Screening effects on the excitonic instability in graphene

Details Screening effects on the excitonic instability in graphene Screening effects on the excitonic instability in graphene

2011-03-18

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3650v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 2 figures, more references added

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We investigate the excitonic instability in the theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. We analyze the electron-hole vertex relevant for exciton condensation in the ladder approximation, showing that it blows up at a critical value of the interaction strength \alpha = e^2/4\pi v_F sensitive to further many-body corrections. Under static screening of the interaction, we find that taking into account electron self-energy corrections increases the critical coupling to \alpha_c \approx 2.09, for a number N = 4 of two-component Dirac fermions. We show that the dynamical screening of the interaction has however the opposite effect of enhancing the instability, which turns out to develop then at \alpha_c \approx 0.99 for N = 4, bringing the question of whether that critical value can be reached by the effective coupling in real graphene samples at the low-energy scales of the exciton condensation.

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