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We report on the fate of the quantum Hall effect in graphene under strong laser illumination. By using Floquet theory combined with both a low energy description and full tight-binding models, we clarify the selection rules, the quasienergy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Huamán , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro , Gonzalo Usaj

We demonstrate non-adiabatic charge pumping utilizing a sequence of coherent oscillations between a superconducting island and two reservoirs. Our method, based on pulsed quantum state manipulations, allows to speedup charge pumping to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Hoehne , Yu. A. Pashkin , O. V. Astafiev , M. Möttönen , J. P. Pekola , J. S. Tsai

We theoretically investigate the phenomena of adiabatic quantum charge pumping through a normal-insulator-superconductor-insulator-normal (NISIN) setup of silicene within the scattering matrix formalism. Assuming thin barrier limit, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Ganesh C. Paul , Arijit Saha

Effects of disorder on the electronic transport properties of graphene are strongly affected by the Dirac nature of the charge carriers in graphene. This is particularly pronounced near the Dirac point, where relativistic charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

We have investigated the transport characteristics of an electron pump consisting of an asymmetric double quantum dot at zero bias voltage which is subject to electromagnetic radiation. Depending on the energies of the intermediate states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. H. Stoof , Yu. V. Nazarov

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

We utilize a time-periodic ratchet-like potential modulation imposed onto a two-dimensional electron system inside a GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructure to evoke a net dc pumping current. The modulation is induced by two sets of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Mueller , A. Wuertz , A. Lorke , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

Non-equilibrium two-parameter pumping transport through graphene ribbons, attached to reservoirs is described. A tight-binding model is solved using Keldysh formalism, and the crossover between adiabatic and non-adiabatic regimes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 Tejinder Kaur , Liliana Arrachea , Nancy Sandler

The spin orbit effect in graphene is too muted to have any observable significance with respect to its application in spintronics. However, graphene technology is too valuable to be rendered impotent to spin transport. In this communication…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-07 Firoz Islam , Colin Benjamin

Based on the scattering matrix approach, we systematically investigate the anharmonic effect of the pumped current in double-barrier structures with adiabatic time-modulation of two sinusoidal AC driven potential heights. The pumped current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Wei-Yin Deng , Ke-Ju Zhong , Rui Zhu , Wen-Ji Deng

We demonstrate the first experimental observation of coherent population oscillation, an optical analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency, in graphene based on phase sensitive pump-probe system. Degenerate four-wave-mixing…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-08 Lei Gao , Tao Zhu , Min Liu , Wei Huang , Yu Jia Li , Cong Gao

Spin-dependent diffraction occurs in helimagnet-related transport processes. In this work, we investigated quantum pumping properties in the normal-metal/helimagnet/normal-metal heterostructure driven by two out of phase time-dependent gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rui Zhu , Li-Juan Cui

We experimentally investigate electrical transport properties of graphene, which is a two dimensional (2D) conductor with relativistic energy dispersion relation. By investigating single- and bi-layer graphene devices with different aspect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Miao , S. Wijeratne , U. Coskun , Y. Zhang , C. N. Lau

Using a tight-binding model, we study one-parameter charge pumping in a one-dimensional system of non-interacting electrons. An oscillating potential is applied at one site while a static potential is applied in a different region. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amit Agarwal , Diptiman Sen

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

During an adiabatic pumping cycle a conventional two barrier quantum device takes an electron from the left lead and ejects it to the right lead. Hence the pumped charge per cycle is naively expected to be $Q \le e$. This zero order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Itamar Sela , Doron Cohen

Recent experiments on nanoscale conductors coupled to microwave cavities put in prospect transport investigations of electron-photon interplay in the deep quantum regime. Here we propose a pump-probe scheme to investigate the transient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. L. van den Berg , C. Bergenfeldt , P. Samuelsson

Relativistic quantum theory of induced scattering of 2D Dirac particles by electrostatic field of impurity ion (in the Born approximation) in the doped graphene at the presence of an external electromagnetic radiation field (actually…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 A. K. Avetissian , A. G. Ghazaryan , Kh. V. Sedrakian , B. R. Avchyan

Time- and angle-resolved photoemission measurements on two doped graphene samples displaying different doping levels reveal remarkable differences in the ultrafast dynamics of the hot carriers in the Dirac cone. In the more strongly…

Since its first isolation in 2004, graphene has been found to host a plethora of unusual electronic transport phenomena, making it a fascinating system for fundamental studies in condensed-matter physics as well as offering tremendous…