Fermi Liquid Theory of a Fermi Ring

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Abstract

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands characterized by an unusual ``mexican-hat'' dispersion. We focus on the metallic regime where the chemical potential lies in the ``mexican-hat'' in the conduction band, leading to a topologically non-trivial Fermi surface in the shape of a ring. We show that due to the unusual topology of the Fermi surface electron-electron interactions are greatly enhanced. We discuss the possibility of an instability towards a ferromagnetic phase due to this enhancement. We compute the electronic polarization function in the random phase approximation and show that, while at low energies the system behaves as a Fermi liquid (albeit with peculiar Friedel oscillations), at high frequencies it shows a highly anomalous response when compare to ordinary metals.

*FIS2004-06490-C03-00 (MEC), 12881 (NEST), DMR-0343790 (NSF).

Authors

  • Tobias Stauber

    • Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
  • Nuno Peres

    • Center of Physics and Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
  • Francisco Guinea

    • Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid. CSIC. Cantoblanco. 28049 Madrid. Spain.
    • Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
    • Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid
  • Antonio Castro Neto

    • Boston University
    • Department of Physics, Boston University
    • Boston University, Physics Department
    • Department of Physics. Boston University. 590 Commonwealth Av. Boston MA02115
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston,USA
    • Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215
    • Physics Dept, Boston University