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We present a practical scheme to separate the contributions of the electric quadrupole-like and the magnetic dipole-like effects to the forbidden second order optical nonlinear response of graphene, and give analytic expressions for the…
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Nonlinear processes are at the core of many optical technologies including lasers, information processing, sensing, and security, and require optimised materials suitable for nanoscale integration. Here we demonstrate the emergence of a…
Generation of second-harmonic waves is one of the universal nonlinear phenomena that have found numerous technical applications in many modern technologies, in particular, in photonics. This phenomenon also has great potential in the field…
This theoretical paper offers an explicit expression for the binding energy of excitons in a two-dimensional semiconductor with a flat valence band. The formula has been derived quasiclassically assuming that the exciton is tightly bound;…
We theoretically analyze a quasi-two-dimensional system of fermionic polar molecules in a harmonic transverse confining potential. The renormalized energy bands are calculated by solving the Hartree-Fock equation numerically for various…
In a recent Letter, Dornheim et al. [PRL 125, 085001 (2020)] have investigated the nonlinear density response of the uniform electron gas in the warm dense matter regime. More specifically, they have studied the cubic response function at…
Motivated by the recent experimental progress in studying conventional and unconventional superconductors in a pump-probe setup, we perform a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the nonlinear response of a diffusive BCS conventional…