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Structurally chiral materials hosting multifold fermions with large topological number have attracted considerable attention because of their naturally long surface Fermi arcs and bulk quantized circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE).…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-25 Yang Zhang , Fernando de Juan , Adolfo G. Grushin , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

Photovoltaic Hall effect, i.e., generation of a photocurrent perpendicular to the bias electric field, is an interesting platform of Berry curvature engineering by external fields. Floquet engineering aims at generation of light-induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-04 Yuta Murotani , Tomohiro Fujimoto , Ryusuke Matsunaga

We propose a scheme for the generation of photocurrent in bent quantum wires. We calculate the current using a generalized Landauer-Buttiker approach that takes into account the electromagnetic radiation. For circularly polarized light, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. V. Pershin , C. Piermarocchi

The well-known Kerr effect in isotropic fluids consists in the appearance of uniaxial orientational order and birefringence that grows as the square of the applied electric field. We predict and observe that at a high electric field, the…

Nonequilibrium systems driven by external energy sources host unexplored physics; yet phase transitions beyond thermal equilibrium remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate that electric current induces structural phase transitions in…

Active regions (ARs) often possess an observed net electric current in a single magnetic polarity. We show that such "non-neutralized" currents can arise from a geometric projection effect when a twisted flux tube obliquely intersects the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Xudong Sun , Mark C. M. Cheung

Most field theories for active matter neglect effects of memory and inertia. However, recent experiments have found inertial delay to be important for the motion of self-propelled particles. A major challenge in the theoretical description…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-15 Michael te Vrugt , Julian Jeggle , Raphael Wittkowski

Kinetic diffusion of cosmic rays ahead of perpendicular shocks induces charge non-neutrality, which is mostly, yet not completely, screened by the bulk plasma via polarization drift current. Hydrodynamic shear instabilities as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Maxim Lyutikov

The transient electric current of surfactants dissolved in a nonpolar solvent is investigated both experimentally and theoretically in the parallel-plate geometry. Due to a low concentration of free charges the cell can be completely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Pavel Kornilovitch , Yoocharn Jeon

In this paper, we see a strong effect of the injected current on the light emission from the polariton condensate in an n-i-n structure, when we monitor the luminescence intensity under applied bias at various pump powers. We present here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Burcu Ozden , David M. Myers , Mark Steger , Ken West , Loren Pfeiffer , David W. Snoke

We show that recently observed DC currents produced by below-the-bandgap femtosecond pulses [1] can be explained as nonlinear optical effects based on multi-photon quantum interference and creation of an asymmetric distribution of virtual…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-06 Jacob B. Khurgin

We investigate the photocurrent induced by bicircular light (BCL) in materials, with a focus on its multi-state geometric nature. BCL, a combination of left- and right-circularly polarized light, can generate both injection and shift…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-06 Zhichao Guo , Zhuocheng Lu , Hua Wang , Kai Chang

We study nonlinear hydrodynamic electron transport driven by an AC electric field. In noncentrosymmetric conductors with broken time-reversal (TR) symmetry the nonlinear flow of such liquids is nonreciprocal, giving rise to a DC current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 E. Kirkinis , L. Bonds , A. Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

We show that a conformal anomaly in Weyl/Dirac semimetals generates a bulk electric current perpendicular to a temperature gradient and the direction of a background magnetic field. The associated conductivity of this novel contribution to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-17 M. N. Chernodub , A. Cortijo , M. A. H. Vozmediano

The anomalous hysteresis is reported in photo current density-voltage (J-V) curves of perovskite solar cells. The origins responsible for hysteresis are primarily attributed to ferroelectricity, trapping/de-trapping, and ions migration.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-25 Zeguo Tang , Takashi Minemoto

The equivalent circuit simulation of random resistors-capacitors (R-C) net, modified to include large capacitors interfacing between the random R-C bulk and the electrode surface, shows an enhancement of 3 orders of magnitude of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-21 B. Vainas

In the circular photogalvanic effect, circularly polarized light can produce a direct electron photocurrent in metals and the direction of the current depends on the polarization. We suggest that an analogous nonlinear effect exists for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Igor Proskurin , Alexander S. Ovchinnikov , Jun-ichiro Kishine , Robert L. Stamps

We discovered that when circularly polarized light is obliquely incident on a two-dimensional metallic photonic crystal slabs, electrical voltage is induced perpendicularly to the incident plane. Signal sign is reversed by changing the…

Perturbation theory is an indispensable tool in quantum mechanics and electrodynamics that handles weak effects on particle motion or fields. However, its extension to plasmons involving complex motion of {\it both} particles and fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

We investigate photovoltaic effect of atomtronics induced by artificial gauge field in four optical potentials. Effective magnetic flux gives rise to polarization of atom occupation probability which creates current of atomtronics. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Wenxi Lai , Yuquan Ma , W. M. Liu