On the optical properties of graphenes

Wednesday, 1st February 2012. 12:00-13:00

Tobias Stauber

Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

ABSTRACT:

One of the hallmarks of the optical properties of (suspended) graphene is that a simply-observable quantity as the optical transparency is defined solely by the fine structure constant [1]. In the first part of this talk, I will give the theoretical explanation to this experiment, i.e., show that even in the visible-optics regime the corrections to the Dirac cone approximation are small (a few percent) and the effect of next-nearest neighbor hopping is negligible [2]. I will also discuss the infrared conductivity of graphene on a substrate where electron-phonon and impurity scattering become important [3].

In the second part, I will look at the optical properties of double layer graphene with respect to their plasmonic excitations, near-field amplification and extraordinary (perfect) transmission [4]. Also graphene’s fluorescence quenching including transverse decay channels and full retardation will be discussed [5]. Finally, the current-current correlation function of the full hexagonal tight-binding model will be derived [6] and I will show that lattice effects lead to a paramagnetic response for graphene with intrinsic doping at low temperatures [7].

[1] R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A. N. Grigorenko, K. S. Novoselov, T.J. Booth, T.
Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, and A. K. Geim, Science 320, 1308 (2008).
[2] T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, and A. K. Geim, Phys. Rev. B 78, 085432 (2008).
[3] T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, and A. H. Castro Neto, Phys. Rev. B 78, 085418 (2008).
[4] T. Stauber and G. Gómez-Santos, Phys. Rev. B 85, (2012).
[5] G. Gómez-Santos and T. Stauber, Phys. Rev. B 84, 165438 (2011).
[6] T. Stauber and G. Gómez-Santos, Phys. Rev. B 82, 155412 (2010).
[7] G. Gómez-Santos and T. Stauber, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045504 (2011).