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Session Q11: Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Infrared and Terahertz Spectroscopy

11:15 AM–1:51 PM, Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Room: 210B

Sponsoring Unit: DMP
Chair: Andrea Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract ID: BAPS.2012.MAR.Q11.8

Abstract: Q11.00008 : Quasiparticle properties in graphene*

1:03 PM–1:39 PM

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Author:

Euyheon Hwang
(CMTC, University of Maryland at College Park)

The quasiparticle properties in both single layer and bilayer graphene are presented. We study the electron self-energy as well as the quasiparticle spectral function in graphene, taking into account electron-electron interaction in the leading order dynamically screened Coulomb coupling and electron-impurity interaction associated with quenched disorder. Our calculation of the self-energy provides the basis for calculating all one-electron properties of graphene. We provide analytical and numerical results for quasiparticle renormalization in graphene. Comparison with existing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements shows broad qualitative and semiquantitative agreement between theory and experiment, for both the momentum-distribution and energy-distribution curves in the measured spectra. We also present the inelastic quasiparticle scattering rate and the carrier mean free path for energetic hot electrons as a function of carrier energy, density, and temperature, including both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. Our results are directly applicable to device structures where ballistic transport is relevant with inelastic scattering dominating over elastic scattering.\\[4pt] S. Das Sarma, S. Adam, E. H. Hwang, and E. Rossi, Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 407 (2011). \\[0pt] E. H. Hwang, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and S. Das Sarma Phys. Rev. B 76, 115434 (2007). \\[0pt] E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma Phys. Rev. B 77, 081412 (2008). \\[0pt] Rajdeep Sensarma, E. H. Hwang, and S. Das Sarma, Phys. Rev. B 84, 041408(R) (2011).

*This work is done in collaboration with R. Sensarma, B. Hu, and S. Das Sarma, and supported by CNAM, US-ONR and NSF-NRI.

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