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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 15(88)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.88.155128

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Plasmons in metallic monolayer and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Journal article published in 2013 by Kirsten Andersen, Kristian S. Thygesen ORCID
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Abstract

We study the collective electronic excitations in metallic single- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using time dependent density functional theory in the random phase approximation. For very small momentum transfers (below $q≈0.02$~Å$^{-1}$) the plasmon dispersion follows the $\sqrt{q}$ behavior expected for free electrons in two dimensions. For larger momentum transfer the plasmon energy is significantly red shifted due to screening by interband transitions. At around $q≈ 0.1$ Å$^{-1}$ the plasmon enters the dissipative electron-hole continuum and the plasmon dispersions flatten out at an energy around 0.6-1.1 eV, depending on the material. Using bilayer NbSe$_2$ as example, we show that the plasmon modes of a bilayer structure take the form of symmetric and anti-symmetric hybrids of the single-layer modes. The spatially anti-symmetric mode is rather weak with a linear dispersion tending to zero for $q=0$ while the energy of the symmetric mode follows the single-layer mode dispersion with a slight blue shift. ; Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures