Rich magneto-absorption spectra of AAB-stacked trilayer graphene

TN Do, PH Shih, CP Chang, CY Lin… - Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
TN Do, PH Shih, CP Chang, CY Lin, MF Lin
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016pubs.rsc.org
A generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the feature-rich magneto-
optical properties of AAB-stacked trilayer graphene. Three intragroup and six intergroup
inter-Landau-level (inter-LL) optical excitations largely enrich magneto-absorption peaks. In
general, the former are much higher than the latter, depending on the phases and
amplitudes of LL wavefunctions. The absorption spectra exhibit single-or twin-peak
structures which are determined by quantum modes, LL energy spectra and Fermion …
A generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the feature-rich magneto-optical properties of AAB-stacked trilayer graphene. Three intragroup and six intergroup inter-Landau-level (inter-LL) optical excitations largely enrich magneto-absorption peaks. In general, the former are much higher than the latter, depending on the phases and amplitudes of LL wavefunctions. The absorption spectra exhibit single- or twin-peak structures which are determined by quantum modes, LL energy spectra and Fermion distribution. The splitting LLs, with different localization centers (2/6 and 4/6 positions in a unit cell), can generate very distinct absorption spectra. There exist extra single peaks because of LL anti-crossings. AAB, AAA, ABA, and ABC stackings considerably differ from one another in terms of the inter-LL category, frequency, intensity, and structure of absorption peaks. The main characteristics of LL wavefunctions and energy spectra and the Fermi–Dirac function are responsible for the configuration-enriched magneto-optical spectra.
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