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Hot electron effects in graphene are significant because of graphene's small electronic heat capacity and weak electron-phonon coupling, yet the dynamics and cooling mechanisms of hot electrons in graphene are not completely understood. We…

Electron-phonon coupling directly determines the stability of cooperative order in solids, including superconductivity, charge and spin density waves. Therefore, the ability to enhance or reduce electron-phonon coupling by optical driving…

Oscillatory magnetoresistance measurements on graphene have revealed a wealth of novel physics. These phenomena are typically studied at low currents. At high currents, electrons are driven far from equilibrium with the atomic lattice…

Magnetic effects at optical frequencies are notoriously weak. This is evidenced by the fact that the magnetic permeability of nearly all materials is unity in the optical frequency range, and that magneto-optical devices (such as Faraday…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mikael C. Rechtsman , Julia M. Zeuner , Andreas Tünnermann , Stefan Nolte , Mordechai Segev , Alexander Szameit

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We review our recent time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments, which measure the transient electronic structure of optically driven graphene. For pump photon energies in the near infrared…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-10 Isabella Gierz , Andrea Cavalleri

Recent experiments demonstrated that proton transport through graphene electrodes can be accelerated by over an order of magnitude with low intensity illumination. Here we show that this photo-effect can be suppressed for a tuneable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 S. Huang , E. Griffin , J. Cai , B. Xin , J. Tong , Y. Fu , V. Kravets , F. M. Peeters , M. Lozada-Hidalgo

Based on the quantum master equation approach, the nonlinear electric conductivity of graphene is investigated under static electric fields for various chemical potential shifts. The simulation results show that, as the field strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Shunsuke A. Sato , Angel Rubio

Processes involving ultrafast laser driven electron-phonon dynamics play a fundamental role in the response of quantum systems in a growing number of situations of interest, as evidenced by phenomena such as strongly driven phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Kevin Lively , Shunsuke A. Sato , Guillermo Albareda , Angel Rubio , Aaron Kelly

Saturable absorption is a non-perturbative nonlinear optical phenomenon that plays a pivotal role in the generation of ultrafast light pulses. Here we show that this effect emerges in graphene at unprecedentedly low light intensities, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 A. Marini , J. D. Cox , F. J. Garcia de Abajo

Photon-assisted charge transport through a double barrier laser structure, separated by a region assisted by a magnetic field, is studied. Employing Floquet theory and matrix formalism, the transmission probabilities for the central band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Abdelhadi Bahaoui , Ahmed Jellal

A far-reaching goal of graphene research is exploiting the unique properties of carriers to realize extreme nonclassical electronic transport. Of particular interest is harnessing wavelike carriers to guide and direct them on submicron…

Using the Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg-Majorana-type (LZSM) semiclassical approach, we study both graphene and a thin film of a Weyl semimetal subjected to a strong AC electromagnetic field. The spectrum of quasi energies in the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , Franco Nori

Under strong laser fields, electrons in solids radiate high-harmonic fields by travelling through quantum pathways in Bloch bands in the sub-laser-cycle timescales. Understanding these pathways in the momentum space through the…

The nonlinear optical and optoelectronic properties of graphene with the emphasis on the processes of harmonic generation, frequency mixing, photon drag and photogalvanic effects as well as generation of photocurrents due to coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 M. M. Glazov , S. D. Ganichev

In the quest for better energy storage solutions, the role of designing effective electrodes is crucial. Previous research has shown that using materials like single-side fluorinated graphene can improve the stability of ion insertion in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-28 Yu-Hsiu Lin , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

The Dirac-like quasiparticles in honeycomb graphene lattice are taken to possess a non-zero effective mass. The charge carriers involve to interact with a femtosecond strong laser pulse. Due to the scattering time of electrons in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Z. Ahmadi , H. Goudarzi , A. Jafari

The $\pi$-electronic structure of graphene in the presence of a modulated electric potential is investigated by the tight-binding model. The low-energy electronic properties are strongly affected by the period and field strength. Such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Ho , Y. H. Chiu , S. J. Tsai , M. F. Lin

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene displays the occurrence of a magnetic surface state at low temperatures. Recent angular resolved photoemission experiments demonstrate the robustness of the magnetic state in long sequences of ABC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Jacopo Baima , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra

Graphene-metal compound structure has been reported as a novel and outstanding component used in electrical and optical devices. We report on a first-principles study of graphene-cu compound structure, showing its capacity of converting…

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 Wenbin Gong