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石墨烯中电子诱导曲率场凝聚的波纹跃迁

Rippling transition from electron-induced condensation of curvature field in graphene

J. Gonzalez

摘要:

采用量子场论方法研究了金属薄膜(如石墨烯)中弯曲声子的动力学行为,探讨了电子激发与弹性形变之间的强相互作用对弯曲声子动力学行为的影响.依靠自洽屏蔽近似的声子自能,我们表明,该理论具有一个临界点,其特征在于在低动量的膜的有效弯曲刚度的消失。我们还检查弯曲声子的扇区中的不稳定性发生,而不发生面内静态畸变的发展,这是避免由于在大动量的面内声子的电子-声子耦合的显着减少。此外,我们分析了多体理论的标度性质,以确定在过渡点打开的序参量。我们发现,有效弯曲刚度的消失和发病的非零平均曲率的期望值的临界行为的并发表现。这里提出的结果意味着,即使在没有张力的情况下,该理论也有一个临界点,在该临界点处,平坦的几何形状成为金属膜的不稳定配置,平均曲率场的冷凝可以很好地再现在独立石墨烯中观察到的波纹的平滑分布。

英文摘要:

A quantum field theory approach is applied to investigate the dynamics of flexural phonons in a metallic membrane like graphene, looking for the effects deriving from the strong interaction between the electronic excitations and elastic deformations. Relying on a self-consistent screening approximation to the phonon self-energy, we show that the theory has a critical point characterized by the vanishing of the effective bending rigidity of the membrane at low momentum. We also check that the instability in the sector of flexural phonons takes place without the development of an in-plane static distortion, which is avoided due to the significant reduction of the electron-phonon couplings for in-plane phonons at large momenta. Furthermore, we analyze the scaling properties of the many-body theory to identify the order parameter that opens up at the point of the transition. We find that the vanishing of the effective bending rigidity and the onset of a nonzero expectation value of the mean curvature are concurrent manifestations of the critical behavior. The results presented here imply that, even in the absence of tension, the theory has a critical point at which the flat geometry becomes an unstable configuration of the metallic membrane, with a condensation of the mean curvature field that may well reproduce the smooth distribution of ripples observed in free-standing graphene.

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