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We report on the observation of terahertz radiation induced photogalvanic currents in semiconductor heterostructures with one-dimensional lateral periodic potential. The potential is produced by etching a grating into the sample surface.…

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In this paper, we study the near-field radiative energy, linear-momentum, and angular-momentum transfer from a current-biased graphene to nanoparticles. The electric current through the graphene sheet induces nonequilibrium fluctuations,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-19 Huimin Zhu , Gaomin Tang , Lei Zhang , Jun Chen

We report on the observation of a terahertz radiation induced photon drag effect in epitaxially grown $n$- and $p$-type (Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ three dimensional topological insulators with different antimony concentrations $x$…

We theoretically predict, with the Keldysh Green's function combined with the Floquet method, that the AC electric field of a circularly polarized light should induce a Hall effect, in the absence of uniform magnetic fields, in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Oka , Hideo Aoki

We investigate here how the current flows over a bilayer graphene in the presence of an external electric field perpendicularly applied (biased bilayer). Charge density polarization between layers in these systems is known to create a layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 C. J. Páez , D. A. Bahamon , Ana L. C. Pereira

Electrons in the mono-layer atomic sheet of graphene have a long coherence length of the order of micrometers. We will show that this coherence is transmitted into the vacuum via electric field assisted electron emission from the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Zhibing Li , Ningsheng Xu , H. J. Kreuzer

We proposed a minimal model to describe the Floquet band structure of two-dimensional materials with light-induced resonant inter-band transition. We applied it to graphene to study the band features caused by the light irradiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Mou Yang , Zhi-Jun Cai , Rui-Qiang Wang , Yan-Kui Bai

The luminescence caused by the interband transitions of hot carriers in graphene is considered theoretically. The dependencies of emission in mid- and near-IR spectral regions versus energy and concentration of hot carriers are analyzed;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-09 F. T. Vasko , O. G. Balev

Arrays of coupled photonic cavities driven by external lasers represent a highly controllable setup to explore photonic transport. In this paper we address (quasi)-steady states of this system that exhibit photonic currents introduced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Thomas Mertz , Ivana Vasic , Michael J. Hartmann , Walter Hofstetter

Photoexcitation of graphene leads to an interesting sequence of phenomena, some of which can be exploited in optoelectronic devices based on graphene. In particular, the efficient and ultrafast generation of an electron distribution with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-24 K. J. Tielrooij , M. Massicotte , L. Piatkowski , A. Woessner , Q. Ma , P. Jarillo-Herrero , N. F. van Hulst , F. H. L. Koppens

We report a comprehensive study of polarized infrared/terahertz photocurrents in bulk tellurium crystals. We observe different photocurrent contributions and show that, depending on the experimental conditions, they are caused by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 M. D. Moldavskaya , L. E. Golub , S. N. Danilov , V. V. Bel'kov , D. Weiss , S. D. Ganichev

Nonreciprocal photonic devices enable "one-way" light flows and are essential building blocks of optical systems. Here, we investigate an alternative paradigm to break reciprocity and achieve unidirectional subwavelength light propagation…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-26 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

A graphene sheet biased with a drift electric current offers a tantalizing opportunity to attain unidirectional, backscattering-immune, and subwavelength light propagation, as proposed in [T. A. Morgado, M. G. Silveirinha, ACS Photonics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

We show the possibility of inducing an edge charge current by applying time-dependent strain in gapped graphene samples preserving time reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that this edge current has the same origin as the valley Hall response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Abolhassan Vaezi , Nima Abedpour , Reza Asgari , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano

The nonlinear shift current, also known as the bulk photovoltaic current generated by linearly polarized light, has long been known to be absent in crystals with inversion symmetry. Here we argue that a non-zero shift current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Li-kun Shi , Dong Zhang , Kai Chang , Justin C. W. Song

Graphene-like materials can be effectively described by Quantum Electrodynamics in (2+1)-dimensions. In a pristine state, these systems exhibit a symmetry between the nonequivalent Dirac points in the honeycomb lattice. Realistic samples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-08 Ana Julia Mizher , Alfredo Raya , Cristian Villavicencio

We analyze theoretically optical generation of a spin-polarized charge current (photogalvanic effect) and spin polarization in graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. An external magnetic field is applied in the graphene plane, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnaś

The electronic wavefunctions in moir\'e materials are highly sensitive to the details of the local atomic configuration enabling Bloch band geometry and topology to be controlled by stacking and strain. Here we predict that large injection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Arpit Arora , Jian Feng Kong , Justin C. W. Song

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We present a microscopic theory of a photon drag effect that appears in a Bose-Einstein condensate of neutral particles, considering indirect excitons in a double quantum well nanostructure under the action of a circularly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 V. M. Kovalev , M. V. Boev , I. G. Savenko