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Graphene under bichromatic driving: Commensurability and spatio-temporal symmetries

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-11-17 v1

Abstract

We study the non-linear current response of a Dirac model that is coupled to two time-periodic electro-magnetic fields with different frequencies. We distinguish between incommensurable and commensurable frequencies, the latter characterized by their ratio p/q with co-prime integers p and q. Coupling the (effective) two-level system to a dissipative bath ensures a well-defined long-time solution for the reduced density operator and, thus, the current. We then analyze the spatio-temporal symmetries that force certain current components to vanish and close with conclusions for directed average currents.

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@article{arxiv.1910.09237,
  title  = {Graphene under bichromatic driving: Commensurability and spatio-temporal symmetries},
  author = {Sigmund Kohler and Tobias Stauber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09237},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures