Tight-binding electron–phonon coupling and band renormalization in graphene

The kink structure in the quasiparticle spectrum of electrons in graphene observed at 200 me V below the Fermi level by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy(ARPES)was claimed to be caused by a tight-binding electron–phonon(e–ph)coupling in the previous theoretical studies.However,we numerically find that the e–ph coupling effect in this approach is too weak to account for the ARPES data.The former agreement between this approach and the ARPES data is due to an enlargement of the coupling constant by almost four times.     

Anisotropic evolution of 4-brane in a 6D generalized Randall-Sundrum model

We investigate a 6 D generalized Randall-Sundrum brane world scenario with a bulk cosmological constant.Each stress-energy tensor T_(ab)~i on the brane is shown to be similar to a constant vacuum energy.This is consistent with the Randall-Sundrum model,in which each 3-brane Lagrangian yielded a constant vacuum energy.By adopting an anisotropic metric ansatz,we obtain the 5 D Friedmann-Robertson-Walker field equations.In a slightly later period,the expansion of the universe is proportional to the square root of time,t~(1/2),which is similar to the period of the radiation-dominated regime.Moreover,we investigate the case with two a(t) and two b(t).In a large range of t,we obtain the 3 D effective cosmological constant Λ_(eff)=-2Ω/30,which is independent of the integral constant.Here,the scale factor is an exponential expansion,which is consistent with our present observation of the universe.Our results demonstrate that it is possible to construct a model that solves the dark energy problem,while guaranteeing a positive brane tension.