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We report the observation of the circular ac Hall effect where the current is solely driven by the crossed ac electric and magnetic fields of circularly polarized radiation. Illuminating an unbiased monolayer sheet of graphene with…

We develop a hydrodynamic theory of charge and heat currents induced by traveling waves, such as surface acoustic waves, in graphene devices near charge neutrality. The currents depend on the intrinsic conductivity and viscosity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 E. Kirkinis , A. Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

Optical pump-terahertz probe spectroscopy has been used to investigate ultrafast photo-induced charge carrier transport in 3.4 $\mu$m wide graphene ribbons upon scaling the optical pump intensity. For low pump fluences, the deposited pump…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-02 Arvind Singh , Hynek Němec , Jan Kunc , Petr Kužel

Topological insulator materials have been extensively studied in the field of condensed matter physics because nontrivial topology in the electronic state gives rise to a novel spin-polarized Dirac dispersion on the surface. To describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-31 Yoshito Onishi , Zhi Ren , Mario Novak , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando , Koichiro Tanaka

Coherent one photon ($2 \omega$) and two photon ($ \omega$) electronic excitations are studied for graphene sheets and for carbon nanotubes using a long wavelength theory for the low energy electronic states. For graphene sheets we find…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 E. J. Mele , P. Kral , D. Tomanek

The dynamics of photo-generated electron-hole pairs in solids are dictated by many-body interactions such as electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering. Hence, understanding and controlling these scattering channels is crucial for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-13 Isabella Gierz

We continue the study of surface corrugations influence on the monolayer graphene local electromagnetic response in terahertz range we started earlier. The effects of radiative decay, double-valley structure of charge carriers spectrum in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yu. A. Firsov , N. E. Firsova

We report the observation of the terahertz-induced ratchet effect in graphene-based two-dimensional (2D) metamaterials. The metamaterial consists of a graphite gate patterned with an array of triangular antidots placed under a graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 I. Yahniuk , M. Hild , L. E. Golub , J. Amann , J. Eroms , D. Weiss , Wun-Hao Kang , Ming-Hao Liu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , S. D. Ganichev

Low-dimensional carbon nanostructures, such as single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and graphene, offer new opportunities for terahertz science and technology. Being zero-gap systems with a linear, photon-like energy dispersion, metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 L. Ren , Q. Zhang , S. Nanot , I. Kawayama , M. Tonouchi , J. Kono

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

Recent measurements of the conductivity of nanoperforated graphene are interpreted in terms of edges states existing near the edge of each nanohole. The perimetric quantization of edge states should result in the formation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 V. V. Enaldiev , V. A. Volkov

A beam of linearly polarized light transmitted through magnetically biased graphene can have its axis of polarization rotated by several degrees after passing the graphene sheet. This large Faraday effect is due to the action of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 Jürgen Schiefele , Luis Martin-Moreno , Francisco Guinea

The Teraherz (THz) photoresponse of a two-dimensional electron gas in the quantum Hall regime is investigated. We use a sample structure which is topologically equivalent to a Corbino geometry combined with a cross-gate technique. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-28 Christian Notthoff , Kevin Rachor , Detlef Heitmann , Axel Lorke

We show that charge carrier transport in graphene exhibit sharp resonances in the presence of spatially and temporarily modulated scattering. Resonances occur when the period of an applied a-c field corresponds to the time taken by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Samwel Sekwao , Jean-Pierre Leburton

The temporal dynamics of charge carriers determines the speed with which electronics can be realized in condensed matter, and their direct manipulation with optical fields promises electronic processing at unprecedented petahertz…

We study the interaction between polarized terahertz (THz) radiation and micro-structured large-area graphene in transmission geometry. In order to efficiently couple the radiation into the two-dimensional material, a lateral periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-06 C. Sorger , S. Preu , J. Schmidt , S. Winnerl , Y. V. Bludov , N. M. R. Peres , M. I. Vasilevskiy , H. B. Weber

We study theoretically the interaction of twisted light with graphene. The light-matter interaction matrix elements between the tight-binding states of electrons in graphene are determined near the Dirac points. We examine the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. B. Farías , G. F. Quinteiro , P. I. Tamborenea

We show that the optical excitation of graphene with polarized light leads to the pure valley current where carriers in the valleys counterflow. The current in each valley originates from asymmetry of optical transitions and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko , M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

We examine the low-energy physics of graphene in the presence of a circularly polarized electric field in the terahertz regime. Specifically, we derive a general expression for the dynamical polarizability of graphene irradiated by an ac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Maria Busl , Gloria Platero , Antti-Pekka Jauho