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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Calixto, Manuel author Mayorgas, Alberto author Cordero Tejedor, Nicolás A. author Romera, Elvira author Castaños Garza, Octavio Héctor author 2024-03 We analyze the magneto-optical conductivity (and related magnitudes like transmittance and Faraday rotation of the irradiated polarized light) of some elemental two-dimensional Dirac materials of group IV (graphene analogues, buckled honeycomb lattices, like silicene, germanene, stannane, etc.), group V (phosphorene), and zincblende heterostructures (like HgTe/CdTe quantum wells) near the Dirac and gamma points, under out-of-plane magnetic and electric fields, to characterize topological-band insulator phase transitions and their critical points. We provide plots of the Faraday angle and transmittance as a function of the polarized light frequency, for different external electric and magnetic fields, chemical potential, HgTe layer thickness and temperature, to tune the material magneto-optical properties. We have shown that absortance/transmittance acquires extremal values at the critical point, where the Faraday angle changes sign, thus providing fine markers of the topological phase transition. In the case of non-topological materials as phosphorene, a minimum of the transmittance is also observed due to the energy gap closing by an external electric field. 2542-4653 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8854 10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.3.077 2542-4653 Faraday rotation and transmittance as markers of topological phase transitions in 2D materials