• 文献标题:   Electronic spectrum of trilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KUMAR S, AJAY
  • 作者关键词:   multilayer graphene, electronic spectral function, tight binding hamiltonian, stacking order
  • 出版物名称:   INDIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0973-1458 EI 0974-9845
  • 通讯作者地址:   Indian Inst Technol Roorkee
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1007/s12648-014-0500-z
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Present work deals with the analysis of the single particle electronic spectral function in trilayer (ABC-, ABA- and AAA-stacked) graphene. Tight binding Hamiltonian containing intralayer nearest-neighbor and next-nearest neighbor hopping along-with the interlayer coupling parameter within two triangular sub-lattice approach for trilayer graphene has been employed. The expression of single particle spectral functions A(kw) is obtained within mean-field Green's function equations of motion approach. Spectral function at Gamma, M and K points of the Brillouin zone has been numerically computed. It is pointed out that the nature of electronic states at different points of Brillouin zone is found to be influenced by stacking order and Coulomb interactions. At Gamma and M points, a trilayer splitting is predicted while at K point a bilayer splitting effect is observed due to crossing of two bands (at K point). Interlayer coupling (t perpendicular to) is found to be responsible for the splitting of quasi-particle peaks at each point of Brillouin zone. The influence of t perpendicular to in trilayer graphene is prominent for AAA-stacking compared to ABC-and ABA-stacking. On the other hand, onsite Coulomb interaction reduces the trilayer splitting effect into bilayer splitting at Gamma and M points of Brillouin zone and bilayer splitting into single peak spectral function at K point with a shifting of the peak away from Fermi level.