Abstract
We study graphene-based electron systems with long-range Coulomb interaction by performing an analytic continuation in the number of dimensions. We characterize in this way the crossover between the marginal Fermi-liquid behavior of a graphite layer and the Luttinger-liquid behavior at The former persists for any dimension above However, the proximity to the fixed-point strongly influences the phenomenology of quasi-one-dimensional systems, giving rise to an effective power-law behavior of observables like the density of states. This applies to nanotubes of a large radius, for which we predict a lower bound of the corresponding exponent that turns out to be very close to the value measured in multiwalled nanotubes.
- Received 29 June 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.201106
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