Influence of Coulomb interaction on the anisotropic Dirac cone in graphene
arXiv:1309.6999 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.195404
Abstract
Anisotropic Dirac cones can appear in a number of correlated electron systems, such as cuprate superconductors and deformed graphene. We study the influence of long-range Coulomb interaction on the physical properties of an anisotropic graphene by using the renormalization group method and 1/N expansion, where N is the flavor of Dirac fermions. Our explicit calculations reveal that the anisotropic fermion velocities flow monotonously to an isotropic fixed point in the lowest energy limit in clean graphene. We then incorporate three sorts of disorders, including random chemical potential, random gauge potential, and random mass, and show that the interplay of Coulomb interaction and disorders can lead to rich and unusual behaviors. In the presence of strong Coulomb interaction and a random chemical potential, the fermion velocities are driven to vanish at low energies and the system turns out to be an exotic anisotropic insulator. In the presence of Coulomb interaction and other two types of disorders, the system flows to an isotropic low-energy fixed point more rapidly than the clean case, and exhibits non-Fermi liquid behaviors. We also investigate the nonperturbative effects of Coulomb interaction, focusing on how the dynamical gap is affected by the velocity anisotropy. It is found that the dynamical gap is enhanced (suppressed) as the fermion velocities decrease (increase), but is suppressed as the velocity anisotropy increases.
24 pages, 17 figures
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