2013/06/30 by M Pisarra, M. Pisarra, A. Sindona +7
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Electron #Electronic band structure #Free electron model #Graphene #Graphene research and applications #Oscillation (cell signaling) #Plasmon #Thermal properties of materials #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Wavelength #Wavenumber #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/16/8/083003
5 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2013/07/04 · openalex publication_date 2014/08/04 · arxiv updated 2015/06/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
An acoustic plasmon is predicted to occur, in addition to the conventional two-dimensional (2D) plasmon, as the collective motion of a system of two types of electronic carriers coexisting in the same 2D band of extrinsic (doped or gated) graphene. The origin of this novel mode stems from the anisotropy present in the graphene band structure near the Dirac points K and K'. This anisotropy allows for the coexistence of carriers moving with two distinct Fermi velocities along the and directions, which leads to two modes of collective oscillation: one mode in which the two types of carriers oscillate in phase with one another (this is the conventional 2D graphene plasmon, which at long wavelengths ( ) has the same dispersion, , as the conventional 2D plasmon of a 2D free electron gas), and the other mode found here corresponds to a low-frequency acoustic oscillation (whose energy exhibits at long-wavelengths a linear dependence on the 2D wavenumber q ) in which the two types of carriers oscillate out of phase. This prediction represents a realization of acoustic plasmons originated in the collective motion of a system of two types of carriers coexisting within the same band.