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Phys. Rev. B 78, 085416 (2008) [12 pages]

Quantum critical transport in clean graphene

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Lars Fritz1, Jörg Schmalian2, Markus Müller1, and Subir Sachdev1
1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
2Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA

Received 5 March 2008; revised 16 May 2008; published 13 August 2008

We describe electrical transport in ideal single-layer graphene at zero applied gate voltage. There is a crossover from collisionless transport at frequencies larger than kBT/ (T is the temperature) to collision-dominated transport at lower frequencies. The dc conductivity is computed by the solution of a quantum Boltzmann equation. Due to a logarithmic singularity in the collinear scattering amplitude (a consequence of relativistic dispersion in two dimensions), quasiparticles and quasiholes moving in the same direction tend to an effective equilibrium distribution whose parameters depend on the direction of motion. This property allows us to find the nonequilibrium distribution functions and the quantum critical conductivity exactly to leading order in 1/|ln(α)|, where α is the coupling constant characterizing the Coulomb interactions.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.085416
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.085416
PACS:
73.63.−b, 05.10.Cc, 05.20.Dd, 81.05.Uw

See Also

See Also: Alexander B. Kashuba, Conductivity of defectless graphene, Phys. Rev. B 78, 085415 (2008).