The influence of a conducting surface on the conductivity of graphene

Abstract

In the present paper, using Pseudo-Quantum Electrodynamics to describe the interaction between electrons in graphene, we investigate the longitudinal and optical conductivities of a neutral graphene sheet near a grounded perfectly conducting surface, with calculations up to 2-loop perturbation order. We show that the longitudinal conductivity increases as we bring the conducting surface closer to the graphene sheet. On the other hand, although the optical conductivity initially increases with the proximity of the plate, it reaches a maximum value, tending, afterwards, to the minimal conductivity in the ideal limit of no separation between graphene and the conducting surface. We recover the correspondent results in the literature when the distance to the plate tends to infinity. Our results may be useful as an alternative way to control the longitudinal and optical conductivities of graphene.