Electronic spectrum and optical properties of Y-shaped Kekule-patterned graphene: Band nesting resonance as an optical signature

Abstract

Employing tight-binding model we investigate the effects of a uniform Y-shaped Kekule lattice distortion on the electronic spectrum and optical conductivity of graphene. We derive a low-energy effective Hamiltonian which is found to be in excellent agreement with one calculated from a diagonalization of the full tight-binding Hamiltonian. Then using the low-energy Hamiltonian and Kubo formula we obtain an analytical expression for the real part of the optical conductivity used to explore the effects of chemical potential, temperature and on-site and hopping energy deviations in details. In particular we find that Y-shaped Kekue-patterned graphene at finite chemical potential displays a large optical response called band nesting resonance. This effect is shown to be robust against increasing temperature, facilitating its detection as an optical signature for the Y-shaped Kekule distortion even at room temperature.

21 pages, 7 figures

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