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Generation and morphing of plasmons in graphene superlattices

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-10-29 v1

Abstract

Recent experimental studies on graphene on hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) have demonstrated that hBN is not only a passive substrate that ensures superb electronic properties of graphene's carriers, but that it actively modifies their massless Dirac fermion character through a periodic moir\'e potential. In this work we present a theory of the plasmon excitation spectrum of massless Dirac fermions in a moir\'e superlattice. We demonstrate that graphene-hBN stacks offer a rich platform for plasmonics in which control of plasmon modes can occur not only via electrostatic gating but also by adjusting e.g. the relative crystallographic

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@article{arxiv.1407.2810,
  title  = {Generation and morphing of plasmons in graphene superlattices},
  author = {Andrea Tomadin and Francisco Guinea and Marco Polini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2810},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages, 12 figures, 3 appendices