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most citedUnitarity of theories containing fractional powers of the d'Alembertian operator

47 citations · 214 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

hep-th2021★ 6 cited

Influence of the four-fermion interactions in (2+1)D massive electrons system

Luis Fernández, Van Sérgio Alves, M. Gomes +2

The description of the electromagnetic interaction in two-dimensional Dirac materials, such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, in which electrons move in the plane a…

hep-th2020★ 3 cited

Dynamical Mass Generation in Pseudo Quantum Electrodynamics with Gross-Neveu Interaction at finite temperature

Luis Fernández, Reginaldo O. Corrêa, Van Sérgio Alves +2

We study the dynamical mass generation in Pseudo Quantum Electrodynamics (PQED) coupled to the Gross-Neveu (GN) interaction, in (2+1) dimensions, at both zero and finite temperatur…

hep-th2020★ 24 cited

Renormalization of the band gap in 2D materials through the competition between electromagnetic and four-fermion interactions

Luis Fernández, Van Sérgio Alves, Leandro O. Nascimento +3

Recently the renormalization of the band gap , in both WSe and MoS, has been experimentally measured as a function of the carrier concentration . The main result esta…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 15 cited

Superconducting and Pseudogap Transition Temperatures in High-Tc Cuprates and the Dependence on Pressure

E. C. Marino, Reginaldo O. Corrêa, R. Arouca +2

We derive analytic expressions for the critical temperatures of the superconducting (SC) and pseudogap (PG) transitions of the high-Tc cuprates as a function of doping. These are i…

hep-th2019★ 1 cited

Projected Proca Field Theory: a One-Loop Study

R. F. Ozela, Van Sérgio Alves, E. C. Marino +4

The recent discovery of two-dimensional Dirac materials, such as graphene and transition-metaldichalcogenides, has raised questions about the treatment of hybrid systems, in which…

hep-th2019★ 1 cited

Bosonic interactions in a nonlocal theory in (2+1) dimensions

Ygor Pará, Van Sérgio Alves, Tommaso Macrì +2

Pseudo-Quantum Electrodynamics (PQED) provides an excellent description of the interaction between charged particles confined to a plane. When we couple pseudo-gauge field with a b…

hep-th2019★ 10 cited

Bounded particle interactions driven by a nonlocal dual Chern-Simons model

Van Sérgio Alves, E. C. Marino, Leandro O. Nascimento +3

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) of electrons confined in a plane and that yet can undergo interactions mediated by an unconstrained photon has been described by the so-called {\it ps…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 1 cited

The Superconducting and Pseudogap Phase Diagram of High-Tc Cuprates

E. C. Marino, Reginaldo O. C. Junior, Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes +1

We derive analytic expressions for the critical temperatures of the superconducting (SC) and pseudogap (PG) phases of the high-Tc cuprates, which are in excellent agreement with th…

hep-th2017★ 18 cited

Two-dimensional Yukawa interaction driven by a nonlocal-Proca quantum electrodynamics

Van Sérgio Alves, Tommaso Macrì, Gabriel C. Magalhães +2

We derive two versions of an effective model to describe dynamical effects of the Yukawa interaction among Dirac electrons in the plane. Such short-range interaction is obtained by…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 15 cited

Screening and Topological Order in Thin Superconducting Films

E. C. Marino, D. Niemeyer, Van Sérgio Alves +2

We derive an effective two-dimensional low-energy theory for thin superconducting films coupled to a three-dimensional fluctuating electromagnetic field. Using this theory we discu…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 18 cited

Dynamical Mass Generation in Pseudo Quantum Electrodynamics with Four-Fermion Interactions

Van Sérgio Alves, Reginaldo O. C. Junior, E. C. Marino +1

We describe dynamical symmetry breaking in a system of massless Dirac fermions with both electromagnetic and four-fermion interactions in (2+1) dimensions. The former is described…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 2 cited

Quantum Valley Hall Effect in Massive Dirac Systems Coupled to a Scalar Field

S. H. Kooi, N. Menezes, Van Sérgio Alves +1

We use Pseudo Quantum Electrodynamics to study massive (2+1)D Dirac systems interacting electromagnetically via a U(1) gauge field in (3+1)D. It was recently found in Ref. [1], tha…

cond-mat.str-el2017

Emerging Quantum Hall Effect in Massive Dirac Systems

Leandro O. Nascimento, E. C. Marino, Van Sérgio Alves +1

An interaction-driven nonzero quantum Hall conductivity is shown to occur in time-reversal symmetric massive Dirac materials, in the absence of any external agent. The effect is pr…

hep-th2015★ 1 cited

Light front Casimir effect at finite temperature

P. L. M. Rodrigues, Silvana Perez, Danilo T. Alves +2

The correct description of the standard Casimir effect for periodic boundary conditions via light front formalism implies in these conditions imposed at fixed Minkowski times [Alme…

hep-th2014★ 47 cited

Unitarity of theories containing fractional powers of the d'Alembertian operator

E. C. Marino, Leandro O. Nascimento, Van Sérgio Alves +1

We examine the unitarity of a class of generalized Maxwell U(1) gauge theories in (2+1) D containing the pseudodifferential operator , for . We show that on…

hep-th2013★ 14 cited

Chern-Simons terms in Lifshitz like quantum electrodynamics

Van Sérgio Alves, B. Charneski, M. Gomes +2

In this work the generation of generalized Chern-Simons terms in three dimensional quantum electrodynamics with high spatial derivatives is studied. We analyze the self-energy corr…

hep-th2002★ 28 cited

Light-front field theories at finite temperature

V. S. Alves, Ashok Das, Silvana Perez

We study the question of generalizing light-front field theories to finite temperature. We show that the naive generalization has serious problems and we identify the source of the…

hep-th2002★ 4 cited

Screening Length in 2+1-dimensional Abelian Chern-Simons Theories

V. S. Alves, Ashok Das, Silvana Perez

In this paper, we systematically study the question of screening length in Abelian Chern-Simons theories. In the Abelian Higgs theory, where there are two massive poles in the gaug…

hep-th2001★ 6 cited

Parity Violating Bosonic Loops at Finite Temperature

V. S. Alves, Ashok Das, Gerald V. Dunne +1

The finite temperature parity-violating contributions to the polarization tensor are computed at one loop in a system without fermions. The system studied is a Maxwell-Chern-Simons…