Pseudospin in optical and transport properties of graphene

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Oct 7;107(15):156801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.156801. Epub 2011 Oct 3.

Abstract

We show that the pseudospin, being an additional degree of freedom for carriers in graphene, can be efficiently controlled by means of the electron-electron interactions which, in turn, can be manipulated by changing the substrate. In particular, an out-of-plane pseudospin component can occur leading to a zero-field Hall current as well as to polarization-sensitive interband optical absorption.