Plasmons and their interaction with electrons in trilayer graphene

Abstract

The interaction between electrons and plasmons in trilayer graphene is investigated within the Overhauser approach resulting in the 'plasmaron' quasi-particle. This interaction is cast into a field theoretical problem, nd its effect on the energy spectrum is calculated using improved Wigner-Brillouin perturbation theory. The plasmaron spectrum is shifted with respect to the bare electron spectrum by $\Delta E(\mathbf{k})\sim 50\div200\,{\rm meV}$ for ABC stacked trilayer graphene and for ABA trilayer graphene by $\Delta E(\mathbf{k})\sim 30\div150\,{\rm meV}$ ($\Delta E(\mathbf{k})\sim 1\div5\,{\rm meV}$) for the hyperbolic linear) part of the spectrum. The shift in general increases with the electron concentration $n_{e}$ and electron momentum. The dispersion of plasmarons is more pronounced in \textit{ABC} stacked than in ABA tacked trilayer graphene, because of the different energy band structure and their different plasmon dispersion.