Anisotropic magneto-optical transport properties in black phosphorus induced by in-plane magnetic field

Abstract

Abstract We study the Landau levels and magneto-optical properties of bulk black phosphorus (BP) subjected to an in-plane magnetic field along the armchair direction based on an effective k ⋅ p Hamiltonian. We analytically obtain the Landau levels by the perturbation method, which agrees well with the results of numerical diagonalization. By using the Kubo formula, we find the magneto-optical transition selection rules and conductance spectra for inter-band transitions are highly anisotropic. In particular, for linearly polarized light along the armchair direction, the magneto-optical transition selection rule is Δ n = 0, where n is the Landau level index. However, for linearly polarized light along the zigzag and stacking direction, the magneto-optical transition selection rules become Δ n = ±1. The magneto-optical conductance excited by linearly polarized light along the armchair direction is two order of magnitude larger than those excited by linearly polarized light along the zigzag and stacking direction because the inter-band coupling only exists in the armchair direction. Our results are useful to detect the band parameters of BP and design magnetically controlled optical devices based on it.