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The optical properties of two-dimensional materials are exceptional in several respects. They are highly anisotropic and frequently dominated by excitonic effects. Dipole-allowed second order non-linear optical properties require broken…
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Although massless Dirac fermions in graphene constitute a centrosymmetric medium for in-plane excitations, their second-order nonlinear optical response is nonzero if the effects of spatial dispersion are taken into account. Here we present…
Nonlinear processes are at the core of many optical technologies including lasers, information processing, sensing, and security, and require optimised materials suitable for nanoscale integration. Here we demonstrate the emergence of a…
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We report on the study of the non-trivial Berry phase in superconducting multiterminal quantum dots biased at commensurate voltages. Starting with the time-periodic Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations, we obtain a tight binding model in the…
The emergence of a rectified steady-state supercurrent as a response to the photoexcited current of the quasiparticles constitutes the concept of a superconducting photodiode. This phenomenon occurs in a two-dimensional thin superconducting…
Excitonic effects in the linear optical response of semiconductors are well-known and the subject of countless experimental and theoretical studies. For the technologically important second order nonlinear response, however, description of…
Nonlinear responses in condensed matters attract recent intensive interest because they provide rich information about the materials and hold the possibility of being applied in diodes or high-frequency optical devices. Nonlinear responses…
We investigate second-order nonlinear processes in a system of two coupled identical optical micro-resonators. The double resonance and phase-matching conditions are simultaneously obtained thanks to the frequency splitting induced by the…
Recent theoretical studies on the nonlinear response of spin and orbital degrees of freedom have discovered spin and orbital analogs of the photocurrent, with potential for characterizing topological materials and for applications. In this…
Time-reversal invariant superconductors in three dimensions may contain nodal lines in the Brillouin zone, which behave exactly as Wilson loops of 3d momentum-space Chern-Simons theory of the Berry connection. Here we study the conditions…
We present a full formalism for the calculation of the linear and second-order optical response for semiconductors and insulators. The expressions for the optical susceptibilities are derived within perturbation theory. As a starting point…
In a time-reversal invariant system, while the anomalous Hall effect identically vanishes in the linear response regime due to the constraint of time-reversal symmetry on the distribution of Berry curvature, a nonlinear Hall effect can…