Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1592242 | Solid State Communications | 2013 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The electrodynamics of a two-dimensional gas of massless fermions in graphene is studied by a collisionless hydrodynamic approach. A low-energy dispersion relation for the collective modes (plasmons) is derived both in the absence and in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The results for graphene are compared to those for a standard two-dimensional gas of massive electrons. We further compare the results within the classical hydrodynamic approach to the full quantum mechanical calculation in the random phase approximation. The low-energy dispersion relation is shown to be a good approximation at small wave vectors. The limitations of this approach at higher order are also discussed.
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Authors
R. Roldán, J.-N. Fuchs, M.O. Goerbig,