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Plasmonics in Dirac systems: from graphene to topological insulators

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-03-10 v3

Abstract

The recent developments in the emerging field of plasmonics in graphene and other Dirac systems are reviewed and a comprehensive introduction to the standard models and techniques is given. In particular, we discuss intrinsic plasmon excitations of single and bilayer graphene via hydrodynamic equations and the random phase approximation, but also comment on double and multilayer structures. Additionally, we address Dirac systems in the retardation limit and also with large spin-orbit coupling including topological insulators. Finally, we summarize basic properties of the charge, current and photon linear response functions in an appendix.

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@article{arxiv.1310.4296,
  title  = {Plasmonics in Dirac systems: from graphene to topological insulators},
  author = {T. Stauber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4296},
  year   = {2014}
}

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25 pages, 10 figures; submitted to J. Phys.: TOPICAL REVIEW (invited)