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We employ a rotating frame of reference to elucidate high-harmonic generation of circularly polarized light by bicircular driving fields. In particular, we show how the experimentally observed circular components of the high-harmonic…

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We investigate the process of circularly polarized high harmonic generation in molecules using a bicircular laser field. In this context, we show that molecules offer a very robust framework for the production of circularly polarized…

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The manipulation of solid states using intense infrared or terahertz light fields is a pivotal area in contemporary ultrafast photonics research. While conventional circular polarization has been well explored, the potential of…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-08 Kotaro Ogawa , Natsuki Kanda , Yuta Murotani , Ryusuke Matsunaga

Optical injection and detection of charge currents can complement conventional transport and photoemission measurements without the necessity of invasive contact that may disturb the system being examined. This is a particular concern for…

The bulk photovoltaic effect is a photocurrent generation from alternating electric field, which is a promising candidate for future efficient solar cell technology. It is the second-order optical current, which is the injection current or…

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Nonlinear photocurrent carriers in conjugated polymers, such as polarons, bipolarons and solitons, are considered at low photon energies where a tunnelling process is necessary. We show that polarons usually dominate the photocurrent I due…

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Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal materials have been intensively explored for multiple optoelectronic applications such as spin current generation, all-optical valleytronics, and topological electronics. In the realm of strong-field and…

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We show that the driving field of circularly polarized light (CPL) can be used to enhance and reverse the spin current generated in the spin Hall effect for some transition-metal dichalcogenides. This is demonstrated by analyzing the…

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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) constitute a promising platform for symmetry-engineered responses to circularly polarized light. The high crystal symmetry of centrosymmetric 2H-phase TMDCs inherently forbids the circular…

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It is shown that the free-carrier (Drude) absorption of circularly polarized radiation in quantum well structures leads to an electric current flow. The photocurrent reverses its direction upon switching the light helicity. A pure orbital…

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The steady current induced by electromagnetic field in a 2D system with asymmetric scatterers is studied. The scatterers are assumed to be oriented cuts with one diffusive and another specular sides. Besides, the existence of isotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

The interplay between crystal symmetry and its optical responses is at the heart of tremendous recent advances in light-matter interactions and applications. Nonlinear optical processes that produce electric currents, for example bulk…

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Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is a method where randomly oriented chiral molecules are photoionized due to irradiation by circularly-polarized lasers, yielding large chiral signals in the photoelectron momentum distribution.…

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We propose how to create and manipulate one-way nonclassical light via photon blockade in rotating nonlinear devices. We refer to this effect as nonreciprocal photon blockade (PB). Specifically, we show that in a spinning Kerr resonator, PB…

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The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) refers to the direct current generation in a noncentrosymmetric material under illumination and can be applied to solar energy technology. BPVE includes injection and shift currents, led by the change of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Bo-Xin Lin , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu

Theory of light absorption and circular photocurrent in Weyl semimetals is developed for arbitrary large light intensities with account for both elastic and inelastic relaxation processes of Weyl fermions. The direct optical transition rate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 N. V. Leppenen , E. L. Ivchenko , L. E. Golub

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) generates a direct current photocurrent under uniform irradiation and is a nonlinear optical effect traditionally studied in non-centrosymmetric materials. The two main origins of BPVE are the shift and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Ying-Ming Xie , Naoto Nagaosa

We propose that a large and tunable valley-selective Hall effect can be realized in a centrosymmetric system via light-induced breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetries. This is demonstrated in graphene driven by bicircularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Naoya Arakawa , Kenji Yonemitsu

The Weyl semimetal exhibits various interesting physical phenomena because of the Weyl points, i.e., linear band-crossings. We show by Floquet theory that a linearly polarized light applied to a band insulator can induce controllable Weyl…

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