• 文献标题:   Optical conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TABERT CJ, NICOL EJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Guelph
  • 被引频次:   33
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.87.121402
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

We calculate the finite-frequency conductivity of bilayer graphene with a relative twist between the layers. The low-frequency response at zero doping shows a flat conductivity with value twice that of the monolayer case and at higher frequency a strong absorption peak occurs. For finite doping, the low-frequency flat absorption is modified into a peak centered at zero frequency (the Drude response) accompanied by an interband edge which results from the transfer of spectral weight from interband to intraband absorption due to Pauli blocking. If the system is doped sufficiently such that the chemical potential reaches beyond the low-energy saddle point in the twisted bilayer band structure, a strong low-frequency absorption peak appears at an energy related to an effective interlayer hopping energy, which may be used to identify this parameter and confirm the existence of the saddle point which gives rise to a low-energy van Hove singularity in the electronic density of states. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.121402