Impurity cyclotron resonance of anomalous Dirac electrons in graphene
Abstract
We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of anomalous boundstates that have a sharp peak with a width in the probability density inside the potential and a broad peak of size magnetic length outside the potential. We investigate optical matrix elements of anomalous states, and find that they are unusually small and depend sensitively on magnetic field. The effect of many-body interactions on their optical conductivity is investigated using a self-consistent time-dependent Hartree-Fock approach (TDHFA). For a completely filled Landau level we find that an excited electron-hole pair, originating from the optical transition between two anomalous impurity states, is nearly uncorrelated with other electron-hole pairs, although it displays a substantial exchange self-energy effects. This absence of correlation is a consequence of a small vertex correction in comparison to the difference between renormalized transition energies computed within the one electron-hole pair approximation. However, an excited electron-hole pair originating from the optical transition between a normal and an anomalous impurity states can be substantially correlated with other electron-hole states with a significant optical strength.
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@article{arxiv.1406.6765,
title = {Impurity cyclotron resonance of anomalous Dirac electrons in graphene},
author = {S. C. Kim and S. -R. Eric Yang and A. H. MacDonald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6765},
year = {2014}
}
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Accepted in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 15 pages, 12 figures