  We investigate the effect of marginality on the ground state fidelity and
Loschmidt echo. For this purpose, we study the above quantities near the
quantum critical point (QCP) of the two-dimensional (2-D) Dirac Hamiltonian in
the presence of a mass term which is tuned to zero at the Dirac point. An ideal
example would be that of the low-energy carriers in graphene in which a mass
term opens up a band gap. This happens to be a marginal situation where the
behavior of the fidelity and the echo is markedly different as compared to that
in the one-dimensional case. We encounter this marginal behavior near the Dirac
point, which is displayed in the absence of a sharp dip in the ground state
fidelity (or equivalently in the logarithmic scaling of the fidelity
susceptibility). Most importantly, there is also a logarithmic correction to
the proposed scaling of the fidelity in the thermodynamic limit which can not
be a priori anticipated from the predicted scaling form. Interestingly, a sharp
dip in the ground state Loschmidt echo is also found to be absent near this
QCP, which is again a consequence of the marginality. We also explain the
absence of a sharp dip in both the fidelity and the Loschmidt echo close to the
QCP in dimensions greater than two.
