Rich magneto-absorption spectra in AAB-stacked trilayer graphene

TL;DR

This paper develops a generalized tight-binding model to explore the complex magneto-optical absorption spectra of AAB-stacked trilayer graphene, revealing rich features influenced by Landau levels, stacking configurations, and quantum effects.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive model for AAB-stacked trilayer graphene's magneto-optical properties, highlighting the effects of stacking and Landau level interactions on absorption spectra.

Findings

Multiple intragroup and intergroup Landau-level excitations enrich absorption peaks.

Stacking configurations significantly affect the absorption spectra's structure and intensity.

Landau level anticrossings lead to additional single peaks in spectra.

Abstract

The 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 the 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 the single- or twin-peak structures which are determined by the 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 anticrosings. AAB, AAA, ABA, and ABC stackings quite 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.