Effect of weak disorder on the density of states in graphene

The effect of weak potential and bond disorder on the density of states of graphene is studied. By comparing the self-consistent noncrossing approximation on the honeycomb lattice with perturbation theory on the Dirac fermions, we conclude that the linear density of states of pure graphene changes to a nonuniversal power law whose exponent depends on the strength of disorder like 1-4g/root 3 pi t(2), with g the variance of the Gaussian disorder and t the hopping integral. This can result in a significant suppression of the exponent of the density of states in the weak-disorder limit. We argue that even a nonlinear density of states can result in a conductivity that is proportional to the number of charge carriers, in accordance with experimental findings.