Polarization Dependent Optical Responses of Graphene Nanoribbons
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Abstract
The optical response of an anisotropic system depends on light's polarization direction. In this study, we perform first-principle calculations on polarization dependent optical absorption spectra of graphene nanoribbons at the RPA and GW-BSE level. We observe significant polarization dependent features. We demonstrate the many-body origins of these features. We also discuss the polarization dependent optical responses of other carbon nanostructures, and connect our work to experimental measurements.
*This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. DMR10-1006184, the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Computational resources have been provided by DOE at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's NERSC facility
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