Classical to quantum crossover of the cyclotron resonance in graphene: A study of the strength of intraband absorption

M. Orlita, I. Crassee, C. Faugeras, A. B. Kuzmenko, F. Fromm, M. Ostler, Th. Seyller, G. Martinez, M. Polini, M. Potemski

Published 2012-05-05, updated 2012-09-10Version 3

We report on absolute magneto-transmission experiments on highly-doped quasi-free-standing epitaxial graphene targeting the classical-to-quantum crossover of the cyclotron resonance. This study allows us to directly extract the carrier density and also other relevant quantities such as the quasiparticle velocity and the Drude weight, which is precisely measured from the strength of the cyclotron resonance. We find that the Drude weight is renormalized with respect to its non-interacting (or random-phase-approximation) value and that the renormalization is tied to the quasiparticle velocity enhancement. This finding is in agreement with recent theoretical predictions, which attribute the renormalization of the Drude weight in graphene to the interplay between broken Galilean invariance and electron-electron interactions.