Control of Plasmons in Doped Topological Insulators via Basis Atoms

Abstract

Collective excitations in topologically non-trivial systems have attracted considerable attention in recent years. Here we study plasmons in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model whose low-energy electronic band is only partially filled, such that the system is metallic. Using the random phase approximation, we calculate the intra- and inter-band polarization functions and determine the bulk plasmonic dispersion from the dielectric function within the random phase approximation. We find that the sub-lattice basis states strongly affect the polarization functions and therefore control the system's plasmonic excitations. By varying the real-space separation of these local orbitals, one can thus selectively enhance or suppress the plasmonic energies via a tunable trade-off between intra-band and inter-band screening processes. Specifically, this mechanism can be used to stabilize undamped high energy plasmons that have already been reported in related models. We propose scenarios on how to control and observe these effects in experiments.

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