both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 J. Feilhauer , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

We develop a microscopic large-$N$ theory of electron-electron interaction corrections to multi-legged Feynman diagrams describing second- and third-order nonlinear response functions. Our theory, which reduces to the well-known random…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-25 Habib Rostami , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

Kohn's theorem and the $f$-sum rule are powerful theorems, the first applying to translationally invariant single-band electronic systems with parabolic electronic dispersion relations and the second applying to materials in general, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Robert E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Graphene is described at low-energy by a massless Dirac equation whose eigenstates have definite chirality. We show that the tendency of Coulomb interactions in lightly doped graphene to favor states with larger net chirality leads to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-06-13 Yafis Barlas , T. Pereg-Barnea , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

The excitations in graphene and some other materials are described by two-dimensional massless Dirac equation with applied external potential of some kind. Solutions of this zero energy equation are built analytically for a wide class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 M. V. Ioffe , D. N. Nishnianidze

Many-body interactions in crystalline solids can be conveniently described in terms of quasiparticles with strongly renormalized masses as compared to those of non-interacting particles. Examples of extreme mass renormalization are on the…

Starting from the graphene lattice tight-binding Hamiltonian with an on-site U and long-range Coulomb repulsion, we derive an interacting continuum Dirac theory governing the low-energy behavior of graphene in an applied magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The effective theory for bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to parallel/in-plane magnetic fields, is derived. With a sizable magnetic field the trigonal warping becomes irrelevant, and one ends up with two Dirac points in the vicinity of each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Bitan Roy , Kun Yang

In this article we consider a graphene sheet that is folded in various compact geometries with arbitrary topology described by a certain genus, $g$. While the Hamiltonian of these systems is defined on a lattice one can take the continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiannis K. Pachos , Agapitos Hatzinikitas , Michael Stone

Undistorted monolayer graphene has energy bands which cross at protected Dirac points. It elastically deforms and much research has assumed the Dirac description persists, now in a curved space and coupled to a gauge field related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Matthew M. Roberts , Toby Wiseman

In a Dirac semimetal, the conduction and valence bands contact only at discrete (Dirac) points in the Brillouin zone (BZ) and disperse linearly in all directions around these critical points. Including spin, the low energy effective theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 S. M. Young , S. Zaheer , J. C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , A. M. Rappe

We calculate the interaction energy and force between atoms and molecules and single-walled carbon nanotubes described by the Dirac model of graphene. For this purpose the Lifshitz-type formulas adapted for the case of cylindrical geometry…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Yu. V. Churkin , G. L. Klimchitskaya , A. B. Fedortsov , V. A. Yurova

Using the renormalized-ring-diagram approximation, we study the compressibility of the interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. The compressibility is equivalent to the spin susceptibility apart from a constant factor. The chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The non-retarded Casimir interaction (van der Waals interaction) between two free standing graphene sheets as well as between a graphene sheet and a substrate is determined. An exact analytical expression is given for the dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Bo E. Sernelius

The Landau-Fermi liquid picture for quasiparticles assumes that charge carriers are dressed by many-body interactions, forming one of the fundamental theories of solids. Whether this picture still holds for a semimetal like graphene at the…

It is shown that systems described by Harper's equation exhibit a Dirac point at the center of the spectrum whenever the field parameter is a fraction of even denominator. The Dirac point is formed by the touching of two subbands, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 F. Claro