Published April 26, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Magneto-optical conductivity of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the presence of proximity-induced exchange interaction and external electrical field

  • 1. School of Physics and Astronomy and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
  • 3. Micro Optical Instruments Inc., Shenzhen 518118, China
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium

Description

We theoretically investigate the magneto-optical (MO) properties of monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the presence of external electrical and quantizing magnetic fields and of the proximity-induced exchange interaction. The corresponding Landau Level (LL) structure is studied by solving the Schrödinger equation and the spin polarization in ML-TMDs under the action of the magnetic field is evaluated. The impact of trigonal warping on LLs and MO absorption is examined. Furthermore, the longitudinal MO conductivity is calculated through the dynamical dielectric function under the standard random-phase approximation (RPA) with the Kubo formula. We take ML-MoS2 as an example to examine the effects of proximity-induced exchange interaction, external electrical and magnetic fields on the MO conductivity induced via intra- and interband electronic transitions among the LLs. For intraband electronic transitions within the conduction or valence bands, we can observe two absorption peaks in terahertz (THz) frequency range. While the interband electronic transitions between conduction and valence LLs show a series of absorption peaks in the visible range. We find that the proximity-induced exchange interaction, the carrier density, the strengths of the external electrical and magnetic fields can effectively modulate the positions of the absorption peaks and the shapes of the MO absorption spectra. The results obtained from this study can benefit to an in-depth understanding of the MO properties of ML-TMDs which can be potentially applied for magneto-optic, spintronic, and valleytronic devices working in visible to THz frequency bandwidths.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.109.165441;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001809; 10.13039/501100017610;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
16
Journal Page Range
14 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
12004331; U2230122; U2067207; 12364009; KQTD20190929173954826; 202301AT070120; XDYC-QNRC-2022-0492
Notes
Contact Email: yiming.xiao@ynu.edu.cn; Contact Email: wenxu_issp@aliyun.com; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
National Natural Science Foundation of China; Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Program; Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects; Xingdian Talent Plans for Young Talents of Yunnan Province