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We have conducted a thorough theoretical and numerical investigation of the electronic susceptibility, polarizability, plasmons, their damping rates, as well as the static screening in pseudospin-1 Dirac cone materials with a flat band, or…

We discuss the renormalization of the polarizability of a nanoparticle in the presence of either (i) a continuous graphene sheet or (ii) a plasmonic graphene grating, taking into account retardation effects. Our analysis demonstrates that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Bruno Amorim , P. A. D. Gonçalves , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

We investigate the development of a gapped phase in the field theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. In the large-N approximation, we show that the chiral symmetry is only broken below a critical number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 J. Gonzalez

Graphene is a valuable 2D platform for plasmonics as illustrated in recent THz and mid-infrared optics experiments. These high-energy plasmons however, couple to the dielectric surface modes giving rise to hybrid plasmon-polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 H. Graef , D. Mele , M. Rosticher , C. Stampfer , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Bocquillon , G. Fève , J-M. Berroir , E. H. T. Teo , B. Plaçais

We provide detailed calculation of the a.c. conductivity in the case of 1/r-Coulomb interacting massless Dirac particles in graphene in the collisionless limit when \omega >> T. The analysis of the electron self-energy, current vertex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 Vladimir Juricic , Oskar Vafek , Igor F. Herbut

The essentially non-perturbative polarization effects are considered for a planar supercritical Dirac-Coulomb system with strong coupling (similar to graphene and graphene-based heterostructures) in terms of induced charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu. Voronina , K. Sveshnikov , P. Grashin , A. Davydov

Dirac electrons in graphene in the presence of Coulomb interactions of strength $\beta$ have been shown to display power law behavior with $\beta$ dependent exponents in certain correlation functions, which we call the mass susceptibilities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-14 Fernando de Juan , Herbert A. Fertig

An analytical theory of the nonlinear electromagnetic response of a two-dimensional (2D) electron system in the second order in the electric field amplitude is developed. The second-order polarizability and the intensity of the second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. A. Mikhailov

The collective excitation spectrum of two-dimensional (2D) antimonene is calculated beyond the low energy continuum approximation. The dynamical polarizability is computed using a 6-orbitals tight-binding model that properly accounts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Guus Slotman , Alexander Rudenko , Edo van Veen , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Rafael Roldán , Shengjun Yuan

We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang , A. H. MacDonald

In this paper we study the excitation spectrum of single- and multi-layer graphene beyond the Dirac cone approximation. The dynamical polarizability of graphene is computed using a full $\pi$-band tight-binding model, considering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 Shengjun Yuan , Rafael Roldán , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We study the optical properties of double-layer graphene for linearly polarized evanescent modes and discuss the in-phase and out-of-phase plasmon modes for both, longitudinal and transverse polarization. We find a energy for which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos

We optimize the first and second intrinsic hyperpolarizabilities for a 1D piecewise linear potential dressed with Dirac delta functions for $N$ non-interacting electrons. The optimized values fall rapidly for $N>1$, but approach constant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Christopher J. Burke , Joseph Lesnefsky , Rolfe G. Petschek , Timothy J. Atherton

The particle-hole excitation spectrum for doped graphene is calculated from the dynamical polarizability. We study the zero and finite magnetic field cases and compare them to the standard two-dimensional electron gas. The effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-21 R. Roldan , M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs

We use supersymmetry transformations to obtain new one parameter family of inhomogeneous magnetic fields $\mathbf{B} = \widetilde{\mathcal{B}}(x,\lambda) \hat{e}_z$ for which the massless Dirac electron possesses exact solution. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Bikashkali Midya , David J Fernández

We calculate the dynamic polarizability under the random phase approximation for the dice lattice. This two-dimensional system gives rise to massless Dirac fermions with pseudospin-1 in the low-energy quantum excitation spectrum, providing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 John D. Malcolm , Elisabeth J. Nicol

Coulomb screening and excitation spectra of electrons in a graphene layer with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied in the random phase approximation. The SOI opens a gap between the valence and conduction bands of the semi-metal Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 X. F. Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

The Dirac mass-vortex at the surface of a topological insulator or in graphene is considered. Within the linear approximation for the vortex amplitude's radial dependence, the spectrum is a series of degenerate bound states, which can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Chi-Ken Lu , Igor F. Herbut

Excited conduction electrons, conduction holes, and valence holes in monolayer electron-doped graphene exhibit unusual Coulomb decay rates. The deexcitation processes are studied using the screened exchange energy. They might utilize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Chih-Wei Chiu , Chiun-Yan Lin , Rong-Bin Chen

We present a theoretical study of photoexcitation of highly charged ions from their ground states, a process which can be realized at the Gamma Factory at CERN. Special attention is paid to the question of how the excitation rates are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Jan Richter , Anna V. Maiorova , Anna V. Viatkina , Dmitry Budker , Andrey Surzhykov