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Plasmons and screening in monolayer and multilayer black phosphorus

Abstract

Black phosphorus exhibits a high degree of band anisotropy. However, we found that its in-plane static screening remains relatively isotropic for momenta relevant to elastic long-range scattering processes. On the other hand, the collective electronic excitations in the system exhibit a strong anisotropy. Band non-parabolicity leads to a plasmon frequency which scales as nβn^{\beta}, where nn is the carrier concentration, and β<12\beta<\tfrac{1}{2}. Screening and charge distribution in the out-of-plane direction are also studied using a non-linear Thomas-Fermi model

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