Many-body effects of Coulomb interaction on Landau levels in graphene

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive many-body theoretical analysis of Coulomb interaction effects on Landau levels in graphene, achieving good agreement with experiments by including screening, self-energy, and excitonic effects.

Contribution

It introduces a self-consistent screening approach in many-body calculations of Landau levels in graphene, improving accuracy over previous models.

Findings

Good agreement with experimental data for graphene on various substrates

Screening significantly influences Coulomb interaction effects

Self-energy and excitonic effects are crucial for accurate modeling

Abstract

In strong magnetic fields, massless electrons in graphene populate relativistic Landau levels with the square-root dependence of each level energy on its number and magnetic field. Interaction-induced deviations from this single-particle picture were observed in recent experiments on cyclotron resonance and magneto-Raman scattering. Previous attempts to calculate such deviations theoretically using the unscreened Coulomb interaction resulted in overestimated many-body effects. This work presents many-body calculations of cyclotron and magneto-Raman transitions in single-layer graphene in the presence of Coulomb interaction, which is statically screened in the random-phase approximation. We take into account self-energy and excitonic effects as well as Landau level mixing, and achieve good agreement of our results with the experimental data for graphene on different substrates. Important role of a self-consistent treatment of the screening is found.