• 文献标题:   Absence of Wigner crystallization in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DAHAL HP, JOGLEKAR YN, BEDELL KS, BALATSKY AV
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Boston Coll
  • 被引频次:   47
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.74.233405
  • 出版年:   2006

▎ 摘  要

Graphene, a single sheet of graphite, has attracted tremendous attention due to recent experiments which demonstrate that carriers in it are described by massless fermions with linear dispersion. In this Brief Report, we consider the possibility of Wigner crystallization in graphene in the absence of an external magnetic field. We show that the ratio of potential and kinetic energy is independent of the carrier density, the tuning parameter that usually drives Wigner crystallization, and find that for given material parameters (dielectric constant and Fermi velocity), Wigner crystallization is not possible. We comment on how these results change in the presence of a strong external magnetic field.