Energy gap opening in submonolayer lithium on graphene: Local density functional and tight-binding calculations

Details Energy gap opening in submonolayer lithium on graphene: Local density functional and tight-binding calculations Energy gap opening in submonolayer lithium on graphene: Local density functional and tight-binding calculations

2009-01-03

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0310v2

Phys. Rev. B 79, 045417 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

7 pages, 5 figures, published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.045417

The adsorption of an alkali-metal submonolayer on graphene occupying every third hexagon of the honeycomb lattice in a commensurate $(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30^\circ$ arrangement induces an energy gap in the spectrum of graphene. To exemplify this type of band gap, we present \textit{ab initio} density functional theory calculations of the electronic band structure of C$_6$Li. An examination of the lattice geometry of the compound system shows the possibility that the nearest-neighbor hopping amplitudes have alternating values constructed in a Kekul\'e-type structure. The band structure of the textured tight-binding model is calculated and shown to reproduce the expected band gap as well as other characteristic degeneracy removals in the spectrum of graphene induced by lithium adsorption. More generally we also deduce the possibility of energy gap opening in periodic metal on graphene compounds C$_x$M if $x$ is a multiple of 3.

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