Optical conductivity of single-layer graphene induced by temporal mass-gap fluctuations

Details Optical conductivity of single-layer graphene induced by temporal mass-gap fluctuations Optical conductivity of single-layer graphene induced by temporal mass-gap fluctuations

2011-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/1104.0503v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We consider the dynamics of charge carriers in single-layer graphene that are subject to random temporal fluctuations of their mass gap. The optical conductivity is calculated by incorporating the quantum-stochastic time evolution into the standard linear-response (Kubo) theory. We find that, for an intermediate range of frequencies below the average gap size, electron transport is enhanced by fluctuations. At the same time, in the limit of high as well as low frequencies, the conductivity is suppressed as the variance of gap fluctuations increases. In particular, the dc conductivity is always suppressed by a random temporal mass with nonvanishing mean value and vanishes in the zero-temperature limit. Our results are complementary to those obtained recently for static random-gap disorder in finite-size systems.

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