Faraday rotations, ellipticity and circular dichroism in the magneto-optical spectrum of moiré superlattices
arXiv:2102.09772 · doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ac051f
Abstract
We study the magneto-optical conductivity of a number of Van der Waals heterostructures, namely, twisted bilayer graphene, AB-AB and AB-BA stacked twisted double bilayer graphene and monolayer graphene and AB-stacked bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride. As magnetic field increases, the absorption spectrum exhibits a self-similar recursive pattern reflecting the fractal nature of the energy spectrum. Whilst twisted bilayer graphene displays only weak circular dichroism, monolayer graphene and AB-stacked bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride show specifically strong circular dichroism, owing to strong inversion symmetry breaking properties of the hexagonal boron nitride layer. As, the left and right circularly polarized light interact with these structures differently, plane polarized incident light undergoes a Faraday rotation and gains an ellipticity when transmitted. The size of the respective angles is on the order of a degree.
24 pages, 9 figures
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