• 文献标题:   Soft pair excitations and double-log divergences due to carrier interactions in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LEWANDOWSKI C, LEVITOV LS
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   MIT
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.97.115423
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Interactions between charge carriers in graphene lead to logarithmic renormalization of observables mimicking the behavior known in (3+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED). Here we analyze soft electron-hole (e-h) excitations generated as a result of fast charge dynamics, a direct analog of the signature QED effect-multiple soft photons produced by the QED vacuum shakeup. We show that such excitations are generated in photon absorption, when a photogenerated high-energy e-h pair cascades down in energy and gives rise to multiple soft e-h excitations. This fundamental process ismanifested in a double-log divergence in the emission rate of soft pairs and a characteristic power-lawdivergence in their energy spectrum of the form 1/omega ln(omega/Delta). Strong carrier-carrier interactions make pair production a prominent pathway in the photoexcitation cascade.