The interaction between electrons and plasmons in trilayer graphene is investigated within the Overhauser approach resulting in the “plasmaron” quasiparticle. This interaction is cast into a field theoretical problem, and its effect on the energy spectrum is calculated using improved Wigner-Brillouin perturbation theory. The plasmaron spectrum is shifted with respect to the bare electron spectrum by $\Delta E\left(\mathbf{k}\right)\sim 150-200\mathrm{meV}$ for ABC stacked trilayer graphene and for ABA trilayer graphene by $\Delta E\left(\mathbf{k}\right)\sim 30-150\mathrm{meV}$ [$\Delta E\left(\mathbf{k}\right)\sim 1-5\mathrm{meV}$] for the hyperbolic (linear) part of the spectrum. The shift in general increases with the electron concentration $n_e$ and electron momentum. The dispersion of plasmarons is more pronounced in ABC stacked than in ABA stacked trilayer graphene, because of the different energy band structure and their different plasmon dispersion.

• Received 27 September 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.195423