Nonadiabatic landau–zener–stückelberg–majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference

V Ivakhnenko, SN Shevchenko, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the pioneering works by Landau, Zener, Stückelberg, and Majorana (LZSM), it has
been known that driving a quantum two-level system results in tunneling between its states …

Adiabaticity parameters for the categorization of light-matter interaction: From weak to strong driving

C Heide, T Boolakee, T Higuchi, P Hommelhoff - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We investigate theoretically and numerically the light-matter interaction in a two-band
system (TBS) as a model system for excitation in a solid-state band structure. We identify five …

Two-level systems with periodic -step driving fields: Exact dynamics and quantum state manipulations

ZC Shi, YH Chen, W Qin, Y **a, XX Yi, SB Zheng… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
In this work, we derive exact solutions of a dynamical equation, which can represent all two-
level Hermitian systems driven by periodic N-step driving fields. For different physical …

Simulating dynamically assisted production of Dirac pairs in gapped graphene monolayers

I Akal, R Egger, C Müller, S Villalba-Chávez - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
In a vicinity of the Fermi surface, graphene layers with bandgaps allow for closely simulating
the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics and, thus, its yet unverified strong-field …

Ab initio study of ultrafast charge dynamics in graphene

QZ Li, P Elliott, JK Dewhurst, S Sharma, S Shallcross - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Monolayer graphene provides an ideal material to explore one of the fundamental light-field
driven interference effects: Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference. However, direct …

Pseudospectral computational methods for the time-dependent Dirac equation in static curved spaces

X Antoine, F Fillion-Gourdeau, E Lorin… - Journal of Computational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pseudospectral numerical schemes for solving the Dirac equation in general static curved
space are derived using a new pseudodifferential representation of the Dirac equation along …

Light-amplified Landau-Zener conductivity in gapped graphene monolayers: A simulacrum of photocatalyzed vacuum instability

S Villalba-Chávez, O Mathiak, R Egger, C Müller - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Interband transitions of electrons in a gapped graphene monolayer are highly stimulated
near the Fermi surface when a high-frequency electric wave of weak intensity and a strong …

Bidirectional residual current in monolayer graphene under few-cycle laser irradiation

X Zhang, E Wu, H Du, H Guo, C Liu - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
By numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation and semiconductor Bloch
equations, the light-induced residual current in monolayer graphene driven by a circularly …

Strong-field Breit-Wheeler pair production in

A Golub, S Villalba-Chávez, C Müller - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The Breit-Wheeler pair production process in 2+ 1 dimensional spacetime is investigated. In
the perturbative regime, nonvanishing rates at the energy threshold are found when odd …

Suppression of multiphoton resonances in driven quantum systems via pulse shape optimization

D Gagnon, F Fillion-Gourdeau, J Dumont, C Lefebvre… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
This Letter demonstrates control over multiphoton absorption processes in driven two-level
systems, which include, for example, superconducting qubits or laser-irradiated graphene …