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Scale-invariant puddles in Graphene: Geometric properties of electron-hole distribution at the Dirac point

arXiv:1609.07096 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.95.032112

Abstract

We characterize the carrier density profile of the ground state of graphene in the presence of particle-particle interaction and random charged impurity for zero gate voltage. We provide detailed analysis on the resulting spatially inhomogeneous electron gas taking into account the particle-particle interaction and the remote coulomb disorder on an equal footing within the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac theory. We present some general features of the carrier density probability measure of the graphene sheet. We also show that, when viewed as a random surface, the resulting electron-hole puddles at zero chemical potential show peculiar self-similar statistical properties. Although the disorder potential is chosen to be Gaussian, we show that the charge field is non-Gaussian with unusual Kondev relations which can be regarded as a new class of two-dimensional (2D) random-field surfaces.

12 pages, 10 figures

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