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We show that graphene possesses a strong nonlinear optical response in the form of multi-plasmon absorption, with exciting implications in classical and quantum nonlinear optics. Specifically, we predict that graphene nano-ribbons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Marinko Jablan , Darrick E. Chang

Plasmonics takes advantage of the collective response of electrons to electromagnetic waves, enabling dramatic scaling of optical devices beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we demonstrate the mid-infrared (4 to 15 microns) plasmons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Hugen Yan , Tony Low , Wenjuan Zhu , Yanqing Wu , Marcus Freitag , Xuesong Li , Francisco Guinea , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

The recent experimental discovery of ${\rm Cd_3 As_2}$ and ${\rm Na_3 Bi}$ Dirac semimetals enables the study of the properties of chiral quasi-particles in three spatial dimensions. As demonstrated by photoemission, Dirac semimetals are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Robert D. Pisarski , Ho-Ung Yee

The interaction between electrons and plasmons in trilayer graphene is investigated within the Overhauser approach resulting in the 'plasmaron' quasi-particle. This interaction is cast into a field theoretical problem, nd its effect on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 P. M. Krstajić , B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

We point out that plasmons in doped graphene simultaneously enable low-losses and significant wave localization for frequencies below that of the optical phonon branch $\hbar\omega_{Oph}\approx 0.2$ eV. Large plasmon losses occur in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marinko Jablan , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

A back action from Dirac electrons in graphene on the hybridization of radiative and evanescent fields is found as an analogy to Newton's third law. Here, the back action appears as a localized polarization field which greatly modifies an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Wei Pan , A. A. Maradudin

Relativistic fermionic systems have physical quantities calculated by well stablished quantum electrodynamic prescriptions. In the last few years there has been an enormous interest in condensed matter systems in which the fermions exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Heron Caldas

We consider the classical motion of a massless quasi-particle in a magnetic field and under a weak electromagnetic radiation with the frequency $\omega$. Due to the non-parabolic, linear energy dispersion, the particle responds not only at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-16 S. A. Mikhailov

Boundaries and edges of a two dimensional system lower its symmetry and are usually regarded, from the point of view of charge transport, as imperfections. Here we present a first study of the behavior of graphene plasmons in a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Hugen Yan , Zhiqiang Li , Xuesong Li , Wenjuan Zhu , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

Cyclotron resonance in highly doped graphene has been explored using infrared magnetotransmission. Contrary to previous work, which only focused on the magneto-optical properties of graphene in the quantum regime, here we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 A. M. Witowski , M. Orlita , R. Stepniewski , A. Wysmolek , J. M. Baranowski , W. Strupinski , C. Faugeras , G. Martinez , M. Potemski

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Plasmon are collective oscillations of mobile electrons with dynamics controlled by their charge stiffness("Drude weight"). Using terahertz spacetime metrology, we probe Plasmon dynamics of mono- and bi-layer graphene. In both systems, the…

Graphene is a recently discovered carbon based material with unique physical properties. This is a monolayer of graphite, and the two-dimensional electrons and holes in it are described by the effective Dirac equation with a vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Mikhailov , K. Ziegler

Plasmon in graphene possesses many unique properties. It originates from the collective motion of massless Dirac fermions and the carrier density dependence is distinctively different from conventional plasmons. In addition, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Shenyang Huang , Chaoyu Song , Guowei Zhang , Hugen Yan

A self-consistent theory involving Maxwell equations and a density-matrix linear-response theory is solved for an electromagnetically-coupled doped graphene micro-ribbon array and a quantum-well electron gas sitting at an interface between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak

We analyze intrinsic nonlinearities in two-dimensional polaritonic materials interacting with an optical wave. Focusing on the case of graphene, we show that the second-order nonlinear optical conductivity due to carrier density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Christian Wolff , Christos Tserkezis , N. Asger Mortensen

This article provides a pedagogical review on Klein tunneling in graphene, i.e. the peculiar tunneling properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons. We consider two simple situations in detail: a massless Dirac electron incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 P. E. Allain , J. N. Fuchs

The collective excitation of surface plasmons in a massless Dirac plasma (e.g., graphene) half-space (bounded by air) is investigated using a relativistic quantum fluid model. The unique features of such surface waves are discussed and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 M. Shahmansouri , R. Aboltaman , A. P. Misra

The quasiparticle dynamics of the sheet plasmons in epitaxially grown graphene layers on SiC(0001) have been studied systematically as a function of temperature, intrinsic defects, influence of multilayers and carrier density. The opening…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-08-06 C. Tegenkamp , H. Pfnuer , T. Langer , J. Baringhaus , H. W. Schumacher

Recent experiments have proven that the quasiparticles in graphene obey a Dirac equation. Here we show that microwaves are an excellent probe of their unusual dynamics. When the chemical potential is small the intraband response can exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov , J. P. Carbotte