Eliashberg theory of excitonic insulating transition in graphene

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2010-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2880v2

J.Phys.Condens.Matter 23:155602,2011

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

8 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/23/15/155602

A sufficiently strong Coulomb interaction may open an excitonic fermion gap and thus drive a semimetal-insulator transition in graphene. In this paper, we study the Eliashberg theory of excitonic transition by coupling the fermion gap equation self-consistently to the equation of vacuum polarization function. Including the fermion gap into polarization function increases the effective strength of Coulomb interaction because it reduces the screening effects due to the collective particle-hole excitations. Although this procedure does not change the critical point, it leads to a significant enhancement of the dynamical fermion gap in the excitonic insulating phase. The validity of the Eliashberg theory is justified by showing that the vertex corrections are suppressed at large $N$ limit.

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