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Shift current is a DC current generated from nonlinear light-matter interaction in a non-centrosymmetric crystal and is considered a promising candidate for next generation photovoltaic devices. The mechanism for shift currents in real…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-17 Y. -H. Chan , Diana Y. Qiu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Steven G. Louie

The bulk photovoltaic effect is an example of a non-linear optical response that leads to a DC current that is relevant for photo-voltaic applications. In this work, we theoretically study this effect in the presence of electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Tamoghna Barik , Jay D. Sau

Enhancing light-matter interactions with photonic structures is critical in classical and quantum nanophotonics. Recently, Moir\'e twisted bilayer optical materials have been proposed as a promising means towards a tunable and controllable…

Ultrafast photon-assisted tunneling is shown to lead to large nonlinear dynamic currents that can be used to generate dc rectified current as well as higher order harmonic response from a metasurface-coupled tunnel diode. This artificial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Paul S Davids , Erik Anderson , Jared Kirsch , Joshua Shank

This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In presence of effective photon-photon interactions induced by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-25 Iacopo Carusotto , Cristiano Ciuti

We theoretically study the transmission of few-photon quantum fields through a strongly nonlinear optical medium. We develop a general approach to investigate non-equilibrium quantum transport of bosonic fields through a finite-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Mohammad Hafezi , Darrick E. Chang , Vladimir Gritsev , Eugene Demler , Mikhail D. Lukin

In addition to a plethora of emergent phenomena, the spatial topology of optical vortices enables an array of applications spanning communications to quantum photonics. Nonlinear optics is essential in this context, providing access to an…

This study theoretically investigates the contact conductance in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), providing a theoretical explanation for recent experimental observations from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and conductive atomic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Kevin J. U. Vidarte , Caio Lewenkopf , F. Crasto de Lima , R. Hiroki Miwa , Felipe Pérez Riffo , Eric Suárez Morell

Much efforts are devoted to material structuring in a quest to enhance the photovoltaic effect. We show that structuring light in a way it transfers orbital angular momentum to semiconductor-based rings results in a steady charge…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-24 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

The mechanisms of optical activity and quantum transport of twisted bilayer graphene are studied. The formation of unique electron states in the bilayer systems is studied using an effective continuum model. Such states are shown to support…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 S. Ta Ho , V. Nam Do

Nonlinear optical frequency conversion, where optical fields interact with a nonlinear medium to generate new frequencies, is a key phenomenon in modern photonic systems. However, a major challenge with these techniques lies in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Simone Grillo , Elena Cannuccia , Maurizia Palummo , Olivia Pulci , Claudio Attaccalite

It is observed experimentally that the sign of the Hall resistance can be flipped by a dc electric current in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at 3/4 filling of the four-fold degenerate conduction flat bands. The experiment implies a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-25 Ying Su , Shi-Zeng Lin

The nonlinear optical and optoelectronic properties of graphene with the emphasis on the processes of harmonic generation, frequency mixing, photon drag and photogalvanic effects as well as generation of photocurrents due to coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 M. M. Glazov , S. D. Ganichev

Moir\'e superlattices engineer band properties and enable observation of fractal energy spectra of Hofstadter butterfly. Recently, correlated-electron physics hosted by flat bands in small-angle moir\'e systems has been at the foreground.…

Recent studies have shown that moir\'{e} flat bands in a twisted bilayer graphene(TBG) can acquire nontrivial Berry curvatures when aligned with hexagonal boron nitride substrate [1, 2], which can be manifested as a correlated Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Cheng-Ping Zhang , Jiewen Xiao , Benjamin T. Zhou , Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , Binghai Yan , K. T. Law

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MtBLG) has proven to be an extremely promising new platform to realize and study a host of emergent quantum phases arising from the strong correlations in its narrow bandwidth flat band. In this regard,…

We propose the use of weakly nonlinear passive materials for prospective applications in integrated quantum photonics. It is shown that strong enhancement of native optical nonlinearities by electromagnetic field confinement in photonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Ferretti , V. Savona , D. Gerace

Since their discovery, graphene-based systems represent an exceptional playground to explore the emergence of peculiar quantum effects. The present paper focuses on the anomalous appearence of strong infrared phonon resonances in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 E. Cappelluti , L. Benfatto , M. Manzardo , A. B. Kuzmenko

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge

Quantum geometry is a well-established framework for understanding transport and optical responses in quantum materials. In this work, I study the photon drag effect in Dirac electrons using the quantum geometric interpretation of…

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