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Polarization Dependence of Optical Transitions in Graphene Nanoribbons

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2011-08-02 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The universality of kk-dependent electron-photon and electron-phonon matrix elements is discussed for graphene nanoribbons and carbon nanotubes. An electron undergoes a change in wavevector in the direction of broken translational symmetry, depending on the light polarization direction. We suggest that this phenomenon originates from a microscopic feature of chirality.

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@article{arxiv.1108.0041,
  title  = {Polarization Dependence of Optical Transitions in Graphene Nanoribbons},
  author = {K. Sasaki and K. Kato and Y. Tokura and T. Sogawa and R. Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0041},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures