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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 106, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.146803
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- Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
- Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion (CNEEC) under DOE
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We investigate the role of substrates on the collective excitations of graphene by using a first-principles implementation of the density response function within the random-phase approximation. Specifically, we consider graphene adsorbed on SiC(0001) and Al(111) as representative examples of a semiconducting and metallic substrate. On SiC(0001), the long wavelength pi plasmons are significantly damped although their energies remain almost unaltered. On Al(111), the long wavelength pi plasmons are completely quenched due to the coupling to the metal surface plasmon. The strong damping of the plasmon excitations occurs despite the fact that the single-particle band structure of graphene is completely unaffected by the substrates illustrating the nonlocal nature of the effect.
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