Power law Kohn anomalies and the excitonic transition in graphene
arXiv:1202.5706 · doi:10.1016/j.ssc.2012.04.057
Abstract
Dirac electrons in graphene in the presence of Coulomb interactions of strength have been shown to display power law behavior with dependent exponents in certain correlation functions, which we call the mass susceptibilities of the system. In this work, we first discuss how this phenomenon is intimately related to the excitonic insulator transition, showing the explicit relation between the gap equation and response function approaches to this problem. We then provide a general computation of these mass susceptibilities in the ladder approximation, and present an analytical computation of the static exponent within a simplified kernel model, obtaining . Finally we emphasize that the behavior of these susceptibilities provides new experimental signatures of interactions, such as power law Kohn anomalies in the dispersion of several phonons, which could potentially be used as a measurement of .
Extended version of 1109.6375
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