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In a strong magnetic field, ultra-relativistic electrons or positrons undergo spin flip transitions as they radiate, preferentially spin polarizing in one direction -- the Sokolov-Ternov effect. Here we show that this effect could occur…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 D. Del Sorbo , D. Seipt , T. G. Blackburn , A. G. R. Thomas , C. D. Murphy , J. G. Kirk , C. P. Ridgers

It is shown, by simulation and theory, that circularly or elliptically polarized terahertz radiation can be generated when a static magnetic (B) field is imposed on a gas target along the propagation direction of a two-color laser driver.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 W. -M. Wang , P. Gibbon , Z. -M. Sheng , Y. -T. Li

We report on the observation of the nonlinear intensity dependence of the bulk photogalvanic current and photoconductivity in the twisted graphene with small twist angles close to the second magical angle. We show that terahertz radiation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 S. Hubmann , P. Soul , G. Di Battista , M. Hild , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. K. Efetov , S. D. Ganichev

We theoretically investigate the ultrafast terahertz(THz) properties of monolayer graphene. The analytical formulations of the photon carrier, electric polarization and optical current are obtained by solving the Bloch-equations in present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Q. Jin , H. M. Dong , K. Han , X. F. Wang

We present an experimental observation of non-linear up- and down-converted optical luminescence of graphene and thin graphite subject to picosecond infrared laser pulses. We show that the excitation yields to a high density electron-hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-01 Rainer J. Stoehr , Roman Kolesov , Jens Pflaum , Joerg Wrachtrup

Strain fields in graphene giving rise to pseudomagnetic fields have received much attention due to the possibility of mimicking real magnetic fields with magnitudes of greater than 100 Tesla. We examine systems with such strains confined to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

In the presence of strong magnetic fields the electronic bandstructure of graphene drastically changes. The Dirac cone collapses into discrete non-equidistant Landau levels, which can be externally tuned by changing the magnetic field. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Samuel Brem , Florian Wendler , Ermin Malic

We theoretically investigate the interaction of an ultrastrong femtosecond-long linearly polarized optical pulse with AB-stacked bilayer graphene. The pulse excite electrons from the valence into the conduction band, resulting in finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Pardeep Kumar , Thakshila M. Herath , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman

Ionization of hydrogen-like ions by intense, circularly polarized laser pulses is analyzed under the scope of the relativistic strong-field approximation. We show that, for specific parameters of the laser field, the energy spectra of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska

Semiconductor spin lasers are distinguished from their conventional counterparts by the presence of spin-polarized carriers. The transfer of angular momentum of the spin-polarized carriers to photons provides important opportunities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gaofeng Xu , David Cao , Velimir Labinac , Igor Žutić

We theoretically predict a nonequilibrium phase transition in quantum spin systems induced by a laser, which provides a purely quantum-mechanical way of coherently controlling magnetization. Namely, when a circularly polarized laser is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-11 Shintaro Takayoshi , Hideo Aoki , Takashi Oka

Employing electron spin instead of charge to develop spintronic devices holds the merits of low-power consumption in information technologies. Meanwhile, the demand for increasing speed in spintronics beyond current CMOS technology has…

Graphene plasmons confine incident terahertz fields far below the diffraction limit and, when hosted by a gate-defined Fabry-Perot cavity, enable electrically tunable, frequency-selective photodetectors. In a magnetic field, these plasmons…

We report a real-time first-principles study of ultrafast spin injection in a WSe$_2$-graphene heterobilayer under circularly polarized laser irradiation, using time-dependent density functional theory. Contrary to conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Shunsuke Yamada , Arqum Hashmi , Tomohito Otobe

Spin current flowing between femtosecond laser pulse (fsLP)-driven ferromagnetic metal and adjacent normal metal (NM) hosting strong spin-orbit coupling is invariably invoked to explain terahertz (THz) radiation believed to be emitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Ali Kefayati , Yafei Ren , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , Lars Gundlach , John Q. Xiao , Branislav K. Nikolic

The development of laser science and technology have stimulated the study of condensed matter physics, especially, dynamical or non-equilibrium nature in solids. The laser technique in terahertz (THz) regime, whose photon energy is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-20 Masahiro Sato

We consider unconventional magnets with and without spin-singlet $s$-wave superconductivity and demonstrate the emergence of spin triplet states due to light drives. In particular, we find that a high-frequency linearly polarized light…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-16 Pei-Hao Fu , Sayan Mondal , Jun-Feng Liu , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

We study the intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene, which has been discovered experimentally in Han $et$ $al$ arXiv:2408.15233. We construct a minimal model for the intravalley spin-polarized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-20 Yang-Zhi Chou , Jihang Zhu , Sankar Das Sarma

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene displays a complex phase diagram as a function of flat band filling, featuring compressibility cascade transitions and a variety of competing ground states with broken spin, valley and point group…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Fernando Peñaranda , Héctor Ochoa , Fernando de Juan

A laser pulse composed of a fundamental and properly phased second harmonic exhibits an asymmetric electric field that can drive a time-dependent current of photoionized electrons. The current produces an ultrashort burst of terahertz (THz)…