• 文献标题:   Unconventional Quasiparticle Lifetime in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GONZALEZ J, PERFETTO E
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   CSIC
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.176802
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

We address the question of how large can the lifetime of electronic states be at low energies in graphene, below the scale of the optical phonon modes. For this purpose, we study the many-body effects at the K point of the spectrum, which induce a strong coupling between electron-hole pairs and out-of-plane phonons. We show the existence of a soft branch of hybrid states below the electron-hole continuum when graphene is close to the charge neutrality point, leading to an inverse lifetime proportional to the cube of the quasiparticle energy. This implies that a crossover should be observed in transport properties, from such a slow decay rate to the lower bound given at very low energies by the decay into acoustic phonons.