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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 30: Transport: Graphene
(Joint session of DS, DY, HL, MA, O and TT, organized by TT)

DS 30.2: Talk

Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 10:00–10:15, H22

Double-logarithmic velocity renormalization at the Dirac points of graphene — •Peter Kopietz, Anand Sharma, and Carsten Bauer — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt

Using a functional renormalization group approach with partial bosonization in the forward scattering channel we reconsider the effect of long-range Coulomb interactions on the quasi-particle velocity v_k close to the Dirac points of graphene. In contrast to calculations based on perturbation theory and field theoretical renormalization group methods, we find that v_k is proportional to ln[ κ_k / k ] where k is the deviation of the quasiparticle momentum from the Dirac points and the cutoff scale κ_k vanishes logarithmically for small k. We show that this double-logarithmic singularity is compatible with experiments and with the known three-loop expansion of v_k which contains terms of order lnk and ln² k.