Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in such systems is reduced either by an in-plane electric field or an intrinsic tilt of the Dirac cones, the allowed dipolar optical transitions evolve from a few selected transitions into a wide fan of interband transitions. We show that the Lorentz covariance of the low-energy carriers allows for a concise analysis of the emerging magneto-optical properties. We predict that infrared absorption spectra yield quantitative information on the tilted Dirac cone structure in organic compounds such as α-(BEDT-TTF) 2 I 3 .

We study the collective modes of a low-energy continuum model of the quasi-two-dimensional electron liquid in a layer of the organic compound α-(BEDT-TTF) 2 I 3 in a perpendicular magnetic field. As testified by zero magnetic field transport experiments and ab initio theory, this material hosts both massless and massive low-energy carriers, the former being described by two tilted and anisotropic Dirac cones. The polarizability of these cones is anisotropic, and two sets of magnetoplasmon modes occur between any two cyclotron resonances. We show that the tilt of the cones causes a unique intervalley damping effect: the upper hybrid mode of one cone is damped by the particle-hole continuum of the other cone in generic directions. We analyze how the presence of massive carriers affects the response of the system, and demonstrate how doping can tune α-(BEDT-TTF) 2 I 3 between regimes of isotropic and anisotropic screening.

If bilayer graphene is placed in a strong perpendicular magnetic field, several quantum Hall plateaus are observed at low enough temperatures. Of these, the σxy = 4ne 2 /h sequence (n = 0) is explained by standard Landau quantization, while the other integer plateaus arise due to interactions. The low-energy excitations in both cases are magnetoexcitons, whose dispersion relation depends on single-and many-body effects in a complicated manner. Analyzing the magnetoexciton modes in bilayer graphene, we find that the mixing of different Landau level transitions not only renormalizes them, but essentially changes their spectra and orbital character at finite wave length. These predictions can be probed in inelastic light scattering experiments.