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Terahertz magneto-optical properties of graphene hydrodynamic electron liquid

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2021-09-17 v1

Abstract

The discovery of the hydrodynamic electron liquid (HEL) in graphene [D. Bandurin \emph{et al.}, Science {\bf 351}, 1055 (2016) and J. Crossno \emph{et al.}, Science {\bf 351}, 1058 (2016)] has marked the birth of the solid-state HEL which can be probed near room temperature in a table-top setup. Here we examine the terahertz (THz) magneto-optical (MO) properties of a graphene HEL. Considering the case where the magnetic length lB=/eBl_B=\sqrt{\hbar/eB} is comparable to the mean-free path leel_{ee} for electron-electron interaction in graphene, the MO conductivities are obtained by taking a momentum balance equation approach on the basis of the Boltzmann equation. We find that when lBleel_B\sim l_{ee}, the viscous effect in a HEL can weaken significantly the THz MO effects such as cyclotron resonance and Faraday rotation. The upper hybrid and cyclotron resonance magnetoplasmon modes ω±\omega_\pm are also obtained through the RPA dielectric function. The magnetoplasmons of graphene HEL at large wave-vector regime are affected by the viscous effect, and results in red-shifts of the magnetoplasmon frequencies. We predict that the viscosity in graphene HEL can affect strongly the magneto-optical and magnetoplasmonic properties, which can be verified experimentally.

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@article{arxiv.2109.07613,
  title  = {Terahertz magneto-optical properties of graphene hydrodynamic electron liquid},
  author = {L. F. Man and W. Xu and Y. M. Xiao and H. Wen and L. Ding and B. Van Duppen and F. M. Peeters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07613},
  year   = {2021}
}