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Exotic plasmon modes of double layer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-12-29 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We derive the plasmon dispersion in doped double layer graphene (DLG), made of two parallel graphene mono-layers with carrier densities n1n_1 and n2n_2 respectively, and an inter-layer separation of dd. The linear chiral gapless single particle energy dispersion of graphene leads to exotic DLG plasmon properties with several unexpected experimentally observable characteristic features such as a nontrivial influence of an undoped (n2=0n_2=0) layer on the DLG plasmon dispersion and a strange influence of the second layer even in the weak-coupling d0d\to 0 limit. Our predicted exotic DLG plasmon properties clearly distinguish graphene from the extensively studied usual parabolic 2D electron systems.

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@article{arxiv.0906.0771,
  title  = {Exotic plasmon modes of double layer graphene},
  author = {E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0771},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages 4 figures

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