• 文献标题:   Eliashberg theory of excitonic insulating transition in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG JR, LIU GZ
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984 EI 1361-648X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1088/0953-8984/23/15/155602
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

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 equation self-consistently to the equation of the vacuum polarization function. Including the fermion gap into the polarization function increases the effective strength of the Coulomb interaction because it reduces the screening effects due to the collective particle-hole excitations. Although this procedure does not change the critical point, it leads to a significant enhancement of the dynamical fermion gap in the excitonic insulating phase. The validity of the Eliashberg theory is justified by showing that the vertex corrections are suppressed at the large N limit.