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We propose a novel nonlinear dynamical Hall effect characteristic of layered materials with chiral symmetry, which is driven by the joint action of in-plane and time variation of out-of-plane ac fields…

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We study theoretically interaction of a bilayer graphene with a circularly polarized ultrafast optical pulse of a single oscillation at an oblique incidence. The normal component of the pulse breaks the inversion symmetry of the system and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Pardeep Kumar , Thakshila M. Herath , Vadym Apalkov

Recent experiments have measured local uniaxial strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Our calculations found that the finite Berry curvature generated by breaking the sublattice symmetry and the band proximity between narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Pierre A. Pantaleón , Tony Low , Francisco Guinea

We investigate imaging of moire structures in free-standing twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) carried out by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in diffraction and in-line Gabor holography modes. Electron diffraction patterns of TBG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

We uncover a new origin of the planar Hall effect - as an intrinsic property of layer coherent electrons - that exists even in bilayer and trilayer atomically thin limit. It reforms the existing theories requiring three-dimensional orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Huiyuan Zheng , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

Thanks to the strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI), HgTe-based quantum wells (QWs) exhibit very rich spin-related properties. But the full descriptions of them are beyond the simple parabolic band models and conventional Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Jun Li , Wen Yang , Jiang-Tao Liu , Wei Huang , Cheng Li , Song-Yan Chen

We consider the reflection of a photon by a two-level system in a quasi-one-dimensional waveguide. This is important in part because it forms the backdrop for more complicated proposals where many emitters are coupled to the waveguide:…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Ben Lang , Edmund Harbord , Ruth Oulton

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…

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG), chiral tunneling can be tuned by parameters such as the twist angle, barrier height, and Fermi energy. This differs from the tunneling behavior observed in monolayer and Bernal bilayer graphene, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Nadia Benlakhouy , El Mustapha Feddi , Abdelouahed El Fatimy

We study the circular birefringence experienced by linearly polarised photons colliding with a circularly polarised background creating a vacuum of definite chirality (handedness). For this scenario the standard Heisenberg-Euler approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 T. Heinzl , B. King , A. Mercuri-Baron

A charged particle whose energy is less than the electric potential step it is incident upon, is expected to undergo partial reflection and transmission. In bilayer graphene, however, a potential step in the form of an antisymmetric kink…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 J. C. Martinez , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

We report on the circular and linear photogalvanic effects caused by free-carrier absorption of terahertz radiation in electron channels on (001)-oriented and miscut silicon surfaces. The photocurrent behavior upon variation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Karch , S. A. Tarasenko , P. Olbrich , T. Schönberger , C. Reitmaier , D. Plohmann , Z. D. Kvon , S. D. Ganichev

We theoretically investigated the Floquet states of bilayer graphene heterostructure under the irradiation by horizontally incident circular polarized light. The in-plane and out-of-plane electric field of the light periodically perturbs…

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The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) converts light into a coherent dc current at zero bias, through what is commonly known as the shift current. This current has previously been attributed to the displacement of the electronic wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

Recently, moir\'e engineering has been extensively employed for creating and studying novel electronic materials in two dimensions. However, its application in nanophotonic systems has not been widely explored so far. Here, we demonstrate…

We report on the observation of photogalvanic effects induced by terahertz radiation in type-II GaSb/InAs quantum wells with inverted band order. Photocurrents are excited at oblique incidence of radiation and consists of several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 H. Plank , S. A. Tarasenko , T. Hummel , G. Knebl , P. Pfeffer , M. Kamp , S. Höfling , S. D. Ganichev

An appearance of a direct current perpendicularly to a constant component of an electric field in material with Rashba Hamiltonian under the influence of an elliptically polarized wave is investigated in one-subband approximation. On its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-07 V. I. Konchenkov , S. V. Kryuchkov , D. V. Zav'yalov

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) samples we study, both analytically and numerically, the effects of circularly polarized light propagating in free space and confined into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

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