Tunable plasmon modes in doped AA-stacked bilayer graphene

Abstract

We study plasmon modes in doped AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) within the nearest-neighbor tight-binding and the random phase approximation. We obtain closed analytical expressions for the polarizability function which are used to obtain the low-energy dispersion relations of and the numerical results for both acoustic and optical plasmon modes. Our result reveal the potential of AA-stacked BLG to be used as a tunable plasmonic device. In particular we find that the long-wavelength acoustic plasmon disperse as $\omega_{+}\approx\sqrt{max(|\mu|,t_{1})q}$ with a phase space which shrinks and vanishes as the chemical potential approaches the interlayer hopping energy, preventing the existence of long-lived acoustic plasmon. Furthermore, we show that AA-stacked BLG support coherent optical plasmon only when the condition $(1+\frac{g_{\sigma}g_{v}e^{2}t_{1}d}{\kappa v_{F}^{2}}\frac{|\mu|}{t_{1}})^{1/2}<\frac{|\mu|}{t_{1}}$ is satisfied, specially indicating Landau damping of the optical plasmon in undoped AA-staked BLG even at long-wavelength limit. We also find that the optical plasmon mode disperses as $\omega_{-}\approx \Delta+Cq^{2}$ with constants that can be tuned by tuning the chemical potential.