Collective modes of the massless Dirac plasma

dc.creatorSarma, S. Das
dc.creatorHwang, E. H.
dc.date2009-02-22
dc.date2009-02-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:17:02Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:17:02Z
dc.descriptionWe develop a theory for the long-wavelength plasma oscillation of a collection of charged massless Dirac particles in a solid, as occurring for example in doped graphene layers, interacting via the long-range Coulomb interaction. We find that the long-wavelength plasmon frequency in such a doped massless Dirac plasma is explicitly non-classical in all dimensions with the plasma frequency being proportional to \hbar^{-1/2}. We also show that the long wavelength plasma frequency of the D-dimensional superlattice made from such a plasma does not agree with the corresponding (D + 1)-dimensional bulk plasmon frequency. We compare and contrast such Dirac plasmons with the well-studied regular palsmons in metals and doped semiconductors which manifest the usual classical long wavelength plasma oscillation.
dc.description5 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3822
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3822
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206412 (2009)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.206412
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/230983
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.subjectMaterials Science
dc.titleCollective modes of the massless Dirac plasma
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