• 文献标题:   Absence of dynamical gap generation in suspended graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG JR, LIU GZ
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  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   35
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/043036
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

There is an interesting proposal that the long-range Coulomb interaction in suspended graphene can generate a dynamical gap, which leads to a semimetal-insulator phase transition. We revisit this problem by solving the self-consistent Dyson-Schwinger equations of wave function renormalization and fermion gap. In order to satisfy the Ward identity, a suitable vertex function is introduced. The impact of singular velocity renormalization and that of dynamical screening on gap generation are both included in this formalism, and prove to be very important. We obtain a critical interaction strength, 3.2 < alpha(c) < 3.3, which is larger than the physical value alpha = 2.16 for suspended graphene. It therefore turns out that suspended graphene is a semimetal, rather than an insulator, at zero temperature.