• 文献标题:   Power law Kohn anomalies and the excitonic transition in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DE JUAN F, FERTIG HA
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, phonon, coulomb interaction, many body effect
  • 出版物名称:   SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   0038-1098 EI 1879-2766
  • 通讯作者地址:   Indiana Univ
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.ssc.2012.04.057
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

Dirac electrons in graphene in the presence of Coulomb interactions of strength beta have been shown to display power law behavior with beta dependent exponents in certain correlation functions, which we call the mass susceptibilities of the system. In this work, we first discuss how this phenomenon is intimately related to the excitonic insulator transition, showing the explicit relation between the gap equation and response function approaches to this problem. We then provide a general computation of these mass susceptibilities in the ladder approximation, and present an analytical computation of the static exponent within a simplified kernel model, obtaining eta(0) = root 1-beta/beta(c). Finally we emphasize that the behavior of these susceptibilities provides new experimental signatures of interactions, such as power law Kohn anomalies in the dispersion of several phonons, which could potentially be used as a measurement of beta. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.