• 文献标题:   Theory of optical activity in doped systems with application to twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHANG K, ZHENG Z, SIPE JE, CHENG JL
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
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  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.106.245405
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

We theoretically study the optical activity in a doped system and derive the optical activity tensor from a light wave vector dependent linear optical conductivity. Although the light-matter interaction is introduced through the velocity gauge from a minimal-coupling Hamiltonian, we find that the well-known "false divergences" problem can be avoided in practice if the electronic states are described by a finite-band effective Hamiltonian, such as a few-band tight-binding model. The expression we obtain for the optical activity tensor is in good numerical agreement with a recent theory derived for an undoped topologically trivial gapped system. We apply our theory to the optical activity of a gated twisted bilayer graphene, with a detailed discussion of the dependence of the results on twist angle, chemical potential, gate voltage, and location of rotation center forming the twisted bilayer graphene.