Renormalization group analysis of weakly interacting van der Waals Fermi system

TL;DR

This paper applies renormalization group analysis to a weakly interacting van der Waals Fermi system, specifically a graphene-phosphorene heterostructure, revealing its susceptibility behavior and phase diagram near half-filling.

Contribution

It introduces a renormalization group approach to analyze spin-wave dependent susceptibility in van der Waals heterostructures, combining analytical and ab initio methods.

Findings

Susceptibility behavior of the heterostructure near half-filling identified

Phase diagram and critical energy scale dependence mapped

Analytical results correlated with ab initio simulations

Abstract

Weak-coupling phenomena of the two-dimensional Hubbard model is gaining momentum as a new interesting research field due to its extraordinarily rich behavior as a function of the carrier density and model parameters. Salmhofer [{\it Commun. Math. Phys}. \textbf{194}, 249 (1998);{\it Phys. Rev. Lett}. {\bf 87}, 187004 (2001)] developed a new renormalization-group method for interacting Fermi systems and Metzner [{\it Phys. Rev. B} {\bf 61}, 7364 (2000);{\it Phys. Rev. Lett}. {\bf 85}, 5162 (2000)] implemented this renormalization group analysis of the two-dimensional Hubbard model. In this work, we demonstrate the spin-wave dependent susceptibility behavior of model graphene-phosphorene van der Waals heterostructure in the framework of renormalization group approach. We implement signlet vertex response function for the weakly interacting van der Waals Fermi system with nearest-neighbor hopping amplitudes. This analytical approach is further correlated with {\it ab initio} simulation results and extended for spin-wave dependent susceptibility behavior with possible experimental protocols. We present the resulting compressibility and phase diagram in the vicinity of half-filling, and also results for the density dependence of the critical energy scale.