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Magneto-optical transport properties of monolayer WSe2

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-07-26 v1

Abstract

The recent experimental realization of a high quality WSe% _{2} leads to the possibility of magneto-optical measurements and the manipulation of the spin and valley degrees of freedom. We study the influence of the very strong spin-orbit coupling and of the anisotropic lifting of the valley pseudospin degeneracy on its magnetotransport properties. The energy spectrum of WSe2_{2} is derived and discussed in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field BB. Correspondingly we evaluate the magneto-optical Hall conductivity and the optical longitudinal conductivity as functions of the frequency, magnetic field, and Fermi energy. They are strongly influenced by the field BB and the strong spin splitting. The former exhibits valley polarization and the latter beatings of oscillations. The magneto-optical responses can be tuned in two different regimes: the mictrowave-to-terahertz regime and the visible-frequency one. The absorption peaks involving the n=0n=0 LL appear in between these two regimes and show a magnetic control of the spin and valley splittings. We also evaluate the power absorption spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1607.06917,
  title  = {Magneto-optical transport properties of monolayer WSe2},
  author = {M. Tahir and P. Vasilopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06917},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages and 11 Figs. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.06780