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Motivated by investigation of black hole properties in the lab, some interesting subjects such as analogue gravity and transformation optics are generated. In this paper, we look for the analogies between the geometry of a gravitating…

General Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 S. H. Hendi , Z. S. Taghadomi , A. Ghasempour Ardakani

We consider a moving refractive index perturbation in an optical medium as an optical analogue to waves under the influence of gravity. We describe the dielectric medium by the Lagrangian of the Hopfield model. We supplement the field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Maxime J Jacquet , Friedrich Koenig

Atomically thin materials such as graphene are uniquely responsive to charge transfer from adjacent materials, making them ideal charge transport layers in phototransistor devices. Effective implementation of organic semiconductors as a…

We determine the optimum topology of quasi-one dimensional nonlinear optical structures using generalized quantum graph models. Quantum graphs are relational graphs endowed with a metric and a multiparticle Hamiltonian acting on the edges,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rick Lytel , Shoresh Shafei , Mark G. Kuzyk

We demonstrate a fiber-integrated quantum optical circulator that is operated by a single atom and that relies on the chiral interaction between emitters and transversally confined light. Like its counterparts in classical optics, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Michael Scheucher , Adèle Hilico , Elisa Will , Jürgen Volz , Arno Rauschenbeutel

In this article, we investigate the temperature and chemical potential dependence of the optical conductivity of graphene, within a field theoretical representation in the continuum approximation, arising from an underlying tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Horacio Falomir , Enrique Muñoz , Marcelo Loewe , Renato Zamora

The motion of massless Dirac-electrons in graphene mimics the propagation of photons. This makes it possible to control the charge-carriers with components based on geometrical-optics and has led to proposals for an all-graphene…

Recent advances in chiral cavities that can couple coherently to two-dimensional materials have opened a powerful route to reshape electronic topology without an external drive. Here we establish the bulk-boundary correspondence for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Volker Karle , Oriana K. Diessel , Vasil Rokaj , Ceren B. Dağ

We provide an updated study of some electronic properties of graphene nanoscrolls, exploiting a related curved space Dirac equation for the charge carriers. To this end, we consider an explicit parametrization in cylindrical coordinates,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-19 Antonio Gallerati

The remarkable gapless and linear band structure of graphene opens up new carrier relaxation channels bridging the valence and the conduction band. These Auger scattering processes change the number of charge carriers and can give rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Ermin Malic , Torben Winzer , Florian Wendler , Andreas Knorr

The rigorous resource framework of quantum coherence has been set up recently and excited a wide variety of interests. Here we show that a quantum cavity optomechanical system, as an emerging platform, can behave with a certain value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Qiang Zheng , Jianwei Xu , Yao Yao , Yong Li

We compute the optical conductivity of graphene beyond the usual Dirac cone approximation, giving results that are valid in the visible region of the conductivity spectrum. The effect of next nearest neighbor hoping is also discussed. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , A. K. Geim

The physics of graphene is acting as a bridge between quantum field theory and condensed matter physics due to the special quality of the graphene quasiparticles behaving as massless two dimensional Dirac fermions. Moreover, the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea

We study single-photon scattering by atoms in arrays of one-way waveguides. We investigate both chiral and antichiral arrays, where the one-way waveguides are aligned in the same and opposite directions, respectively. In the chiral array,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Peng Wang , Erik Hiltunen , John C Schotland

The paper scrutinizes both the similarities and the differences between the classical optics and quantum mechanical theories in phase space, especially between the Wigner distribution functions defined in the respective phase spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Daniela Dragoman

Position measurements at the quantum level are vital for many applications, but also challenging. Typically, methods based on optical phase shifts are used, but these methods are often weak and difficult to apply to many materials. An…

This paper is aimed to review and promote the main applications of the methods of Quantum Field Theory to description of quantum effects in graphene. We formulate the effective electromagnetic action following from the Dirac model for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-22 Ignat V. Fialkovsky , Dmitri V. Vassilevich

Carbon nanotubes are a feverishly-studied topic in the scientific community as of late. Mathematically, they can be modeled with a quantum graph. Here we consider a structure somewhat similar to carbon nanotubes, another quantum graph that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Jeremy Tillay

Graphene is an ideal material to study fundamental Coulomb- and phonon-induced carrier scattering processes. Its remarkable gapless and linear band structure opens up new carrier relaxation channels. In particular, Auger scattering bridging…

Theory of scattering of massive chiral fermions in bilayer graphene by radial symmetric potential is developed. It is shown that in the case when the electron wavelength is much larger than the radius of the potential the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-02 M. I. Katsnelson