$\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric three-dimensional QED in the large-$N_f$ limit and applications to super-graphene

Abstract

We study $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric three-dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics with $N_f$ two-component fermions. Due to the infra-red (IR) softening of the photon, $\ep$-scalar and photino propagators, the theory flows to an interacting fixed point deep in the IR, $p_E\ll e^2{N}_f/8$, where $p_E$ is the euclidean momentum and $e$ the electric charge. At next-to-leading order in the $1/N_f$-expansion, we find that the flow of the dimensionless effective coupling constant $\overline{\al}$ is such that: $\overline{\al} \ra 8/\big(N_f \,(1+C/N_f)\big) \approx (8/N_f)(1-0.4317/N_f)$ where $C=2(12-{\pi }^2)/{\pi }^2$. Hence, the non-trivial IR fixed point is stable with respect to quantum corrections. Various properties of the theory are explored and related via a mapping to the ones of a $\mathcal{N}=1$ model of super-graphene. In particular, we derive the interaction correction coefficient to the optical conductivity of super-graphene, $C_{\mathrm{sg}}=(12-{\pi }^2)/(2\pi )=0.3391$, which is six times larger than in the non-supersymmetric case, $C_{\mathrm{g}}=(92-9{\pi }^2)/(18\pi )=0.0561$.

The paper has been withdrawn at the request of Albin James. Nevertheless, Sofian Teber and Simon Metayer fully assume the content of the paper

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