Generalized Toeplitz–Hankel matrices and their application to a layered electron gas

Abstract

Abstract We extend the standard result for the eigenspectrum of the Toeplitz matrix C ij = e−κ|i−j| with 0 ⩽ i, j ⩽ N and κ ∈ C to a combination of a Toeplitz matrix and a Hankel matrix. We apply this result to find the plasma modes of a layered assembly of a two-dimensional electron gas. We find a sum rule relating the geometric mean of the frequencies of the plasma modes to the determinant of this Toeplitz matrix, for which an analytical expression is obtained. We apply the same technique to the generalized case when the layers are not evenly spaced, where the corresponding matrix is not a Toeplitz–Hankel combination. Despite this fact, it is possible to find properties of the eigenspectrum, and the eigenmodes are localized to a few layers instead of extending across the system.