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We present a theoretical formulation of the coherent ultrafast nonlinear optical response of a strongly correlated system and discuss an example where the Coulomb correlations dominate. We separate out the correlated contributions to the…

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We study the photoresponse of two-dimensional semi-Dirac semimetals and three-dimensional Dirac semimetals to off-resonant circularly polarized light. For two-dimensional semi-Dirac semimetals we find that incident light does not open a gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Awadhesh Narayan

Subjecting a massive two-dimensional Dirac material to a vortex light beam provides a mechanism for the photo-induction of multiply quantized vortices. Using Floquet theory, we show that electronic vortices, characterized by their total…

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We study the optical properties of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers under the influence of strong out-of-plane magnetic fields, using the effective massive Dirac model. We pay attention to the role of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 G. Catarina , J. Have , J. Fernández-Rossier , N. M. R. Peres

Theory of the Linear photogalvanic effect is developed for direct optical transitions between surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators. The photocurrent governed by the orientation of the polarization plane of light and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 N. V. Leppenen , L. E. Golub

We present a theoretical study of the the effects of off-resonant polarized optical fields on a ferromagnetic model system. We determine the light-induced dynamics of itinerant carriers in a system that includes magnetism at the mean-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-01 Christiane Scholl , Svenja Vollmar , Hans Christian Schneider

Floquet engineering with high-frequency light offers dynamic control over topological phases in quantum materials. While in 3D Dirac systems circularly polarized light is known to induce topological phase transitions via gap opening,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Mohammad Shafiei , Farhad Fazileh , Milorad V. Milošević

Rectified electric current induced by irradiating light, so-called photocurrent, is an established phenomenon in optoelectronic physics. In this paper, we present a comprehensive classification of the photocurrent response arising from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-13 Hikaru Watanabe , Youichi Yanase

An extensive analytical and numerical investigation has been carried out to examine the role played by many-body effects on various $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ materials under an off-resonance optical dressing field. Additionally, we explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We theoretically investigate the electronic and transport properties of a semi-Dirac material under the influence of an external time dependent periodic driving field (irradiation) by means of Floquet theory. We explore the inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 SK Firoz Islam , Arijit Saha

We study the phenomenon of controlling the light by light known as the optical bistability for the two-dimensional tilted Dirac system. Using the Boltzmann approach under relaxation time approximation, we find that the optical bistability…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 Vivek Pandey , Pankaj Bhalla

We propose a method to study the time evolution of correlated electrons driven by an harmonic perturbation. Combining Floquet formalism to include the time-dependent field and Cluster Perturbation Theory to solve the many-body problem in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-19 M. Puviani , F. Manghi

Nonlinear optical responses are often used as a probe for studying electronic properties of materials. For topological materials, studies so far focused on the photogalvanic electric current, which requires breaking inversion symmetry. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-21 Margarita Davydova , Maksym Serbyn , Hiroaki Ishizuka

We show that the inter-band absorption of radiation in a 2D Dirac material leads to a direct electric current flowing at sample edges. The photocurrent originates from the momentum alignment of electrons and holes and is controlled by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 M. V. Durnev , S. A. Tarasenko

Analyzing the scattering and conversion process between photons and phonons coupled via radiation pressure in a circular quantum dot on a honeycomb array of optomechanical cells, we demonstrate the emergence of optomechanical Dirac physics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 Christian Wurl , Holger Fehske

We investigate the effect of an in-plane AC electric field coupled to electrons in the honeycomb lattice and show that it can be used to manipulate the Dirac points of the electronic structure. We find that the position of the Dirac points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Pierre Delplace , Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

We theoretically investigate the ability of free electrons to yield information on the nonlinear Floquet dynamics of atomic systems subject to intense external illumination. By applying a quantum-mechanical formalism to describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Eduardo Arqué López , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

Within the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems, we developed the theory of light-induced modification of electronic states in semiconductor materials described by the Luttinger Hamiltonian (the electronic term $\Gamma_8$).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 O. V. Kibis , M. V. Boev , V. M. Kovalev , I. A. Shelykh

We study nonlinear coupling of mutually incoherent beams associated with different Floquet-Bloch waves in a one-dimensional optically-induced photonic lattice. We demonstrate experimentally how such interactions lead to asymmetric mutual…

Using Floquet-Bloch theory we study the effect of circularly and linearly polarized light on the electronic structure of (LaNiO$_3$)$_2$/(LaAlO$_3$)$_N$ heterostructure grown along the (111) direction. In equilibrium, a tight-binding fit to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 Liang Du , Gregory A. Fiete