Magneto-optical conductance of Kane fermion gas in low frequencies

Abstract

Kane fermion is the counterpart of the Dirac fermion with pseudospin-1. Due to the existence of a bunch of gapless modes associated with Landau levels, the magnetic transport property of Kane fermion gas is very different from that of the Dirac semimetal. We calculate the magneto-optical conductance of the Kane fermion gas. We find that these gapless modes will contribute to a series of resonant peaks in low frequencies. We find that these peaks can explain the low frequency absorbance spectrum in a recent experiment for the Kane fermion material Hg _1− _x Cd _x Te.

Keywords

• magneto-optical conductance
• Kane fermion
• gapless modes in Landau levels