Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2008-12-28
Pis'ma v ZhETF, vol. 87, iss. 1, pp. 61-65 (2008); Translation:JETP Letters, vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 55-59 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Submitted on November 26, 2007, Published on January 10, 2008. Several misprints in the in the original text are corrected
Scientific paper
10.1007/s11448-008-1013-9
We consider the pairing of electrons and holes due to their Coulomb attraction in two parallel, independently gated graphene layers, separated by a barrier. At weak coupling, there exist the BCS-like pair-condensed state. Despite the fact that electrons and holes behave like massless Dirac fermions, the problem of BCS-like electron-hole pairing in graphene bilayer turns out to be rather similar to that in usual coupled semiconductor quantum wells. The distinctions are due to Berry phase of electronic wave functions and different screening properties. We estimate values of the gap in one-particle excitation spectrum for different interlayer distances and carrier concentrations. Influence of disorder is discussed. At large enough dielectric susceptibility of surrounding medium, the weak coupling regime holds even at arbitrarily small carrier concentrations. Localized electron-hole pairs are absent in graphene, thus the behavior of the system versus coupling strength is cardinally different from usual BCS-BEC crossover.
Lozovik Yu. E.
Sokolik A. A.
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