The tunneling density-of-states of interacting massless Dirac fermions

Details The tunneling density-of-states of interacting massless Dirac fermions The tunneling density-of-states of interacting massless Dirac fermions

2011-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3822v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 3 figures, submitted

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We calculate the tunneling density-of-states (DOS) of a disorder-free two-dimensional interacting electron system with a massless-Dirac band Hamiltonian. The DOS exhibits two main features: i) linear growth at large energies with a slope that is suppressed by quasiparticle velocity enhancement, and ii) a rich structure of plasmaron peaks which appear at negative bias voltages in an n-doped sample and at positive bias voltages in a p-doped sample. We predict that the DOS at the Dirac point is non-zero even in the absence of disorder because of electron-electron interactions, and that it is then accurately proportional to the Fermi energy. The finite background DOS observed at the Dirac point of graphene sheets and topological insulator surfaces can therefore be an interaction effect rather than a disorder effect.

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