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Localized Collective Excitations in Doped Graphene in Strong Magnetic Fields

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-30 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We consider collective excitations in graphene with filled Landau levels (LL's) in the presence of an external potential due to a single charged donor D+ or acceptor A- impurity. We show that localized collective modes split off the magnetoplasmon continuum and, in addition, quasibound states are formed within the continuum. A study of the evolution of the strengths and energies of magneto-optical transitions is performed for integer filling factors nu = 1, 2, 3, 4 of the lowest LL. We predict impurity absorption peaks above as well as below the cyclotron resonance. We show that the single particle electron-hole symmetry of graphene leads to a duality between the spectra of collective modes for the D+ and A-. The duality shows up as a set of the D+ and A- magneto-absorption peaks having same energies, but active in different circular polarizations.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4176,
  title  = {Localized Collective Excitations in Doped Graphene in Strong Magnetic Fields},
  author = {A. M. Fischer and A. B. Dzyubenko and R. A. Roemer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4176},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures (only 3 captions). Included a more qualitative discussion of the results and method, in particular addressing the issue of screening. Paper lengthened and more references added