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Here we present an all-optical plasmon coupling scheme, utilising the intrinsic nonlinear optical response of graphene. We demonstrate coupling of free-space, visible light pulses to the surface plasmons in a planar, un-patterned graphene…

The Dirac point with a double-cone structure for optical fields, an optical analogy Dirac fermions in graphene, can be realized in optically homogenous metamaterials. The condition for the realization of Dirac point in optical systems is…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Li-Gang Wang , Zhi-Guo Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

We show that if the solutions to the (2+1)-dimensional massless Dirac equation for a given 1D potential are known, then they can be used to obtain the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for the same potential, orientated at an arbitrary angle,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 R. A. Ng , A. Wild , M. E. Portnoi , R. R. Hartmann

The process of coherent creation of particle - hole excitations by an electric field in graphene is quantitatively described. We calculate the evolution of current density, number of pairs and energy after switching on the electric field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Lewkowicz , B. Rosenstein

For centrosymmetric materials such as monolayer graphene, no optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is generally expected because it is forbidden under the electric-dipole approximation. Yet we observed a strong, doping induced SHG from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Yu Zhang , Di Huang , Yuwei Shan , Tao Jiang , Zhihong Zhang , Kaihui Liu , Lei Shi , Jinluo Cheng , John E. Sipe , Wei-Tao Liu , Shiwei Wu

The adhesion of graphene on slightly lattice-mismatched surfaces, for instance of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) or Ir(111), gives rise to a complex landscape of sublattice symmetry-breaking potentials for the Dirac fermions. Whereas a gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Carmine Ortix , Liping Yang , Jeroen van den Brink

We develop a theory for the long-wavelength plasma oscillation of a collection of charged massless Dirac particles in a solid, as occurring for example in doped graphene layers, interacting via the long-range Coulomb interaction. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

We consider a model of Dirac fermions coupled to flexural phonons to describe a graphene sheet fluctuating in dimension $2+d$. We derive the self-consistent screening equations for the quantum problem, exact in the limit of large $d$. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Francisco Guinea , Pierre Le Doussal , Kay Joerg Wiese

A mathematical formulation for particle states and electronic properties of a curved graphene sheet is provided, exploiting a massless Dirac spectrum description for charge carriers living in a curved bidimensional background. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-11 Antonio Gallerati

We develop a general hydrodynamic framework for computing direct current thermal and electric transport in a strongly interacting finite temperature quantum system near a Lorentz-invariant quantum critical point. Our framework is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 Andrew Lucas , Jesse Crossno , Kin Chung Fong , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev

Photoemission studies of graphene have resulted in a long-standing controversy concerning the strength of the experimental electron-phonon interaction in comparison with theoretical calculations. Using high-resolution angle-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 David A. Siegel , Choongyu Hwang , Alexi V. Fedorov , Alessandra Lanzara

Exact solutions are presented of the Dirac equation of a charged particle moving in a classical monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave in a medium of index of refraction n < 1. The found solutions are expressed in terms of new complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 Sandor Varro

Response of electronic systems in intense lights (AC electric fields) to DC source-drain fields is formulated with the Floquet method. We have then applied the formalism to graphene, for which we show that a non-linear effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Oka , Hideo Aoki

We report on infrared (IR) nanoscopy of 2D plasmon excitations of Dirac fermions in graphene. This is achieved by confining mid-IR radiation at the apex of a nanoscale tip: an approach yielding two orders of magnitude increase in the value…

We present a semiclassical theory of linear and nonlinear optical response of graphene. The emphasis is placed on the nonlinear optical response of graphene from the standpoint of the underlying chiral symmetry. The Bloch quasiparticles in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Behrooz Semnani , Amir Hamed Majedi , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

The electronic properties of graphene may be changed from semimetallic to semiconducting by introducing perforations (antidots) in a periodic pattern. The properties of such graphene antidot lattices (GALs) have previously been studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 S. J. Brun , M. R. Thomsen , T. G. Pedersen

Electron interactions in undoped bilayer graphene lead to instability of the gapless state, `which-layer' symmetry breaking, and energy gap opening at the Dirac point. In contrast to single layer graphene, the bilayer system exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

A study of the formation of excitons as a problem of two Dirac particles in a gapped graphene layer and in two gapped graphene layers separated by a dielectric is presented. In the low energy limit the separation of the center-of-mass and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 O. L. Berman , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , K. Ziegler

The paper reports a theoretical study of scattering of electrons by edges in graphene and its effect on Raman scattering. First, effective models are discussed for translationally invariant and rough edges. Second, they are used in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-28 D. M. Basko

We study the role of long-range electron-electron interactions in a system of two-dimensional anisotropic Dirac fermions, which naturally appear in uniaxially strained graphene, graphene in external potentials, some strongly anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto