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Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon material with a honeycomb lattice and Dirac-type low-energy spectrum. In a strong magnetic field, where Coulomb interactions dominate against disorder broadening, quantum Hall ferromagnetic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Naokazu Shibata , Kentaro Nomura

We consider a noncommutative description of graphene. This description consists of a Dirac equation for massless Dirac fermions plus noncommutative corrections, which are treated in the presence of an external magnetic field. We argue that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-16 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami , N. Dias , J. Prata

We investigate the dynamical breakdown of the chiral symmetry in the theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. We analyze the electron-hole vertex relevant for the dynamical gap generation in the ladder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 J. Gonzalez

We give a brief summary of the current status of the electron many-body problem in graphene. We claim that graphene has intrinsic dielectric properties which should dress the interactions among the quasiparticles, and may explain why the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-07 Bruno Uchoa , James P. Reed , Yu Gan , Young Il Joe , Diego Casa , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte

We analyse the interaction between charges and graphene layers. The electric polarisability of graphene induces a force, that can be described by an image charge. The analysis shows that graphene can be described as an imperfect conductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

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

Graphene exhibits unconventional two-dimensional electronic properties resulting from the symmetry of its quasiparticles, which leads to the concepts of pseudospin and electronic chirality. Here we report that scanning tunneling microscopy…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Brihuega , P. Mallet , C. Bena , S. Bose , C. Michaelis , L. Vitali , F. Varchon , L. Magaud , K. Kern , J. Y. Veuillen

We examine the 1/N expansion, where N is the number of two-component Dirac fermions, for Coulomb interactions in graphene with a gap of magnitude $\Delta = 2 m$. We find that for $N\alpha\gg1$, where $\alpha$ is graphene's "fine structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Valeri N. Kotov , Bruno Uchoa , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the realization in a model of graphene of the phenomenon whereby the tendency of gauge-field mediated interactions to break chiral symmetry spontaneously is greatly enhanced in an external magnetic field. We prove that, in the weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-09 Gordon W. Semenoff , Fei Zhou

The electronic energy spectrum of graphene electron subjected to a homogeneous magnetic field in the presence of a charged Coulomb impurity is studied analytically within two-dimensional Dirac-Weyl picture by using variational approach. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

We study the quasiparticle properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions when the many-body states possess a finite momentum density in the clean limit. The lack of Galilean invariance endows the many-body states at finite momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Inti Sodemann

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The low-energy theory of graphene exhibits spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking due to pairing of quasiparticles and holes, corresponding to a semimetal-insulator transition at strong Coulomb coupling. We report a Lattice Monte Carlo study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-18 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde

We study the energy of quasi-particles in graphene within the Hartree-Fock approximation. The quasi-particles are confined via an inhomogeneous magnetic field and interact via the Coulomb potential. We show that the associated functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-07 R. Egger , A. De Martino , H. Siedentop , E. Stockmeyer

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

When electrons are confined in two dimensions and subjected to strong magnetic fields, the Coulomb interactions between them become dominant and can lead to novel states of matter such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. In these liquids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kirill I. Bolotin , Fereshte Ghahari , Michael D. Shulman , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

We study quasiparticle dynamics in graphene exposed to a linearly-polarized electromagnetic wave of very large intensity. Low-energy transport in such system can be described by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 S. V. Syzranov , Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , F. Nori

We study Coulomb drag in double-layer graphene near the Dirac point. A particular emphasis is put on the case of clean graphene, with transport properties dominated by the electron-electron interaction. Using the quantum kinetic equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 M. Schütt , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. Titov , I. V. Gornyi , B. N. Narozhny , A. D. Mirlin

We study interacting Dirac quasiparticles in disordered graphene and find that an interplay between the unscreened Coulomb interactions and pseudo-relativistic quasiparticle kinematics can be best revealed in the ballistic regime, whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Khveshchenko

We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature regime the symmetry allowed spin orbit potential converts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele