• 文献标题:   Collective excitations in a large-d model for graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GUINEA F, LE DOUSSAL P, WIESE KJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   CSIC
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.89.125428
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We consider a model of Dirac fermions coupled to flexural phonons to describe a graphene sheet fluctuating in dimension 2 + d. We derive the self-consistent screening equations for the quantum problem, exact in the limit of large d. We first treat the membrane alone, and work out the quantum to classical and harmonic to anharmonic crossovers. For the coupled electron-membrane problem, we calculate the dressed two-particle propagators of the elastic and electron interactions and find that it exhibits a collective mode which becomes unstable at some wave vector qc for large enough coupling g. The saddle-point analysis, exact at large d, indicates that this instability corresponds to spontaneous and simultaneous appearance of Gaussian curvature and electron puddles. The relevance to ripples in graphene is discussed.