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Although plasmon modes exist in doped graphene, the limited range of doping achieved by gating restricts the plasmon frequencies to a range that does not include visible and infrared. Here we show, through the use of first-principles…

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Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are gaining increasing attention as alternative to graphene for their very high potential in optoelectronics applications. Here we consider two prototypical metallic 2D TMDs, NbSe$_2$…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Pierluigi Cudazzo , Matteo Gatti , Angel Rubio

Doped graphene sheets are pseudochiral two-dimensional Fermi liquids with abnormal electron-electron interaction physics. We address graphene's Fermi liquid properties quantitatively using a microscopic random-phase-approximation theory and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , Yafis Barlas , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. H. MacDonald

We analytically obtain the dispersion relations for transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) surface plasmon-polaritons in a nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) conducting material lying between two Kerr-type dielectric media. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vera Andreeva , Mitchell Luskin , Dionisios Margetis

Plasmons in low-dimensional systems respresent an important tool for coupling energy into nanostructures and the localization of energy on the scale of only a few nanometers. Contrary to ordinary surface plasmons of metallic bulk materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 H. Pfnür , C. Tegenkamp , L. Vattuone

The dynamical dielectric function of two dimensional graphene at arbitrary wave vector $q$ and frequency $\omega$, $\epsilon(q,\omega)$, is calculated in the self-consistent field approximation. The results are used to find the dispersion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-19 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We demonstrate how self-sourced collective modes - of which the plasmon is a prominent example due to its relevance in modern technological applications - are identified in strongly correlated systems described by holographic Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Ulf Gran , Marcus Tornsö , Tobias Zingg

Chemically doped graphene could support plasmon excitations up to telecommunication or even visible frequencies. Apart from that, the presence of dopant may influence electron scattering mechanisms in graphene and thus impact the plasmon…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-06 Dino Novko

Strong optical nonreciprocity at the nanoscale, relying on extreme one-way modes and backscattering suppression, can enable fundamentally new approaches in optoelectronics and plasmonics. Of special interest is achieving nonreciprocity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Dan S. Borgnia , Trung V. Phan , Leonid S. Levitov

We investigate through analytic calculations the surface plasmon dispersion relation for monolayer graphene sheets and a separated parallel pair of graphene monolayers. An approximate form for the dispersion relation for the monolayer case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Choon How Gan , Hong Son Chu , Er Ping Li

We present a formalism and numerical results for the energy loss of a charged particle scattered at an arbitrary angle from epitaxially grown multilayer graphene (MLG). It is compared with that of free-standing graphene layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-20 O. Roslyak , G. Gumbs , D. H. Huang

The ability to tailor the energy distribution of plasmons at the nanoscale has many applications in nanophotonics, such as designing plasmon lasers, spasers, and quantum emitters. To this end, we analytically study the energy distribution…

The drag of massless fermions in graphene double-layer structures is investigated in a wide rage of temperatures and inter-layer separations. We show that the inhomogeneity of the dielectric background in such graphene structures for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

Collective modes of doped two-dimensional crystalline materials, namely graphene, MoS$_2$ and phosphorene, both monolayer and bilayer structures, are explored using the density functional theory simulations together with the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Zahra Torbatian , Reza Asgari

The ability to effectively guide electromagnetic radiation below the diffraction limit is of the utmost importance in the prospect of all-optical plasmonic circuitry. Here, we propose an alternative solution to conventional metal-based…

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The excitation spectrum and the collective modes of graphene antidot lattices (GALs) are studied in the context of a $\pi$-band tight-binding model. The dynamical polarizability and dielectric function are calculated within the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-06 Shengjun Yuan , Fengping Jin , Rafael Roldán , Antti-Pekka Jauho , M. I. Katsnelson

Plasmons in ordinary electron liquids are collective excitations whose long-wavelength limit is rigid center-of-mass motion with a dispersion relation that is, as a consequence of Galileian invariance, unrenormalized by many-body effects.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-29 Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald , G. Vignale

Using a scanning electron microscope, we observed a reproducible, discrete distribution of secondary electron intensity stemming from an atomically thick graphene film on a thick insulating substrate. The discrete distribution made it…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-29 Hidefumi Hiura , Hisao Miyazaki , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

Plasmons in two-dimensional electron systems with nonparabolic bands, such as graphene, feature strong dependence on electron-electron interactions. We use a many-body approach to relate plasmon dispersion at long wavelengths to Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 L. S. Levitov , A. V. Shtyk , M. V. Feigelman

We analyze nonlinear optics schemes for generating pairs of quantum entangled plasmons in the terahertz-infrared range in graphene. We predict that high plasmonic field concentration and strong optical nonlinearity of monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler