$\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric three-dimensional QED in the large-$N_f$ limit and applications to super-graphene

Understand

We study $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric three-dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics with $N_f$ two-component fermions.

• Due to the infra-red (IR) softening of the photon, $\ep$-scalar and photino propagators, the theory flows to an interacting fixed point deep in the IR, $p_E \ll e^2 N_f/8$, where $p_E$ is the euclidean momentum and $e$ the electric charge.
• At next-to-leading order in the $1/N_f$-expansion, we find that the flow of the dimensionless effective coupling constant $\overline{\al}$ is such that: $\overline{\al} \ra 8/\big(N_f \,(1+C/N_f)\big) \approx (8/N_f)(1-0.4317/N_f)$ where $C= 2\,(12-\pi^2)/\pi^2$.
• Hence, the non-trivial IR fixed point is stable with respect to quantum corrections.