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      Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Monolayer Graphene by Strong Coupling Expansion of Compact and Non-compact U(1) Lattice Gauge Theories

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          Due to effective enhancement of the Coulomb coupling strength in the vacuum-suspended graphene, the system may turn from a semimetal into an insulator by the formation of a gap in the fermionic spectrum. This phenomenon is analogous to the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in the strong-coupling relativistic field theories. We study this "chiral symmetry breaking" and associated collective excitations on graphene in the strong coupling regime by taking U(1) lattice gauge theory as an effective model for graphene. Both compact and non-compact formulations of the U(1) gauge action show chiral symmetry breaking with equal magnitude of the chiral condensate (exciton condensate) in the strong coupling limit, while they start to deviate from the next-to-leading order in the strong coupling expansion. Phase and amplitude fluctuations of the order parameter are also investigated: in particular, a mass formula for the pseudo-Nambu--Goldstone mode (\(\pi\)-exciton), which is analogous to Gell-Mann--Oakes--Renner relation for the pion in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), is derived from the axial Ward-Takahashi identity. To check the applicability of the effective field theory description, typical energy scales of fermionic and bosonic excitations are estimated by identifying the lattice spacing of the U(1) gauge theory with that of the original honeycomb lattice of graphene.

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                Journal
                05 October 2010
                Article
                10.1016/j.aop.2011.01.002
                1010.0847
                6b6ceb38-f8e1-4f8b-96dd-ff67f2d42a91

                http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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                TKYNT-10-16
                Annals Phys.326:1408-1424,2011
                20 pages, 6 figures
                cond-mat.str-el hep-lat hep-ph

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