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Monte-Carlo simulation of graphene in terms of occupation numbers for the excitonic order parameter at hexagonal lattice

We present the results of the Monte-Carlo simulation of graphene-like statistical model in terms of occupation numbers. We study the problem of the phase transition in graphene to an insulating phase. Only antiferromagnetic order parameter was studied at the moment by means of Hybrid Monte-Carlo process on the hexagonal lattice because of the sign problem for excitonic order parameter in fermionic determinant. Therefore we have studied the possibility of the phase transition to an excitonic phase by means of simplified Monte-Carlo process on the hexagonal lattice. We show that this phase, which corresponds to a charge polarization of graphene sublattices, can appear at some values of Coulomb electron-electron potentials. In this work we study the dependence of the phase transition characteristics on the strength of on-site electron-electron interaction. We show that excitonic phase transition is also impossible in suspended graphene.