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Alessandro De Martino
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2010
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Physics
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We study the energy of quasi-particles in graphene within the Hartree-Fock approximation. The quasi-particles are confined via an inhomogeneous magnetic field and interact via the Coulomb potential. We show that the associated functional has a minimizer and determine the stability conditions for the N-particle problem in such a graphene quantum dot.
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