Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2008-09-05
Eur. Phys. J. B 68 (2009) 537
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
5 figures, 5 pages
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjb/e2009-00128-1
Renormalization is one of the basic notions of condensed matter physics. Based on the concept of renormalization, the Landau's {\em Fermi liquid} theory has been able to explain, why despite the presence of Coulomb interactions, the free electron theory works so well for simple metals with extended Fermi surface (FS). The recent synthesis of graphene has provided the condensed matter physicists with a low energy laboratory of Dirac fermions where instead of a FS, one has two Fermi points. Many exciting phenomena in graphene can be successfully interpreted in terms of free Dirac electrons. In this paper, employing dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), we show that an interacting Dirac sea is essentially an effective free Dirac theory. This observation suggests the notion of {\em Dirac liquid} as a fixed point of interacting 2+1 dimensional Dirac fermions. We find one more fixed point at strong interactions describing a Mott insulating state, and address the nature of semi-metal to insulator (SMIT) transition in this system.
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