Electronic Properties of Graphene Multilayers

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Abstract

We determine numerically the tight-binding band structure, the density of states and the plasmon spectrum of N stacked graphene layers beyond the Dirac cone approximation. We calculate the polarizability in the random phase approximation and determine the dielectric function $\epsilon$({\bf q},$\omega)$. This allows to determine the acoustic and optical modes of the plasmon spectrum. Because we do not limit ourselves to the Dirac cone approximation we cannot use the semi-analytic approach usually proposed for graphene in the literature. Instead we use a combination of numerical procedures to determine the collective modes of graphene multilayer.

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Authors

  • Hamed Sadeghi

    Department of Physics \& Astronomy, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach 90840

  • Nilgun Sungar

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Irvine, California State University, Fresno, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, Seogang University, Pohang University of Science \& Technology, UC Santa Cruz, Trinity College, Hartford, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CSU Long Beach, Physics/Hokkaido University, Japan, Physics/University of California, San Deigo, Physics/California State University, Fresno, CSU Stanislaus, University of California, Santa Barbara, Instituted of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, SpaceX, Northrop-Grumman, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, Davis 95616, United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Chemistry/California State University Fresno, Physics/California State University Fresno, University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Merced, UC Merced, Stanford University, New Economic School, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Chair of the Physics Department

  • Andreas Bill

    Department of Physics \& Astronomy, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach 90840