Theory of inter-Landau level magnetoexcitons in bilayer graphene

TL;DR

This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding inter-Landau level magnetoexcitons in bilayer graphene under high magnetic fields, revealing how Landau level mixing influences their spectra and orbital properties, with implications for experimental detection.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed theoretical analysis of magnetoexciton modes in bilayer graphene, highlighting the effects of Landau level mixing on their dispersion and orbital characteristics.

Findings

Landau level mixing significantly alters magnetoexciton spectra.

Predicted changes in orbital character at finite wave length.

Results are relevant for inelastic light scattering experiments.

Abstract

If bilayer graphene is placed in a high perpendicular magnetic field, several quantum Hall plateaus are observed at low enough temperatures. Of these, the $\sigma_{xy}=4ne^2/h$ sequence ($n\neq0$) is explained by standard Landau quantization, while the other integer plateaus arise due to interactions. The low-energy excitations in both cases are magnetoexcitons, whose dispersion relation depends on single- and many-body effects in a complicated manner. Analyzing the magnetoexciton modes in bilayer graphene, we find that the mixing of different Landau level transitions not only renormalizes them, but essentially changes their spectra and orbital character at finite wave length. These predictions can be probed in inelastic light scattering experiments.