Electron-Electron Bound States in Maxwell-Chern-Simons-Proca QED3

TL;DR

This paper investigates electron-electron interactions in a parity-breaking Maxwell-Chern-Simons-Proca QED3 model, deriving potentials and calculating bound state energies that could relate to pairing phenomena in condensed matter systems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of MCS QED3 with spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking to evaluate e-e bound states and their energies in a condensed matter relevant energy scale.

Findings

Potential degenerates at condensed matter energy scale

Binding energies are in the range of 10-100 meV

Correlation lengths are in the range of 10-30 Angstroms

Abstract

We start from a parity-breaking MCS QED$_{3}$ model with spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry as a framework for evaluation of the electron-electron interaction potential and for attainment of numerical values for the e-e bound state. Three expressions are obtained for the potential according to the polarization state of the scattered electrons. In an energy scale compatible with Condensed Matter electronic excitations, these three potentials become degenerated. The resulting potential is implemented in the Schrodinger equation and the variational method is applied to carry out the electronic binding energy. The resulting binding energies in the scale of 10-100 meV and a correlation length in the scale of 10-30 Angs. are possible indications that the MCS-QED$_{3}$ model adopted may be suitable to address an eventual case of e-e pairing in the presence of parity-symmetry breakdown. The data analyzed here suggest an energy scale of 10-100 meV to fix the breaking of the U(1)-symmetry. PACS numbers: 11.10.Kk 11.15.Ex 74.20.-z 74.72.-h ICEN-PS-01/17