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We demonstrate a photonic analog of twisted bilayer graphene that has ultra-flat photonic bands and exhibits extreme slow light behavior. Our twisted bilayer photonic device, which has an operating wavelength in C-band of the telecom…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-26 Haoning Tang , Fan Du , Stephen Carr , Clayton DeVault , Olivia Mello , Eric Mazur

We review recent developments in the research of nonlinear and nonequilibrium phenomena in solids focusing on their geometrical aspects. We start with introducing the basic concepts of geometrical phases of Bloch electrons and Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Takahiro Morimoto , Sota Kitamura , Naoto Nagaosa

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…

The principle of transformation optics has been applied to various wave phenomena (e.g., optics, electromagnetics, acoustics and thermodynamics). Recently, metamaterial devices manipulating dc currents have received increasing attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-10 Tiancheng Han , Huapeng Ye , Yu Luo , Swee Ping Yeo , Jinghua Teng , Shuang Zhang , Cheng-Wei Qiu

It is commonly assumed that photocurrent in two-dimensional systems with centrosymmetric lattice is generated at structural inhomogenities, such as p-n junctions. Here, we study an alternative mechanism of photocurrent generation associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Vladimir Silkin , Dmitry Svintsov

Finding materials exhibiting substantial shift current holds the potential for designing shift current-based photovoltaics that outperform conventional solar cells. However, the myriad of factors governing shift current response poses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Sihan Chen , Swati Chaudhary , Gil Refael , Cyprian Lewandowski

Unlocking the vast potential of optical sensing technology has long been hindered by the challenges of achieving fast, sensitive, and broadband photodetection at ambient temperatures. In this review, we summarize recent progress in the…

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Photogalvanic effect (PGE) occurring in noncentrosymmetric materials enables the generation of the open-circuit voltage that is much larger than the bandgap, making it rather attractive in solar cells. However, the magnitude of the PGE…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Juan Zhao , Yibin Hu , Yiqun Xie , Lei Zhang , Yin Wang

Twisted bilayered graphenes at magic angles are systems housing long ranged periodicity of Moir\'e pattern together with short ranged periodicity associated with the individual graphenes. Such materials are a fertile ground for novel states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Dai-Nam Le , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Lilia M. Woods

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 technique for solving the quantum transport problem of a few photons through a one-dimensional, strongly nonlinear waveguide. We specifically consider the situation where the evolution of the optical field is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Mohammad Hafezi , Darrick Chang , Vladimir Gritsev , Eugene Demler , Mikhail Lukin

Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene shows a wide range of correlated phases which are electrostatically tunable. Despite a growing knowledge of the material, there is yet no consensus on the microscopic mechanisms driving its…

While a typical material exhibits field induced currents only at the boundary, a uniform out-of-plane magnetic field applied to two mutually rotated layers of graphene is shown to result in an ordered array of permanent current loops…

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Twisted bilayer two-dimensional electronic systems give rise to many exotic phenomena and unveil a new frontier for the study of quantum materials. In photonics, twisted two-dimensional systems coupled via near-field interactions offer a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Rongqian Wang , Jincheng Lu , Xiaohu Wu , Jiebin Peng , Jian-Hua Jiang

Identifying the microscopic processes that limit conductivity is essential for understanding correlated and quantum-critical states in quantum materials. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and other twist-controlled materials, the…

A directional photon-assisted resonant chiral tunneling through a bilayer graphene barrier is considered. An external electromagnetic field applied to the barrier switches the transparency $T$ in the longitudinal direction from its steady…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-10 S. E. Shafranjuk

Nonlinear photocurrent in time-reversal invariant noncentrosymmetric systems have attracted substantial interest. Here we propose two new types of second-order nonlinear direct photocurrent as the counterpart of normal shift photocurrent…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-02 Hua Wang , Xiaofeng Qian

The bulk photovoltaic effect is an experimentally verified phenomenon by which a direct charge current is induced within a non-centrosymmetric material by light illumination. Calculations of its intrinsic contribution, the shift current,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-21 M. A. García-Blázquez , J. J. Esteve-Paredes , A. J. Uría , J. J. Palacios

This paper explores the interplay of momentum transfer and nonlinear optical processes through moir\'e phenomena. Momentum transfer plays a crucial role in the interaction between photons and matter. Here, we study stacked metasurfaces with…