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Terahertz relativistic spatial solitons in doped graphene metamaterials

Optics 2011-07-29 v1 Other Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose an electrically tunable graphene-based metamaterial showing a large nonlinear optical response at THz frequencies, which we calculate analytically for the first time to our knowledge and arises from the intraband current. The structure sustains a novel type of stable two-dimensional spatial solitary wave, a relativistic version of the Townes soliton. These results can be also applied to any material exhibiting a conical dispersion with massless Dirac fermions.

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@article{arxiv.1107.5803,
  title  = {Terahertz relativistic spatial solitons in doped graphene metamaterials},
  author = {Haiming Dong and Claudio Conti and Fabio Biancalana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.5803},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures