Screening effects on the excitonic instability in graphene
arXiv:1103.3650 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.085420
Abstract
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 α= e^2/4πv_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 α_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 α_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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