Exotic electronic physics including correlated insulating states and fractional Chern insulators have been observed in twisted bilayer graphene in a magnetic field when the Fermi velocity vanishes; however, a question remains as to the stability of these states, which is controlled by the gap to the first excited state. Free-space terahertz magneto-optics can directly probe the gap to charge excitations, which bounds the stability of electronic states, but this measurement has thus far been inaccessible due to the micron size of twisted bilayer graphene samples, while the wavelength of terahertz light is up to 1 mm. Here we leverage advances in fabrication to create twisted bilayer graphene samples over $5\times 5$ mm in size with a uniform twist angle and study the magnetic field dependence of the cyclotron resonance by a complex Faraday rotation experiment in $p$-doped large angle twisted bilayer graphene. These measurements directly probe charge excitations in inter-Landau level transitions and determine the Fermi velocity as a function of twist angle.

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• Density of states
• Faraday effect
• Hall effect
• Landau levels
• Magneto-optics
• Twistronics
• Twisted bilayer graphene
• Cyclotron resonance
• Terahertz spectroscopy
• Tight-binding model