Polarizability, plasmons, and screening in 1T′-MoS2 with tilted Dirac bands

Abstract

In the presence of an external vertical electric field and strain, it is evident that 1T′-MoS2 exhibits tilted Dirac bands which are valley-spin-polarized. Additionally, this material experiences a topological phase change between a topological insulator and band insulator for a critical value of the electric field. Using linear response theory, we calculated the polarization function which is in turn employed to obtain the dielectric function. This latter quantity is subsequently utilized in calculations to determine the plasmons dispersion relation, their decay rate and impurity screening corresponding to various levels of doping, the critical applied vertical electric field strengths and the spin-orbit coupling gap in 1T′-MoS2 with tilted Dirac bands.