Optical and Boltzmann conductivities for extrinsic buckled honeycomb lattices at finite temperature

TL;DR

This paper calculates optical and Boltzmann conductivities of doped buckled honeycomb lattices like silicene and germanene at finite temperatures, highlighting the effects of doping and temperature on their electronic transport properties.

Contribution

It introduces a formalism for calculating conductivities considering temperature-dependent chemical potential and doping effects in buckled honeycomb lattices.

Findings

Doping significantly enhances conductivities at intermediate temperatures.

The formalism accounts for inverse relaxation time and transition rates in silicene.

Conductivities are linked to the polarizability and dielectric function.

Abstract

The optical and Boltzmann conductivities have been calculated for doped buckled honeycomb lattice structures such as silicene and germanene, as functions of temperature. By making use of previous results for the temperature-dependent chemical potential for gapped Dirac systems, we have calculated the dynamical polarization function and investigated the way in which initial doping affects its behavior at arbitrary temperature, frequency and wave number. We have calculated the optical and Boltzmann conductivities in the relaxation time approximation. Both these quantities are directly related to the polarizability, with the former being proportional to its long-wavelength limit, whereas the latter depends on static screening and the corresponding dielectric function. We demonstrated that initial doping substantially increases each type of conductivity at intermediate temperatures and we have introduced a formalism for calculating the inverse relaxation time and transition rates for the two inequivalent subbands in silicene.