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Origin of Universal Optical Conductivity and Optical Stacking Sequence Identification in Multilayer Graphene

Materials Science 2009-08-06 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We show that the origin of the universal optical conductivity in a normal NN-layer graphene multilayer is an emergent chiral symmetry which guarantees that σ(ω)=Nσuni\sigma(\omega)=N\sigma_{uni} in both low and high frequency limits. [σuni=(π/2)e2/h\sigma_{uni}=(\pi/2) e^2/h]. We use this physics to relate intermediate frequency conductivity trends to qualitative characteristics of the multilayer stacking sequence.

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@article{arxiv.0903.2163,
  title  = {Origin of Universal Optical Conductivity and Optical Stacking Sequence Identification in Multilayer Graphene},
  author = {Hongki Min and A. H. MacDonald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2163},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures